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Morphing photographs with Blender

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Francois "CoyHot" Grassard uses Blender to create a 'morph' effect.

Francois writes:

Last night, I spend some hours on a strange experiment. I ask myself if it could be possible to use Blender as a morphing tool.Since the wonderfull "Elastic Reality" doesn't exist anymore (thank you Avid), there's no real alternative ... even with commercial applications. Most of open source softwares for morphing are quite old (xmorph, gtkmoprh) and are usually difficult to use with limited GUI.

I decided to recreate the morphing process (warping of two images + crossfade) only using Blender. The result is not perfect in my example, but I think the method is good enough to create a "believable" morphing.

Here is the screencast of my method:

About the Author

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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

9 Comments

    • I was expecting the same!!! I have been working in that optical flow thing and I still have nothing!! pretty complex...

  1. Warren D. M. Reed on

    That's cool! I am semi-new to blender, and I want to say thanks for your book Creer en blender. I live in Tanzania and it is hard to find books on anything, and sometimes you want a real book, although kindle is a life saver. I found it last august in the fnac i was visiting Cergy. anyhow, luckily I know French, and I use this post, faute d'options to say thanks for it, and it has really helped me (although I have some questions) and here is a quick animation I made using it and a blenderguru tutorial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07PoJtI-j2I&feature=share&list=UUOXHkHCIsF9VIVZZHYP1zhA

    en tout cas je vous remercie! c'est un peu bete, mais ce n'est qu'un debut... je compte faire de mieux en mieux!

    • Francois "CoyHot" Grassard on

      Thank you very very very much for you reply Warren !!! I'm so happy to know that my book is readed on the other side of the earth ... :)

      Keep up the good work my friend !!!!

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