Butterfly Effects & Composite

I worked as a technical artist and compositor for a collaboration with a grad thesis film project titled "Happy Birthday.” I created an opacity map for a texture png of a butterfly, then created a rig for the image plane model, animated it, and referenced the animated butterfly to my particle simulation where I adjusted size, color, and position attributes. Lastly, I composited the particle simulation into the scene in Nuke. This is one of the shots I worked on.