Whimsical Grassy Field Butterfly Scene Part 1 – AE Premium
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects, Trapcode Particular, FreeForm, Optical Flares, and Magic Bullet Looks (last two optional)
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Run Time: 28:12 min
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- Whimsical Grassy Field Butterfly Scene Part 2 – AE Premium
- Whimsical Grassy Field Butterfly Scene Part 1 – AE Premium
Hey guys, We’ve got a nice one for you today…. yes, another butterfly tutorial. We will be creating a “non-realistic-semi-fantasy-looking-3d” butterfly from an insect point of view, but the main focus in this tutorial will be more on the final composition of all the different parts… how to get the final look. We’ll post Part 2 tomorrow.
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tut result looks good. Butterflies are really impressive. Thanks
Looks really nice. I might try use a displacement map to give the grass a subtle movement.
Thanks for posting
How would you go about that?
I havent tried yet but it would likely use a few different pre-comped grass layers that would be using a fractal noise layer as the displacement. Fractal noise can be very fiddley but you can get subtle movements from it which shouldn’t make the grass look like its made from jelly ;-) ..its just a theory at this moment though.
Heres the tut from creative cow on displacement maps
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/displacement1/video-tutorial
Or you could just use Turbulent Displace.
have a look at this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTho7qmNG6A
Just tried to open this tutorial and it won’t open in CS4. Can we get this updated?
I tried downloading the source file and doesn’t work thou I’m a premium user and logged in. Why exactly?
I’ve downloaded the source files but there is no tutorial file and i can’t see it on this page either! Where can i find the actual tutorial????