Comments on: Animated Butterfly in After Effects, Part 2

By: Hari Karam Singh

Hari Karam Singh — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:06:01 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. Amazing what a difference motion blur makes! The comment by adam on part 1 using the loopOut expression works well (though I prefer your angles). I also added wiggle(3,45) to Body’s Y Rotation just to add a little more randomness.

By: Gregg Payne

Gregg Payne — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:45:44 +0000

Keep up the good work on your tutorials. Very nice to have explicit details for us newbies! Thanks a bunch!

By: Gene Hamm

Gene Hamm — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:56:13 +0000

I animated next to an After Effects artist for seven months and was always mystified how he performed his magic. Your one After Effects tutorial in Layers Magazine took the mystery out of it. You are one hell of a teacher.

By: john hoyos

john hoyos — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:17:39 +0000

I have cs3 that i want do actualize per cs4 free, i am a student.

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By: peepod

peepod — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:38:15 +0000

Great tutorial!!! I used this to create an animation of my own! The link to my animation is: http://www.ratemyanimations.com/animation/animals/5254.html

By: pasquale

pasquale — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:27:50 +0000

that was exilerating im amazed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! elts put another shrimp on the bombayy!!!!!!

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By: MGedde

MGedde — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:48:04 +0000

First of all, the result looks pretty good. But I’m just wondering why you are keyframing a “random movement”. Wouldn’t it have been much easier to keyframe a straight path (with two or three keyframes), and then just add a wiggle expression on top to get the random movement? Seems like a lot less work, and it would be easier to change as well…

By: Nathan Dickson

Nathan Dickson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:14:07 +0000

Highly similar to the tutorial I did on After Effects 7 for Virtual Training Company a few years back. He forgot to set the butterfly to Auto-Orient on its path, which would force the butterfly to always look forward on its travel path.