# How to animate slowly flapping wings?

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**Created:** [February 12, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-animate-slowly-flapping-wings/304702 "2010-02-12T06:08:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-animate-slowly-flapping-wings/304702/1 "2010-02-12T06:08:05Z")

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okay, this has surely been done before and probably posted somewhere but I am not able to find answers on it…

I am trying to animate an image of a butterfly so the wings flap slowly. The wings flap slowly down and as they come up they turn into different wings, turning the butterfly into a different butterfly after each second flap. I have about 30 or so images of butterflies to do this with. I have photoshop’d them so that each butterfly is split into 3 parts - the wings and the body. I was thinking to load the butterflies and then transform the wings but I am not sure how to do this.

Do you have any ideas as to the best way to do this and make it look real. I would be grateful even for a direction to look! 🙂