Help morphing

[TheMM]

Could anyone give me some pointers on making a morph movie? I already got the program, but mainly what to morph, how long it should last, what kind of file, etc. Thanks ahead of time!

[glammaman2000]

"What to morph?" huge muscle-guys beating the crap out of each other. "How long should it last?" forever. "What kind of file?" what's a file?

[TheMM]

Yes. Sort of. And a cabinet.

[mawkroy]

Basically, what you wanna do amounts to a form of animation. You take a series of morphs and run them in sequential order sorta like a flipbook.
The downside to this is it takes a considerable amount of time to produce even a seconds' worth of material. Roughly, you must:

1. Extract the frames from the video you want to morph from. (remember 1 second of footage = 30 frames)

2. Morph the individual frames one by one, ensuring consistency of dimensions from frame to frame to create a believable illusion. This is akin to hand-drawn animation, where even a simple line must make kinetic sense from frame-to-frame.

3. Use software to stack the frames back together in order and spit out your video. (in technical terms, converting image files to video files--google "convert jpeg to avi" or something simliar for the software)

As you can see, it's an exhaustive effort, but the effect can be breath-taking! A marvelous example of this can be found on the Muscle-Growth-Stories yahoo group under files.

I have actually done this quite a few times, but have only produced one I feel decent enough for public viewing. I've posted my own humble offering in my thread in the photo forum.

http://www.musclegrowth.org/forum/sh...3645#post43645

Hope this proves useful to you =)

Gus

[TheMM]

Thanks, I realized that I don't have enough time for morph movies with college and all, but I'll definately keep this in mind.