Internship Work #4

 

[time taken: 1 day]

For this assignment, we were given another butterfly shot to do. We were given a small description, and had to base our shot on that. The description was 'A butterfly on a flower with a confused mindset is ready to fly, flapping the wings slowly'.

Despite being told to do only one 3-second shot, I added another one at the beginning to show the butterfly's motivation for wanting to fly in the first place, that being, seeing his fellow butterflies fly off somewhere. The same compositing/editing tricks as seen in the previous internship work was used here as well to achieve this.

I was also told to use a more slower timing for the butterfly's wings, to show his contemplation and realization better, which is what is shown here in the final animation.

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