Root Spider - Procedural Animation with Houdini

Worked on a personal project this past weekend, trying to replicate this procedural animation from Blender, in Houdini:
https://twitter.com/Bbbn192/status/1532405743047135233?s=20&t=O3XzAWGeRC7yK2onqBkaWg

Breakdown below!

This project turned into a fun experiment with organic procedural based animation. The end of the video demonstrates the low latency and simplicity of moving the spider with a single controller.

Screenshots of nodegraphs! this isn’t really a tutorial (yet) but just a demonstration of how simple this graph can be.