Animating Butterfly Wings

 

 

1. Select a butterfly tube and open in PSP. You can find a tube here.  Shift+D to duplicate and close the original.

 

2. In the layer palette right click on your butterfly and duplicate it 3 times for a total of 4 butterfly layers.

 

 

3. Select your Pick tool.  In some versions of PSP it is also referred to as the Deformation tool.

 

 

4. Hide your top 3 layers and have layer 1 active.  You now want to grab the nodes in the center of the right side then drag in toward the center of the butterfly a little bit.  Do the same with the left side.  I moved each side in about the length of 1 of the background squares on each side.

 

 

5.  Hide layer 1.  Leave layer 2 as it is and unhide layer 3.  Using the pick/deformation tool again move the wings in a little further.  I went in 2 squares on each side this time.

 

 

6.  Hide layer 3 and unhide layer 4.  Do the same thing, but pull the wings much further in. (5 squares).

 

 

7. Unhide all layers and Save AS PSPimage/PSP Animation Shop (depending on your version).  Go to AS and open your butterfly there.  Select all.  Right click and go to Frame Properties.  Set between 15 and 20.  When you preview it you should see something like this.

 

 

When you are satisfied save your animation.

 

Hope you all enjoy!

 

Tutorial written by MaeBugg