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Morph madness.
Okay, I need to morph two guys together. The only tutorial I found was for V 5.5. Is this effect still done this way? Seems like there’s an easier way…
I’m using AE 7 Pro.
These are the two shots by the way:
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Can’t you roto them and then use a cross disolve/clever transition along with a reshape effect? You might also want to check out RE-shape, word on the streets is that its pretty awesome.
https://www.revisionfx.com/products/reflex/
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and make a clean plate too…sorry forgot ’bout that…
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Re:Flex is good.
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gaaaarrrrr…yes.
I have no money for third party plug-ins.
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The only morph-like changes in AE have been the Puppet Tool and Liquify. I tried morphing with the Puppet Tool and it was a real chore, taxing the system. I don’t think it was designed for that.
Liquify is much better, in my opinion. Give it a go.
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Liquify eh? I’ll try anything.
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You ask if I have clean plates? They are all currently in the dish washer.
No clean plates for this project.
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The camera was, indeed, locked down.
Build a clean plate? Would you try to auto trace them? I really don’t want to animate a mask by hand.
I’ve already got the morph pretty much finished up. It looks decent. I would like it to look a little better though.
I’m going to play with it a little longer and then post the results.
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Okay, so it’s supposed to span from “the olden days” to now.
The morph is still a bit rough
Suggestions are welcome. So far, this is just the Reshape effect and trancparancy values.
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Yeah, I reckon you could still get a better result with reshape or liquify..try splitting the different obvious shapes/groups into diff layers and morph like for like pieces, rather than the whole thing as one.
You might be able to pick up Elastic Reality by Avid on Ebay cheap secondhand..they don’t make it anymore, but it was the forerunner to Re:Flex and is still very good. With this you can employ several groups of boundaries that will freeze certain areas, but pull others the way you want them to go and you can start different parts of the morph staggered, whilst keeping it all one ‘layer’ if you like.
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