3D Butterfly Animation

Is it possible to make an animation like this from scratch in one day? Answer: Yes! :)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 3d
• animation
• cgi
• galaxy
• butterfly
• nature
• flight
• study

[Suboloc]

How did you animate this up? Did you use a deformer, rig it?

[cgigalaxy]

@Suboloc body and antennas: deformer, legs/feet: rig with bones and helpers, wings: rotate + deformer. all as loop, then keys made, then parts of the keys flattened out (in the flapping pause). the butterfly links to a helper on a path constraint (flight-path)

[Suboloc]

Ok thanks mate, real help.

[pixelcomet]

@Suboloc yes

[Suboloc]

So are the legs, body wings etc all separate floating geometry floating together in a group?

[pixelcomet]

@xzippy89x pm me what you need and I will see if I can help you by a few mouse clicks

[xzippy89x]

Hi Oli, i don't suppose you could put a flying animated butterfly in my film footage for me?! That would be awesome!! x

[harwiemusic]

And now ?

[henrythejeditube]

Oh My!

That is cute, Oliver

Guess what: I actually enjoed your use of the Depth of Field on the background footage. Youu have done it well enough for it to integrate very well with your 3d butterfly to the point that someone can actually believe it is a real butterfly. Well Done!