Butterflies
About Butterflies
Peter spots Robin at a coffee cart and cannot get a sentence out. The nerves show up as butterflies, and swatting them only makes more. Robin watches him keep coming back to try again.
Cast & crew
More about Butterflies
Abby Boyce made the short at Ringling College of Art and Design and posted it on May 5, 2018. She did every job except the music. The picture is 3D computer animation, with almost no spoken lines.
Themes
Making
The school credit is Ringling, in Sarasota, and the film went out under a CC BY 3.0 license with Boyce named as the person to credit. A French note on 3DVF, dated July 13, 2018, pointed readers to her Vimeo upload.
Audiences
Wikidata records 5,427,437 views on the CGMeetup upload as of July 27, 2022. By October 2026 that same upload was past five and a half million.
Music
Ben Van De Water wrote the music. Boyce’s credits give him the only job she did not take herself.
Preservation
Wikimedia Commons holds the May 5, 2018 Vimeo file as a 1,920 by 1,080 WebM under a CC BY 3.0 license.
Notes
- Wikidata lists the languages as English and no linguistic content.
- CGMeetup posted a copy on June 30, 2018.
- TheCGBros posted another copy on July 2, 2018.
- The Commons file is VP9 with Opus audio, 1,920 by 1,080, about 68.24 MB.
- Boyce’s credit line on CGMeetup points to a portfolio page at cgmeetup.com/anartfart.
Scenes
- Peter stops cold when he sees Robin working the cart.
- He bats at the butterflies and the swarm gets thicker.
- Robin keeps an eye on him while he works up another attempt.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Abby Boyce - Butterflies (2018).webm)