Comments on: Animated Butterfly in After Effects, Part 1

By: rev

rev — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:53:32 +0000

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

By: anuj

anuj — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:58:12 +0000

thanx

By: Gene Hamm

Gene Hamm — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:55:35 +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: Free After Effects Tutorial | Animating a Flying Butterfly | Layers Magazine

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:51:24 +0000

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

By: Emindesign

Emindesign — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:32:32 +0000

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.

By: Big-T

Big-T — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:25:04 +0000

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.

By: Mark Skilbeck

Mark Skilbeck — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:53:37 +0000

Interesting. Thanks.

By: Mark Bowen

Mark Bowen — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:09:26 +0000

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

Many thanks.

Mark

By: Karl Mad

Karl Mad — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:57:44 +0000

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

By: John Wahl

John Wahl — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:22:49 +0000

Where do I see the second part?

John

By: adam

adam — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:07:13 +0000

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

By: Parkaboy

Parkaboy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:01:44 +0000

Great stuff can’t wait for the next tutorial