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Subject: Re: [AE] Morphing without paid 3rd party plugins?
From: Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com>
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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:26:01 -0500
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Haven't tried it myself, but I've read that Mesh Warp can do this, and there are likely some free tutorials on the interweb.

Boris Continuum has warping plugs, but you're back to hundreds of dollars, but you also get quite a few other useful plugs, too.


On Aug 31, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Greg Balint wrote:

> Hey everyone.
> 
> A client of mine has asked if I can do morphing.. mostly interfacial and possible other situations.
> 
> I've looked around, and although RE:Flex seems to be the best option, the client's budget won't really lend itself to purchasing a $600 plugin for this project.
> 
> I've looked around, and the only 2 other options I've found, is to exploit the Pixel Motion Frame Blending between a timestretched sequence of images to get it to blend together,  or to use Distort > Reshape, but I think that will only work if my from and to frames are more like profile images, not head-on images.
> 
> So I'm wondering if anyone has been able to achieve classic morphing between 2 front-looking faces within AE's native plugins at all.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> ///Greg Balint
> //Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
> /321.514.4839
> delRAZOR.com/