I promised my Aunt Nancy several months ago that I would do some artwork of her. This is the result. I did this using Photoshop to colorize, posterize and then color separate her black and white pic. Then, I used the images in Blender as surface textures and created shapekeys to form and un-form the images and color patches into the butterfly. I used and HDRI backround for the environment lighting and an orthgraphic camera. Finally, after rendering the original 360 frames (15 seconds) in Cycles I used Camtasia Studio to edit the clip into this final form. You can see the video on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Mnmhv43LY
What a great idea. I love the creativity and the video just makes it all the more awesome! I hope your aunt likes it!