Tutorial to Make a Butterfly Using 3Ds Max and Photoshop
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How to Make and Animate Butterfly Wings easily using 3Ds Max and Photoshop
When I learned about NURBS for the first time all I wanted to make was a butterfly. I googled pictures and videos of butterflies so I can make a really accurate one. And with lots of hard work I made one.The one below.
But then I got a real big problem. How am I going to give her real butterfly wings instead of a gradient ramp? When I showed it to my teacher at class she told me a easier way to make a butterfly wings that look more real.
And this is how you do it.
Find a photo of a real butterfly that shows at least one whole wing. (You can easily google “Monarch Butterfly” and download one because they are so common on the net)
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This is the one I found at http://www.butterflyutopia.com/BIG/019a-monarch_butterfly.jpg
Open Adobe Photoshop
File – Open or Ctrl + O
And Open the photo of the butterfly
Get the “Magnetic Lasso tool”
Get a selection of one of the wings as below (This will take some time)
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Edit – Copy or Ctrl +C
Then
Edit – Paste or Ctrl +V
Click on the little eye and hide the first layer
Get the “Magic Wand Tool” and click on the grey and white checker region.
Get a new layer
Get “Paint Bucket Tool”
Get Black as foreground colour and White background colour.
Click on the picture
Hide Layer 1 from Layers
Click on layer 2
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Swap the back and fore ground colours (Short cut “X” in the keyboard)
Click on the grey and white checker region.
Now it should look like below
File – Save – Give a name (e.g.: img1) and a place to save – Change the format to JPEG – Save
Now hide layer 2 and unhide layer one
File – Save – Give a name (e.g. img2) and a place to save – Change the format to JPEG – Save
Now close Photoshop ,don’t save the rest they are not really needed.
But if you want you can save rest of the work as a Photoshop file.
Open 3Ds max.
I use 2009, but since this is really basic work any version would do fine.
Create a plane
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Press “M” on the keyboard and get the Material Editor
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Give Img2.jpg as the Diffuse Map and Img1.jpg as the Opacity Map
Assign the Material to the plane
Enable “Show Standard Map in Viewport”
Tick on 2 Sided
It will look like,
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Change the offset values in the Opacity Map in the Material Editor and get the wing to your right hand corner.
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Give the same offset values to the Diffuse Map
Get the scale tool and scale it (here in the y axis) as you see fit
Click on Hierarchy and click on “Affect Pivot Only”
Get the move tool and move the Pivot point to the edge
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Click on “Affect Pivot Only” again
Get the rotate tool and rotate the plane about 180 degrees while you press and hold the “Shift” key (here in the y axis)
Like above tick on “Copy” and OK it
Rotate and Move to adjust the wings properly.
Press F9 and see your work
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On Auto key and rotate the wings to animate the wings.
Below pictures are from an animation I’ve made(The body is from the first butterfly I’ve made using NURBS)