A Work in Progress: Teach me to fly!



This guide was made for entry:
Teach me to fly!
In Contest:
butterfly


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I took my source image into Freehand and traced the shape of the wing with the pen tool.

Creation of Teach me to fly!: Step 1

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From this I got a shape which I could then take into Cinema 4D (As an AI File).

Creation of Teach me to fly!: Step 2

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Then took the paths and lofted the nurbs to create the wing shape...

Creation of Teach me to fly!: Step 3

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Next I imported my source image to use as a texture. I was very particular as to getting the wing looking as close as possible to a real butterfly.

Creation of Teach me to fly!: Step 4

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To get the effect I wanted I played with alpha channel to get the blue part slightly transparant... and to let the light that passed through it, become tinted.

Creation of Teach me to fly!: Step 5

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Then duplicated the wing and positioned them.

Creation of Teach me to fly!: Step 6

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Then I created a simple body and added feelers and legs (also using vector paths from Freehand). Created a little scene of a couple of butterflies flying, setup the scene lighting with Global AI and bam! Scene done!

Creation of Teach me to fly!: Step 7

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Finished render... Render time about 10 minutes or so.

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Final result

Creation of Teach me to fly!: Final Result

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