use the motion path tool in Maya to create a flight path.create a butterfly flap cycle based on research and reference.In the tutorial students will learn how to: Butterflies move faster than the human eye, so if you can see the butterfly in motion clearly, then you're doing it wrong.
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The tutorial also shows how to use a motion path in order to create a random flight path, and attach the butterfly to it. The butterfly tutorial uses a flap cycle taken from The Animator's Survival Kit, the book every animator should own - and available from our Animation Library at Escape Studios.
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The tutorial adds to our range of different creature animation techniques, and reflects the growth in creature animation, (especially at the big VFX houses) so that our student animators can create a believable butterfly flap cycle and performance.Īs ever, we break down an apparently complex exercise into a series of simple steps, giving students a feeling of success at the end of the tutorial, and helping them to learn a new technique. This tutorial teaches students how to animate butterflies, including how to create a motion cycle and attach it to a motion path in Maya.
We've added a new animation tutorial to our Vimeo channel, part of our series on animal and creature locomotion and performance.
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