Nenu Butterfly song from Viswamitra and Son and the animation style behind its trending edits is honestly level. What makes it stand out is the 3D treatment the way photos feel like they have real depth and movement instead of just sitting flat on screen almost like a tiny 3D scene unfolding with every lyric. Since the song is trending now this is the perfect time to learn the animation style and recreate it yourself in Alight Motion.
The edit really comes together in two parts. The first is an opening animation, styled like an eye slowly opening at the very start of the video, which sets up a dramatic cinematic entrance before the main visuals begin. The second bigger part is the 3D photo animation synced with the lyrics, which is where most of the "wow factor" comes from especially that hotel-dinner-style 3D reveal that plays out as the lyrics roll in.
To start set your project to a 9:16 aspect ratio. Add your audio track first since the entire animation is built around matching specific beats and lyric timings in the song. For the opening eye animation you take a clip right at the beginning where the eye opens export that exact frame as a PNG then duplicate it a couple of times to build the layered reveal effect. From there you place a shape near the eye. Animate its size using keyframes gradually scaling it up across several keyframes to create a smooth zoom-in feel. Adding rotation keyframes alongside the scaling gives it motion and applying an easing curve afterward makes the whole animation feel fluid instead of mechanical. Once the shape and photo are masked together to reveal the eye properly a touch of reduced saturation combined with a border and shadow effect adds that cinematic polish, making the opening feel well-composed rather than just a quick clip.
With the intro handled the main 3D animation begins. You start by picking a background either a color or a photo of your choice and extend it to run through the rest of the video. From there using the Move and Transform tool you push the Z-value up significantly somewhere around 2000-3000 which creates that pulled-back 3D depth effect from the start. Next comes the golden frame PNG, a decorative touch that acts almost like a picture frame floating in 3D space. If the frame feels too small applying an effect and adjusting its settings lets you resize it properly without distorting the image. Inside this frame you add a photo by creating a shape sized to match the frame then filling that shape with your chosen image using the media option placing it beneath the golden frame layer. A top PNG layer gets added well with its Z-value pushed slightly negative to sit correctly within the 3D space. Here's where the real trick comes in: adding an object and linking every single layer, background, photo, frame and top PNG to that one Null. Once everything is connected, animating just the Null object moves the composition together as one unified 3D scene. Adding zoom keyframes to the Null zooming in at the start and pulling back slightly by the beat drop, combined with a curve applied afterward creates that satisfying cinematic camera-like movement throughout the clip.
Finally the lyrics tie everything together. Copying the lyric lines from the song and typing them in using a matching font (ideally the movies original font for authenticity) adds that polished professional touch. Linking the layer to the same Null object means the text moves in sync with the rest of the 3D scene as it animates. Keeping the text white usually looks the cleanest against backgrounds and duplicating the layer to isolate specific words like "Butterfly," and adjusting their size individually adds a nice bit of visual variation to the lyric reveal. Put together this 3D layered technique with Null-object linking is really what gives trending edits, like this their signature depth and movement. Once you get the hang of linking layers to a single controller you'll find yourself using this trick in tons of future edits too 🦋🔥
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