What we did.

Pixels + People delivered the digital spider, the title sequence, and around 230 VFX shots across the series, covering compositing, clean-up and integration work.

The spider itself was designed, modelled and rigged in-house, then brought to life by a team of animators. The look took cues from Celtic and Welsh decorative traditions — porcelain-pale form with hand-painted gold filigree across the legs and body — giving it a presence that felt mythical rather than monstrous, more relic than creature. The brief was a character that could carry mystery and warmth in equal measure, and sit believably alongside child actors in real environments.

The full-CG title sequence set the tone for the series, while the bulk of the shot work involved integrating the spider into live action plates using Nuke — getting the lighting, contact shadows and depth-of-field to match each setup so the creature held up under close scrutiny. Clean-up work ran throughout, from rig and wire removal to subtler environment fixes.

Scaling the team up to handle the shot count meant building a pipeline that could move the spider through multiple animators and comp artists without losing consistency in performance or look. With a young audience and a much-loved source novel, the bar for the creature was high — it needed to feel real enough to believe in and special enough to remember.