- Client Projects
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Orell Füssli Billboard
Client: Orell Füssli
Production Company: ABSOLUTTURNUS AG
Morphing: Dany Bittel
"The swiss production company Absolutturnus created this tv billboard for the biggest book seller in switzerland. It was shot in front of greenscreen in HD, then every actor was rescaled and color corrected individually for best match in SD. The morphing was done with RE:Flex directly in After Effects. It was easy for Dany Bittel to acquire the necessary knowledge for the morphing, because RE:Flex integrates as an effect easily into AE and uses the standard masking. There was no need to change the workflow." -
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"Stipple Guy"
Client: Wall Street Journal
Production Company: Wild Brain
Director: Gordon Clark
"The whole idea of the job was that it had to look like the [the Journal's] very classic and precious illustrative style," Clark expalins. "It means you had to have all these little tiny dots, and they had to move with the character. It was about the scariest idea possible for animation. [...] We must have tried about eight or ten different things, and none of them worked," reports Clark. "We even tried making a 3-D model head [on the computer] and roto-ing that." Finally, they found a solution. "It was a program called RE:Flex." Read More. -
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Starry Eyed Surprise
Artist: Paul Oakenfold
Director: Laura Kelly, Production Company: Partizan
© 2003 Maverick Recording Company
- Demonstration Examples
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In all the examples below we mention "from" and "to" geometries. In all the RE:Flex plugins you specify places on a picture to warp "from" and, in addition, where those places should be warped "to." The "from" and "to" geometries need not be closed shapes and do not need to have the same number of controls points.
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Footage Playing Through Warp
A warp is set up then some footage is played "through" the warp. In this example, "from" and "to" geometry sets are set up and the same warp is used for all frames of some footage. Note that the geometries are not closed or connected. Footage courtesy of Videometry.
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Simple Warp
In this case, the "from" geometry is animated in addition to the "to" geometry, so that a warp can follow moving action.
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Warp Following Moving Action
A simple warp is animated (the "from" geometry is kept still, but the "to" geometry is gradually grown big), causing the eyes to "bulge."
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Morph Between Two Images
A morph is created between two images. Note that with RE:Flex more than one morph can be set up on the timeline, so that a sequence of images can morph successivley one to another.
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Morph Between Two Images II
By animating the dissolve at each shape individually, we can make the hair transition faster and the facial features (eyes, nose and mouth) linger longer. Compare this animation to the one in the previous example.
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Smart Blend
In most morph programs, when features of one image match to something out of frame in the other image it's very hard to get a satisfactory morph. Either you have to squash and stretch objects at the edge of the frame to get complete pixel coverage, or you have to live with areas fading in and out. RE:Flex provides a "smart blend" feature that allows you create a morph without having to squash and stretch, nor have fading areas during the morph.
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Moving Morph
A moving morph is demonstrated.