CBlack Chest Morph

This is a morph for a image sequence in CBlack's "Boys of Summer." The story comic can be found at TGComics.com.

You would not believe how much I've forgotten about the necessary format conversion steps to make a video like this! Either that, or I've gotten a lot more picky about quality, making me dissatisfied with previous efforts. I actually rendered this as an image sequence and built the source file frame by frame in Adobe Premiere Elements, as it was the only way I could get the file quality I wanted.

Transformation Video

After posting my fan morph of Siproites sequence and putting a link in the TG Comics forum, I immediately got several wows and a request for more. Since I have a couple pieces gathering dust on my hard drive, I decided to upload them here. The first is a transformation video I did in DAZ Studio a while ago. The other is the first morph project I did.

First up, the transformation video:

Siproites Morph

After seeing some of the great transformation sequences done at TG Comics, I wanted to turn one by Siproites into morph. I've been sitting on the result since the beginning of February. Here it is!

(I know, I know ... the resolution isn't that great. I'm still looking for a way to get this online that doesn't involve YouTube.)

Morph It!

I forgot to post before now about a breakthrough of sorts that occurred last week. I was fooling around with Morpheus - the software I use to make morphs - and discovered by accident that I could load a recently edited / cropped video file made with Virtual Dub. With that discovery, I now have the power to make the files I need to do video morphing!

As if that wasn't exciting enough, the next day, I found software (RAD Video Tools) that lets me convert .MOV files to .AVI files. This means I can shoot short video clips on my cell phone, move them to my computer using a micro SD card, convert them from Quicktime to WMV (Windows Media Video, for those not in the know) and then do a video morph using footage I've made myself.

As a test, I found some footage online that I'm going to work on over the next few days / weeks / months. The source video is an audition tape for runway models. It has many different models, both male and female, doing the same walk against a neutral, white background. I chose a male and a female model that were dressed somewhat similarly and made two shorter videos using Virtual Dub, one for each model. I loaded them into Morpheus and now have a nice crossfade with no morphing of the man into the woman. I expect a nice result once I've had a chance to begin the real work of getting the morph set up.

Wish me luck!