Lucas the Spider

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About

Lucas the Spider is a series of CGI short films created by animator Joshua Slice depicting the adventures of the titular spider, Lucas, who has a children's voice. Since the first video was uploaded in November 2017, the series has received tens of millions of views.

History

According to an article on BoredPanda, creator Joshua Slice said he created the initial video as an "animation test" of a "character he was working on" and revealed that he did all the design, modeling, rigging, animation, lighting, and rendering by himself while the voice acting was done by Slice's nephew Lucas.^[1] On November 5th, 2017 the first video in the series was uploaded to YouTube by Slice.^[2] Simply titled "Lucas the Spider", the video served as an introduction to the character. As of February 14th, 2018 the video has received over 14.8 million views and over 348,000 likes.

As of February 14th, 2018 the Lucas the Spider YouTube channel has over 881,000 subscribers and has been covered by news outlets such as Nerdist,^[3] LaughingSquid,^[4] and Mashable.^[5] Other popular videos featuring Lucas include a short called "Capture" which gained 9.2 million views (shown below, left) and "Playtime," which gained 6.9 million views (shown below, right).

Online Presence

The series has inspired several popular reaction and response videos. The Dodo posted an interview with Slice on February 12th that gained over 833,000 views (shown below, left). On the 9th, MsMojo posted a video called "Lucas the Spider – Top 3 Facts!" that gained over 192,000 views (shown below, right). On Reddit, the first video gained over 5,600 upvotes on /r/videos.^[6] The videos are frequently posted to Tumblr as well, often gaining hundreds of notes.^[7] There is also a dedicated fan blog for the character.^[8]