Animated Butterfly in After Effects, Part 1

Why does Layers Magazine keep duplicating all their feeds? I got this post in my feed reader because I subscribed to the After Effects feed… and then I got the same exact post again from my PhotoShop feed. What’s the deal? You guys do this ALL the time and it’s so annoying to get duplicates of every thing, even when the tutorial has nothing to do with the application feed I subscribed to (like how this is on your PhotoShop feed even though it’s an After Effects tutorial). Seriously annoying.

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Great stuff can’t wait for the next tutorial

Hi.
I teach after effects too.
Oddly enough I actually taught how to make a butterfly
tonight. So you put a smile on my face when
I came acroos your tutorial.

A easier way of doing the keyframing and having
greater control over timing.
You only really need three keyframes per wing.
example.
right wing.
y-rotation 45,-45,45
left wing
y-rotation -45,45,-45

that is all you need for a loop.
now here is the key do an expression on the property
alt/option click on the y rotation clock
type this…
loopOut(”cycle”)

this will loop the three keyframes forever.
to adjust timing.
select all the keyframes then you can alt/option drag to adjust timing.

all those keyframes will give you grief in the long run.
I can send my butterfly file.

creativecow has a tutorial on it.
It was done in photoshop and after effects 5.5
he uses a really butterfly pic

I do all my work in after effects. I use a gif. so we can do
masking and saving of presets.
thanx adam

Where do I see the second part?

John

excelent tuto, but, hw i see the second part, and, it can`t meke it whith expresions?
thank for your dedication…

This may be a silly comment but where do you find the second part of this tutorial?

Many thanks.

Mark

Interesting. Thanks.

J.. ANOTHER homerun…. You make this soo easy looking that I just want to quit my day gig, and play with butter-freak-flies all day.

Guys, if you can’t find the second part, that’s because there is no visible link for it. You would have to put your cursor over the name J. Schuh and click it. It takes you directly to the second part and some other tuts. Hope this helps.

[...] Click here to go to the first part of this two-part tutorial. [...]

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.

thanx

I would like to know what was done in Illustrator with the butterfly pic