Free animated butterflies with background shadow

We love making butterflies. Dave even has several collections of butterfly cigarette cards hanging on his study wall. These animations are simple to make if you have the right software and to produce a shadow is an extra bonus. We have made these butterflies as a Flash movie and it is possible to make the shadow transparent to give a really good 3D effect. With these animations there was no need to make a transparent background because the whole animation is filled with coloured pixels.
Union jack
Skull butterfly
Tiger butterfly
Scottish Butterfly
American Butterfly
sunflower butterfly
Irish butterfly
Canadian butterfly

We have some more animated butterflies with a transparent background and a real lifelike texture applied to their wings.
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  1. Butterflies

  2. Butterflies and insects