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Butterfly life cycle animation
Watch the butterfly life cycle drawn step by step: eggs on a leaf, a hungry caterpillar, a chrysalis hanging from a twig and the butterfly that comes out. A hand-drawn whiteboard animation made from one illustration.
- Length
- 0:58 · 2 chapters
- Hand
- No hand
- Aspect ratio
- 4:3
- Colour starts at
- 0:39
- Style
- Lines + colour
- Formats
- 16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16
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The picture it starts from
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The prompt behind the picture
Hand-drawn diagram of the butterfly life cycle, four stages in a circle joined by curved red arrows: a cluster of tiny eggs on a leaf, a striped caterpillar eating a leaf, a green chrysalis hanging from a twig, an orange monarch butterfly with its wings open. Coloured pencil and watercolour marker, clean black ink outlines, warm off-white paper, no text.The picture came from an image model; any finished illustration works the same way, including one you drew. Use the prompt as a starting point for your own topic.
Butterfly life cycle, step by step
A script to read over it, timed to the drawing: the lines go down first and the colour arrives on the last beat.
- 0:00Line artA butterfly doesn’t start life with wings. It changes completely, in four stages.
- 0:08First comes the egg: a tiny bead laid on a leaf the young can eat.
- 0:17Out hatches a caterpillar, the larva. It eats and grows, shedding its skin as it goes.
- 0:27ColourThen it hangs from a twig and becomes a chrysalis, the pupa. Inside, its body is rebuilt.
- 0:40At last a butterfly breaks free, dries its wings and lays eggs of its own. The cycle begins again.
Where this butterfly life cycle animation fits
Use it to teach metamorphosis and the four stages of a butterfly’s life in a science lesson, as a short clip for a nature video, or behind narration in a kids’ explainer. The same process turns your own life cycle diagram into a clip.
- Education
- Explainer videos
- Science
- Nature
