Morphing a Female into a Cat!

mistycomic

I am working on some artwork where the concept is changing a young girl into a cat ie human to animal.

Pretty new to all this Daz stuff so need any ideas how it can be achieved AND i need to show different stages of the transformation in my finished work.

ANY HELP/POINTERS would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

Richard Haseltine

That's almost certainly more than could be done - you'd probably be better looking at some of RawArt's products to get you part way, then use a 2D photo-morphing application to finish the job if you want a complete sequence.

mistycomic

Cheers Richard

Just been looking at Creature Creator to get me from A-B, but its the transformation sequence which i feel will be hard to show.

 

JD_Mortal

I would start with the face, obviously...

Don't touch the eyes, unless you do not intend for the model to be used other than the "looks" of the morph. (Eg, if you alter the eyes, the eye-lid morphs will not function correctly.)

However, beyond that... It is possible. Even retaining much of the morphing "facial gestures", if you are careful.

Is your end-result a full "cat", or something "cat-like", but identifiable as a human? (Thinking of furries and warewolves, as opposed to a cat and wolf, as the end-result.)

In video, you can also cheat with transitions and close-ups... Focus on the face and upper torso changing, ignore the rest... Get that to match the end-result cat-shape, then swap models to the cat before you pan-out to the cat body, which was the human parts you didn't change, off camera.

You can also extend the illusion, by focusing on certain in-between transitions... Like just showing the hands deforming into something closely resembling a "paw", then moving to another feature like a tail growing... just before the actual paw transition completes. (The brain fills-in the missing details, and assumes it saw the full transition, when you later show the final cat conversion.)

You can deform these models into almost anything. They have enough polygons. Mapping will be the hard part, if you want it to actually function as a cat.

Also, with the morphs, you transition the poses to a stance of a cat, to add to the illusion. (Violent transformations taken into consideration. If it is painful... As opposed to just assuming "the position" of a sitting cat.)

NOTE: The back legs (the reverse knee), is the human ankle. Remember that when you start taking a pose... The toe-bend will be your whole new "lower foot" not just the paw.

WendyLuvsCatz

The body of ManWolf for genesis works quite well but sadly it is a full body morph so adding a cat head difficult

that said two figures making parts invisible may work

squiltz morph is a free program you can use for tweening renders too

JD_Mortal

Also note... There are external morphing programs that output video. (The ones you are looking for are the ones that are not auto-blenders... Image transitions only. You want the one where you draw shapes and points, and it deforms one image to match the next, while blending. Similar to how Daz morphs work, but this is in 2D.)

There was a show where a guy or girl turned into a panther, ages ago... Forgot what it was called... But they would morph the paws, and then the face, and then the torso... all just a little... Then POOF a panther runs out from behind a dumpster or out from around a car, where the guy fell to the floor transforming.

WendyLuvsCatz

http://www.xiberpix.net/SqirlzMorph.html and that is what this is, sorry mispelt it