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Problems Morphing with Reshape
Hi there, I’m doing a spot for a car reseller in where a sports car morphs into a minvan.
I’ve looked at Chris Zwar’s morphing tutorial and thought it would work well for this project since the client has no budget and purchasing something like RE:flex isn’t going to happen. I’m morphing different parts of the vehicles separately to get more of a “transformer ” type look. The tires morphed just fine, but when I tried to morph the tail end of the car into the tail end of the van (both images are masked out in photoshop and imported, and the PS masks cut & pasted onto the AE layers) it did not warp the car image smoothly into the van shape as in the tutorial. I added about 40 correspondence points and brought up the elasticity to ‘super fluid’ and it didn’t seem to help much. What’s worse is that the higher I bring up the elasticity setting the slower my computer gets. If I set it to ‘super fluid’ it takes about ten minutes for the setting to apply, which makes it virtually impossible to troubleshoot.
Does anyone know of a reason why this isn’t working? Is there any other distort effects, like ‘mesh warp’ that would result in a similar look? Maybe rotoscoping by hand, since the morph is only going to take half a second? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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3 Replies
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Reshape is pretty frustrating. It just doesn’t react as you would expect often. I had to give up on it. I think I ended up using reflex. You could do it in Shake also. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Pete O’Connell -
Thanks anyway Peter. Looks like it’ll have to be rotoscoped by hand.
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You might be able to pick up a cheap secondhand version of Elastic Reality off Ebay..they don’t make it anymore, but it is excellent and is basically the toolset that became Re: Flex.
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