The butterfly effect is widely used in tv commercials, as syfy tv or movies such as Harry Potter.
The transition of particles that have movement is very complicated with other 3d programs.
but with cinema 4 d thinking particles and xpresso, this is very simple.
with this tutorial you can to include any kind of object with animation, As any kind of insect or can include large animations.
size doesn’t matter because the number of particles is handled with the editor of xpresso
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