Desmond Du of NoSleep Creative invited Nestor Tomaselli and I to collaborate on this Master Study, one of our favorite pieces of Motion Design.
Design: Nestor recreated the butterfly scene in Illustrator and Photoshop for a tutorial on the NoSleep Creative channel, and I chose to recreate the underwater scene using Illustrator for all the shapes and textures. We each illustrated once scene and I later animated the underwater and butterfly scenes.
Animation: Using a script to create nulls from paths, I was able to animate the butterfly’s subtle movements and make it feel organic. The script allows you to stretch and move each segment easily as if it were a puppet on a string, allowing for precise movements. The underwater scene was a process of finding the right subtle movements for a
The other smaller elements such as schools of fish or butterflies were created using expressions.
CC Ball Action was used to simulate the halftone overlay during compositing. For the bokeh light particles a combination of fast box and gaussian blur was used to mimic the softness. I was able to see during the motion test that applying a glow simply would not provide the desired effect.
Role: Design, Animation + Compositing
Butterfly scene designed by Nestor Tomaselli
Produced by Desmond Du
Created: 2020