2. Index
1. What is Morphing?
1. Digital Morphing
1. Techniques of Digital Morphing
3. What is Morphing?
Morphing is a special effect in animations that change
one image into another form using a seamless
transition.
It is used to portray one person turning into another
through technological means or as part of a fantasy.
Traditionally such a depiction would be achieved
through cross-fading techniques in a movie.
4.
5. Digital Morphing
In the early 1990s computer techniques often produced
more convincing results began to be used widely.
These involved warping one image at the same time
that it faded into another by marking corresponding
points and vectors on "before" and "after" images used
in the morph.
6. Example: One would morph one face into another by
key points marking on the first face, such as a shape of
nose or location of an eye, and mark where these same
points existed on the second face.
The computer warps the first face to have the shape of
the second face at the same time that it faded the two
faces.
7. Techniques of Digital Morphing
Digital Morphing programs can automatically morph
image that corresponds closely enough with
instruction from the user.
Digital Morphing technique used to create the
convincing slow-motion effects where none existed in
real film or video footage by morphing between every
frame using optical flow technology.
8. Digital Morphing also appeared as a transition
technique between one scene and another in television
shows, even if two images contents are completely
unrelated.
In this case, the algorithm attempts to find
corresponding points between the images and distort
one into another as they crossfade.
9. Digital Morphing is used heavily today whereas the
effect was initially a creation, morphing special effects
are most often designed to be seamless and invisible to
eye.
10. Use for morphing effects is modern digital font design.
Using morphing technology a designer can create an
intermediate between two styles.
Example generating a semibold font by compromising
between a bold and regular style, or extend a trend to
create an ultra-bold or ultra-light.
Font design studios commonly use the technique.