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Morphing photographs with Blender

Bart ·

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:

Author Bart
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 Community Lead at n8n.
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