Butterfly | Film
Butterfly | Film
Animation | VFX | Lignting | Texture mapping | Environment : Xi Wang
Composer: Yifan Ling
Faculty Advisors: Mike Patterson | Jordan Halsey
In the cave, the butterfly meets the Butterfly Man, who is an amalgamation of many other butterflies. The two dance and transform between the human and butterfly shapes. Eventually, the butterfly man is blown away by the wind.
Cinema 4D | Houdini | Redshift | Adobe After Effects | Fuse | Mixamo
Breakdown shots
Shot 3
Base System, We used the animation from Maya as an alembic file. These points are fed into a particle system, and we use the original mesh as a collision surface. We also use the original body animation as a magnet force so we can both repel and attract the particles.
Second System, There are two systems, and we use the last frame from the first system to input into a second particle system. This is where we blow the particles off with particle wind.
Import Alembic file to Cinema 4D to make the final shot.
Shot 1
Export the character animation as a FBX file from Mixamo, and import to Cinema 4D.
Shot 2
Add the object ID to the main butterfly in order to export EXR sequence with Multi-Pass for the final compositing.
Import EXR sequence to Aftereffects to do the compositing, transition, color correction, light effects, etc.
Concept Art
