Hey all! So I need some help. For the short film I'm planning to shoot next month I want to do a small little sleight of hand trick to shoot this one bit of magic in camera.

Basically the gag is, the lead character is pointing out a little floating inviible something in mid air, reaches out and snatches a small (~2 inch tall) model of a butterfly from thin air in her fingertips.

I've done some research, and I know I've seen guys do gags like this with coins, but I'm not sure how to go about it with something larger. It does only have to work for this one shot, so we can fake it as much as it needs to, to get it to work, but I'd like to do it practically. And I don't mind building something to make it work, I'm pretty much figuring on it.

I was thinking some of clear base that could be gripped between the fingers, holding the model behind the hand, and then could be thrown forward and grabbed in the finger tips for the reveal. No clue if that would work. I know we've got a couple magic people around here, so I thought I'd throw it out to all of you fine people to see if anyone has any ideas

Thanks y'all!