Blender, Butterflies, and Boids | This Mortal Coil To animate in blender, you can switch the view to “animation” which will show you a dope sheet and a curve graph editor. To animate the armature I did this: Starting with the base pose of the butterfly, I inserted a keyframe (use the ‘I’ key) for my base pose. I moved the wing bones to the extreme high point and made another keyframe.