Swordflasher's Sqirlz Morph site

Welcome

2007-07-28T01:16:00.000+01:00

Hi.
I've been experimenting with Sqirlz Morph, a free morph animation program.
I've been trying out some ideas and hope you find some of them useful or inspirational.
I've been exploring the idea of using morphs to create animations from different poses of the same object as well as morphing between different objects.

Rose Deva

2007-07-28T01:12:00.000+01:00

I collected pictures of rose windows, and some of galaxies and glass paperweights.
This was made as a Valentine's Day gift.

Giffy the Clown

2007-07-28T01:01:00.001+01:00

I'm a big fan of Sqirlz Morph.
Gifs will jerkily run through once, frame by frame at a slow rate, and then cycle at their correct speed.
Going through the first time takes longer if there are other pictures on the page.
You can speed things up by just clicking the title of the one you're looking at, so only that will display.

Feel free to copy these for your personal use.

Elven swordmaster

2007-07-28T00:40:00.001+01:00

Flying car

2007-07-28T00:37:00.000+01:00

I really like the turbulence in the air behind it. Made by simply takng two identical photos of a field, and pasting the car at either end. Changing the angle of the car changes the flight - it turns, and changing the size adds to the illusion.

and with no fixed boundaries, makes the field look better, giving a real sense of 3D perspective.

Fight

2007-07-28T00:30:00.000+01:00

Trying to make an action sequence

and slower

Thee were made from about six photographs of action figures.

I learnt from this that a limb crossing the body causes distorts, and so unless I want the turbulence effect it is best not to put control points on limbs [see 'Naga' for an example].

Marseilles tarot

2007-07-27T20:56:00.000+01:00

and smaller [and compressed to reduce file size]

Durer breathing

2007-07-27T20:44:00.000+01:00

A subtle one

Wobbly city warp

2007-07-27T20:43:00.000+01:00

The Tower of Babel, made of jelly.

Eye of Sauron

2007-07-27T20:41:00.000+01:00

Taking a picture and rotating it, then pasting the central eye back on each.

Sauron grenade launcher

2007-07-27T20:39:00.000+01:00

Cave troll warp

2007-07-27T20:37:00.000+01:00

Just the one photoshopped picture, warped.

Orky

2007-07-27T20:29:00.000+01:00

The next step would be to paste the various figures on the same background..

Girlboat warp

2007-07-27T20:28:00.000+01:00

Freud warp

2007-07-27T20:25:00.000+01:00

Using the warp to change just one photo, not between two.

Hannibal smiley

2007-07-27T20:20:00.002+01:00

smaller

and smallest

The Scream

2007-07-27T20:20:00.001+01:00

Rose lamia

2007-07-27T20:16:00.000+01:00

and without fixed boundaries

Naga

2007-07-27T20:11:00.002+01:00

Made by making a series of images in photoshop [actually Arcsoft Photostudio 5.5], with the girl pasted to an image of a snake's body. The same image of the snake's body was altered using 'distort'.

Indian

2007-07-27T20:11:00.001+01:00

Girl puppet

2007-07-27T20:09:00.000+01:00

Water

2007-07-27T20:05:00.000+01:00

Baby Animal dance

2007-07-27T20:02:00.000+01:00

Baron Samedi

2007-07-27T18:53:00.000+01:00

Mixing my face with skulls, to get an image of Baron Samedi

And as an AVI to get clear single frames in photoshop.

And a single frame

And a different sequence

Puppet heads

2007-07-27T18:49:00.000+01:00

Gollum

2007-07-27T18:45:00.000+01:00

And using different poses of Gollum

Golly

2007-07-27T17:43:00.002+01:00

Using Dobbie and Gollum gave me the idea of using two different expressions of the same character, in a Jekyll and Hyde way.

Frodo Potter

2007-07-27T17:41:00.000+01:00

Really needs to be cropped better, but it gave me the idea later of using two similar pictures, or more effectively a warp, to simulate breathing.

Living mandala

2007-07-27T17:33:00.000+01:00

Just two pictures.
Again, several of the control points have been moved to create ripples.

Mixer

2007-07-27T17:31:00.000+01:00

The same figure, but this time moving contol points to diffent areas of the outside of the picture, in a random way.
Sqirlz has a very organic and flowing morph action, while other programs use triangles and cannot achieve these effects.

Woodman

2007-07-27T17:26:00.000+01:00

My first attempt at simulating a walk. I like the way the landscape flows and ripples round the figure.

Fixed boundaries

and unfixed

Tiger Me 2

2007-07-27T17:21:00.000+01:00

A black background focuses on the main subject, and removes distracting elements from the morph. This one is too big for the site to display, which is an interesting effect in itself - we tend to make whole face morphs without stopping to think about cropping them.

Fishy story

2007-07-27T17:12:00.000+01:00

Two random pictures from the internet, two people and an eel...
This is the first time I tried a morph without fixed boundaries, which means the edges of the picture flow off in fascinating directions. Gives more of a rollercoater effect.

Tiger Me

2007-07-27T17:05:00.000+01:00

Just starting off. I made a teransitional picture using a 'solarize' filter, looking a little like colourful tattoos. Not really needed, but I liked the effect.

Me Golem

2007-07-27T16:59:00.000+01:00