I'm working on a personal project where I needed a school of fish, a swarm of insects and a flock of birds. I was postponing the making of those scenes because I had not yet imagined how I could make them. And then, while browsing youtube in search of inspiration, bam! I bought the whole suite :) I hope it will help me complete the project. Thank you for your incredible work!
Thanks! Here are the time stamps: 4:40 Swarm Setup 7:50 How to add insects 10:10 Adding a flight path 12:00 Control layer/customization controls 23:30 Helpful tips 27:40 Working with fireflies
i was looking for something like this from long time, i just bought this pack, i look now too learn how to use it :) Thank you for your awesome work!!!!
For that shot, to keep them motionless, I had all the "Wiggle Amount" controls turned to zero, and I had their wing-flapping set to manual. I positioned each butterfly where I wanted them over the ground of my footage. I put a copy of my footage above the butterflies, and I drew masks over a few grass blades and parts of the dirt that I wanted in the foreground. To get the butterfly to slightly sway while they're landed, I added a simple wiggle expression to the Leader butterfly's Rotation. The follower butterflies will mimic it, but on a long delay, so that it looks random (control the delay in the "General" section of controls). I used the "Amount" control in the "Manual Wing Flapping" section to add a few short flutters of the wings to the Leader butterfly. For take-off, I unchecked the manual wing flapping control (keyframe it), and animated the leader butterfly to fly away. The follower butterflies followed. If you want, you can offset where each butterfly flies off to with keyframes on their Position properties (on their "Segment 1" layers).
Hi bought the pack and love it! Having a little problem though. Currently trying to animate a swarm of butterflies moving from left to right of screen but when I keyframe the start and end points they always start on screen, is there a way to have them enter the frame?
Hi. It sounds like you already keyframed your leader butterfly. On the first keyframe, is the butterfly positioned far enough to the left so that it's offscreen? Just keep moving it further left until all the butterflies are out of frame. If the followers are moving ahead of the leader, you can change the "Position Delay in Followers" control to a negative value.
Hi, I would be interested in purchasing these for a specific scene in an animation short I'm making. Is it possible to make the butterflies land all together on a specific surface? I would want them to land on a character, covering their body entirely. Thank you!
Hi, I have to create an animation where different cartoon looking beetles (one of each breed) compete with each other. It’s important that unique cartoon characters I drawn should be included in this animation, so before I buy, I need to know can be the body parts of the beetles be replaced with drawn graphic elements?
Each insect is made of a few different images. You can replace the images to create other species, but it probably won't be as easy as you think. You would need a profile image, a top view image, and wings. Also, this template is for flying insects. You can make them land and take off, but the legs don't move, so you can't make them walk.
Thanks, Jeff. You would need to make your object a 3D layer and position it where you want it in 3D space. After that, you just animate the leader insect to move around the object. Look at the comp in "Top" view to make sure it clears the object with enough space so that the other insects in the swarm also clear it. Or another option... you could just position the leader insect in the same spot as your object, and not animate it's motion path at all. If the random wiggle movement is turned up high enough, the insects will swarm around the object randomly.
@@creationeffects Just downloaded Swarms. This is likely quite a novice question, but is there any way to animate with my background video/plate instead of the "sky" layer? Or, does this workflow require that you keep backing out of/back into the insect comp layer to see how it's working in relation to your video, and you edit as needed? I'm essentially trying to conduct a few butterflies to fly in from OS Left, orbit an invisible 3D point in the middle of the frame in a loop that lasts about 60-seconds, then scatter in different directions. Any tips are greatly appreciated.
@@jeff.rosick Absolutely. Import your background video file into After Effects (File/Import/File), then drag it into the timeline, right above the Sky layer.
You can make the swarms move in any direction, so yes, you could create a falling swarm, but they will be still be flying. They would just be flying downward. If you wanted them to truly be falling, as if they were dead, you would just have to make a few more adjustments to the swarm to stop the wing flapping and position wiggling.
@@andrecoleman342 It changes because the Position property has an expression on it. The expression is what allows the customization controls on the Control Layer to affect the position. You can still change the position though, and it will add whatever you enter to the value that the expression yields. Simply click and drag on the Position value, and you'll see the position change in your preview. To set it the position back to its default, click on the value and enter "0".
I'm working on a personal project where I needed a school of fish, a swarm of insects and a flock of birds. I was postponing the making of those scenes because I had not yet imagined how I could make them. And then, while browsing youtube in search of inspiration, bam! I bought the whole suite :) I hope it will help me complete the project. Thank you for your incredible work!
And that's exactly why I made these effects. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! Here are the time stamps:
4:40 Swarm Setup
7:50 How to add insects
10:10 Adding a flight path
12:00 Control layer/customization controls
23:30 Helpful tips
27:40 Working with fireflies
Pliz make a full tutorial including maya and the real composition ...i really love this🤗
you gonna get big. Best content ever
I like the way you think. Thanks for the feedback!
Great insect puns. I thought i would have to flea(flee) lol
Amazing
i was looking for something like this from long time, i just bought this pack, i look now too learn how to use it :) Thank you for your awesome work!!!!
Great, I hope you find it useful!
@@creationeffects I will but i have this little problem, the project is empty when import into one video, How to fix it? right now i work on it
@@creationeffects Is very useful for me, it is exactly what i was looking for. I have to figure it
I use After effects cc 2019
@@Angelo_Paduraru How are you opening it? Are you importing it into an existing After Effects project? Do you get an error message?
how do i make a shot like the one where the bicycle makes the butterflies fly off?
For that shot, to keep them motionless, I had all the "Wiggle Amount" controls turned to zero, and I had their wing-flapping set to manual. I positioned each butterfly where I wanted them over the ground of my footage. I put a copy of my footage above the butterflies, and I drew masks over a few grass blades and parts of the dirt that I wanted in the foreground. To get the butterfly to slightly sway while they're landed, I added a simple wiggle expression to the Leader butterfly's Rotation. The follower butterflies will mimic it, but on a long delay, so that it looks random (control the delay in the "General" section of controls). I used the "Amount" control in the "Manual Wing Flapping" section to add a few short flutters of the wings to the Leader butterfly. For take-off, I unchecked the manual wing flapping control (keyframe it), and animated the leader butterfly to fly away. The follower butterflies followed. If you want, you can offset where each butterfly flies off to with keyframes on their Position properties (on their "Segment 1" layers).
Hi bought the pack and love it! Having a little problem though. Currently trying to animate a swarm of butterflies moving from left to right of screen but when I keyframe the start and end points they always start on screen, is there a way to have them enter the frame?
Hi. It sounds like you already keyframed your leader butterfly. On the first keyframe, is the butterfly positioned far enough to the left so that it's offscreen? Just keep moving it further left until all the butterflies are out of frame. If the followers are moving ahead of the leader, you can change the "Position Delay in Followers" control to a negative value.
Hi, I would be interested in purchasing these for a specific scene in an animation short I'm making. Is it possible to make the butterflies land all together on a specific surface? I would want them to land on a character, covering their body entirely. Thank you!
Yes, you can do that. You'll want to watch the "Flies on Dead Cowboy" tutorial at the link above, to learn how to land insects.
Thank you for your reply!
Hi, I have to create an animation where different cartoon looking beetles (one of each breed) compete with each other. It’s important that unique cartoon characters I drawn should be included in this animation, so before I buy, I need to know can be the body parts of the beetles be replaced with drawn graphic elements?
Each insect is made of a few different images. You can replace the images to create other species, but it probably won't be as easy as you think. You would need a profile image, a top view image, and wings. Also, this template is for flying insects. You can make them land and take off, but the legs don't move, so you can't make them walk.
Wonderful tutorial. Any additional tip, tutorial on, or links to how to make swarms orbit an object, shape layer, or mask?
Thanks, Jeff. You would need to make your object a 3D layer and position it where you want it in 3D space. After that, you just animate the leader insect to move around the object. Look at the comp in "Top" view to make sure it clears the object with enough space so that the other insects in the swarm also clear it. Or another option... you could just position the leader insect in the same spot as your object, and not animate it's motion path at all. If the random wiggle movement is turned up high enough, the insects will swarm around the object randomly.
@@creationeffects Fantastic. Thanks so much for the quick reply. Look forward to diving in.
@@creationeffects Just downloaded Swarms. This is likely quite a novice question, but is there any way to animate with my background video/plate instead of the "sky" layer? Or, does this workflow require that you keep backing out of/back into the insect comp layer to see how it's working in relation to your video, and you edit as needed? I'm essentially trying to conduct a few butterflies to fly in from OS Left, orbit an invisible 3D point in the middle of the frame in a loop that lasts about 60-seconds, then scatter in different directions. Any tips are greatly appreciated.
@@jeff.rosick Absolutely. Import your background video file into After Effects (File/Import/File), then drag it into the timeline, right above the Sky layer.
@@creationeffects *head in hand* Of course. Thanks for the quick reply.
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Bro from where i can download it
Hi Syed, there's a link in the description.
Anything for Final Cut Pro?
No, Creation Effects is only After Effects templates.
Is it possible to do a falling swarm of insects
You can make the swarms move in any direction, so yes, you could create a falling swarm, but they will be still be flying. They would just be flying downward. If you wanted them to truly be falling, as if they were dead, you would just have to make a few more adjustments to the swarm to stop the wing flapping and position wiggling.
When you click on the position value it changes from red to blue ... I cant change the position
@@andrecoleman342 It changes because the Position property has an expression on it. The expression is what allows the customization controls on the Control Layer to affect the position. You can still change the position though, and it will add whatever you enter to the value that the expression yields. Simply click and drag on the Position value, and you'll see the position change in your preview. To set it the position back to its default, click on the value and enter "0".
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Hi Sepo. It's fine if you want to embed the video somewhere. But it's not okay to take the clips out of the video and use them in your own videos.
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That's not a honey bee :(
Hi. It is a honey bee. Or rather, a composite of multiple images of honey bees.
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