Butterfly animation

By Alex 1 year ago

My tenth unit (actually unit 9) was to animate a butterfly in motion. I ended up using the boxy butterfly rig by Truong for this task because I had issues when working with the rig provided by the university.

(Truong, 2014)

This animation was quite simple to make and didn’t take me very long to complete. Despite that, it is one of my favourite animations as I am very pleased with the sporadic movement that I created with the motion path. Unfortunately due to some limitations with the rig I was unable to have the wing tips bend in the ways they should have, to help make the motion more realistic. I also added some overlapping action to the antennae and abdomen, although it is not super visable as the butterfly moves very quickly.

Truong (2014) butterfly on stick, https://truongcgartist.gumroad.com/. Available at: https://truongcgartist.gumroad.com/l/boxybutterfly.

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Hi, my name is Alex.

I’ve been passionate about animation since I was six years old. I used to create short videos with my Star Wars Lego figures bringing my stories to life. I’ve been doing the same kind of thing ever since and when I had the opportunity to learn the skills and software needed to build and animate for games, I jumped at the chance. My love for video games meant that Game Design was an obvious choice for my degree and showed me that, actually, animation was the way I wanted to go. I am currently doing a Master's in Character and Creature Animation at the University of Hertfordshire. Before that I studied Game Design at the University of Wolverhampton.

I am proficient in Maya, Blender, and Unreal Engine, and also have experience of 3DS Max and Rokoko Motion Capture Software.

Maya, Blender, Unreal, 3DS Max, Rokoko Studio, Quixel Mixer
Maya, Blender, Unreal, 3DS Max, Rokoko Studio, Quixel Mixer