Morphing Software:
Think Your Relatives Look Funny Now? Just Wait..
You've seen those cool commercials (or, admit it, YouTube videos) in which a person morphs magically into some sort of animal. It's an amazing effect that only a skilled artist should be able to pull off, but that's not the case. All you need is a copy of FantaMorph or MorphBuster and you're on your way to looking like the most tech-savvy graphic artist on the block.
Morphing isn't strictly for faces. It can also create gradually fading scenery... but let's be honest - the idea of turning a particularly nasty co-worker into a pig sounds like more fun. On the "nicer" side, you can also make effects like showing a child growing into the adult you know as "Dad" to embed into home videos.
Both FantaMorph and MorphBuster make creating complex-looking animations easy. They're designed for beginners, requiring nothing more than the ability to point and click. By paying attention to detail, you can set your portrait bouncing away as it morphs into a basketball - and these programs require less attention to detail than most. They feature controls that actually help you go from a full-color portrait to a charcoal sketch without much work.
FantaMorph is the morphing software on the top of reviews lists. It lets you create movie effects and even morph between two videos, creating a single one that can be saved as a standalone program to share with your friends as an AVI movie, flash movie, animated gif, Web page or screen saver. The ease of this morphing software is all due to the project wizard, which walks beginners through their project step by step. It's this ease that rockets FantaMorph to the top of lists and keeps customers eagerly trying out new effects.
MorphBuster has a few more features than FantaMorph but is almost as easy to use. With this morphing software, you have more options when it comes to file formats (bmp, jpg, tiff, gif, etc.) you can use in the program, and it has a fast built-in previewer that lets you watch the animation before you ever save it. Like FantaMorph, MorphBuster will save your morphing animation as an AVI movie, animated gif, flash movie, Web page, screensaver or standalone .exe that most people find extremely useful when trying to send their creative creations to friends and family via email.
Explore the limits of your imagination, and let this technology make it fun.
Phebe Durand
