Morphing through images

[Gunnar Kordestani]

I would be happy to know there is a morphing effect at all…. Is there?
Do I just don’t know about it? Maybe some 3rd party plugin….

cheers gk

[Ed Sully]

You mean like the michael jackson video from the 90’s? Id like to know too.

[Matthew Woods]

If you are on a mac, I’ve had good results using the free program MorphX. You have to create morphs for each pair of images and string them all together in After Effects.

https://www.norrkross.com/software/morphx/morphx.php

If you have CS3, I’ve also used the puppet tool… take two images. Put pins in the first, move the playhead and dissolve halfway over the second image, then move the pins to the corresponding points in the second image. This creates the top layer of your dissolve. Next copy the pin locations of the end puppet points, to your second image. (This creates a new mesh for the second image with the end pin locations). Go back and enter the values of the original pins in the first image to the mesh for your second image. Then adjust the opacity keys of the top image to dissolve between the two. Rinse and repeat.

[Matthew Woods]

If you have too many images to animate by hand you could try, depending on how different your images are, and how smooth an effect you want, you could try importing the images as a sequence, and applying the timewarp plug in (or time remap and apply high quality frame blending) to them… that probably won’t give you the results you want though…

[Nate Gasaway]

you may want to try using WinMorph. Its a little klunky, but it’s freeware. enjoy

https://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/

[Brian Berneker]

This isn’t an After Effects solution, but if you’re on Mac, there is a program called Morph Age Pro that does the job nicely, and it will keyframe morphs in video sequences.