I think this is a compositing effect, however i'm not sure, i think it would be done in compositing.

Anyway. I'm trying to figure out how one character morphs into another without actually changing the geometry. Im aware of programs that morph one image into another but im looking into it as a video sequence. You see it all the time in things like Heroes, music videos, etc.

In just general interest, how would I pull something like this off? Has anyone gave this a go?

Hey Peter

Yeah compositing is really your only solution if the geo can't blend shape to the new character.

Depending on what compositing software you have, you basically just need to perform a warp that simultaneously fades into the destination image.

There are some plugins such as Re:Flex which can be used in After Effects, Shake and Fusion. It looks pretty cool, but the warp effect should give you what you need for a standard transition.

Just make sure to try and make the end/start frames in your 3D environment as close as possible to each other to reduce pain!

Good luck, let us know how you go.

cheers
Andrew

Hey Andrew, I've been looking about and there's a few softwares that seem to do the same. I haven't had the opportunity to try this out, but I'd really like to see how it handles something other than face transitions. Like an object to another.

It's just something ive been interested in. I'll hopefully try and use the aftereffects plugin as this will hopefully keep the transparency values of a render when morphing to the other, so I dont have to worry about keying out. Thanks for your help though!

Hi, I've recently experimented with character morphing in 3D between 3 characters.
This does change the geometry with simple blendshapes and displacement blending though but it shows the kind of results you can get and I'd be happy to give you some information on how I've done it if you like.

Have a look;
vimeo.com/12104968

Good luck.

Jay