Re: Morphing through images by Dave LaRonde on Jul 14, 2008 at 3:22:25 pm
A third-party plugin exists for morphing, but I've never used it and I don't even know its name. However, I do know it involves morphing from one image to another, and not morphing several images one after another. From the brief look I got at the web site, it looked like the results would be pretty hit-and-miss until you got some experience using it.
I guess in this case, a quick google using the terms Morph, "After Effects" might pay some dividends.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: Morphing through images by Matthew Woods on Jul 14, 2008 at 8:21:26 pm
If you are on a mac, I've had good results using the free program MorphX. You have to create morphs for each pair of images and string them all together in After Effects.
If you have CS3, I've also used the puppet tool... take two images. Put pins in the first, move the playhead and dissolve halfway over the second image, then move the pins to the corresponding points in the second image. This creates the top layer of your dissolve. Next copy the pin locations of the end puppet points, to your second image. (This creates a new mesh for the second image with the end pin locations). Go back and enter the values of the original pins in the first image to the mesh for your second image. Then adjust the opacity keys of the top image to dissolve between the two. Rinse and repeat.
Re: Morphing through images by Matthew Woods on Jul 14, 2008 at 8:29:26 pm
If you have too many images to animate by hand you could try, depending on how different your images are, and how smooth an effect you want, you could try importing the images as a sequence, and applying the timewarp plug in (or time remap and apply high quality frame blending) to them... that probably won't give you the results you want though...
