Hey guys,
I just finished a high-quality morph of John Stone. I'm designing an ad for the forums to go on the homepage of SickOfBeingFat.net, SickOfBeingSkinny.net, and MuscleTank.net before users log in.

First, here's the morph - it turned out pretty nicely. There's only two pics in the morph:
http://www.johnstonefitness.com/all/front/1.jpg http://www.johnstonefitness.com/all/front/817.jpg

Here's the morph:

http://www.sickofbeingfat.net/images/JohnStone2.gif

And finally, below is the ad:

am blown away with it, man!!! :eek: :eek:
awesome work!!! :claplow: :claplow:

That's well cool!

How do you do that? What program do you use? I'd like to do that with my progress pics!!!

that morph pic is too cool. Watching john change from sad to grinning is too class :lol:

I love it, man! Great work as always. :tu:

For all the work I've done with computers over the years, even the simplest of graphics work (which is art any way you slice it, if'n you ask me...) will always impress me. Very cool.

-R

Thats boss. :)

Would you mind saying what you did that with, so I might be able to do the same for my pics ?

That looks great!

Dude that's f*cking awesome graphic artistry! Very nice.

It looks like the morph morphs more smoothly than the ad-I'd
make the ad morph exactly like the original morph. Damn that
word starts to sound strange if you say it enough.

Cant imagine a smoother animation than that! Very nicely done.. going to share how you did it? :D

Awesome work, inspiring images! Thanks boomboom and John!

I also like all the work that John has put in to get his necklace to appear.

I'm around 14% bf, and if im just in the right light you can barely see my necklace. Hopefully I'll be able to develop my necklace enough (and lose enough body fat) so i can strut around on the beach with my necklace. ;)

But seriously, that is some amazing work. Very impressive. I love the effect of his smile getting bigger towards the end too!

Oh, and just out of curiosity, how many pics did you use between the two main ones for the morph?

I love the smile transition as well :tu:

One of the best features of that morph is very symbolic. Look at his smile. He is sad and gloomy in the first one and little by little he smiles. By the time hes jacked, those pearly whites are out and shining. hmmm......

Nice work :)

Thanks guys. Stecman - I only used two pictures for the entire morph (everything else is a combo of the two!) ROTFL on the necklace thing -I toyed with photoshopping it out, but decided to leave it in anyways. I'm toying with the idea of letting users morph their progress pics online, similar to the cropping and the autolighting. The only difference is, it'll take some serious work.

Nico - the blue ad underneath the full morph is only 43K, compared to 450K for the full morph. That is why it's "choppy" - wanted to make it as small as possible since John may use the ad on various sites... which reminds me, I found out about JSF by one of these ads that had a bunch of john's progress pics flash on the screen over each other - does anyone know where this was? (Don't remember how I got here or found this place - the site that had the ad suddenly became unimportant the more i read on JSF)

AWD_ENVY - I used Photoshop for preparing the images, FantaMorph to handle the morphing, Debabelizer to alter the resulting morph and convert/compress to GIF.

Escher - There's a few tricks though to making it look good. Most important is the alignment of the two images. Elements in it must be the same size (especially face, chest, stomach) - I use reference points for this and resize in Photoshop at 75% transparency. I also adjust the color balance and levels of the two images so that the color transition is minimal and smooth.

Background is pretty important - make them match by magic wand selecting background (or magnetic selecting background), inverting, save selection, switch to saved selection channel, gausian blur channel by two or three pixels, switch back to RGB channel, feather selection by 2 pixels, add saved channel selection to this current feathered selection, invert selection, and delete! Use the "after" picture's background color to fill the deleted are of the before picture. Do the same on the "after" picture to get a more even background color.

Also important is sudden differences. Look at the original "before" pic - John's left arm is down by his side. But in the morph the arm is in the same position as the after pic. Just photoshop as many body parts as possible to align with the after pic. If you don't, the morph will show "stretches" and "fadeouts" and won't look authentic (look at the right edge of the right arm during the morph to see a slight fadeout stretch) If I had more time, I would have attempted to align the right arm also before morphing.

Finally, use control points like they are going out of style, but use them in a way that tells a story. The "smile" is a great example: I deliberately moved the control points so they would show the gradual smile throughout the morph - it's cool you guys picked up on that.

Too many control points can cause "creasing" - artifacts that appear when control points overlap and fight for the attention of the morph algorithm. They appear as "dashed lines". Just adjust the control points so that one pair doesn't overlap another pair during the transition. I have found that control points work best when they point the user to areas of interest and structure. Outline certain areas of the body that show movement (arms), but line certain areas of the body that show definition (eyes, nose, collar bone, etc)

Below is a screenshot of my control points.

I am looking forward to doing a killer morph of my brother's transformation, hopefully in 14 to 16 months... :confused:

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen... or something... :claphigh: :claplow: :eek: :drool: :spaz:

look great boomboom, looks even greater on the site!!!
keep well
~yossel

thats super awesome!!!

great work...


I had that program, downloaded it for free but forgot where at... after a few days it was too complicated and I deleted it....

some examples that it had were of George W. Bush and a monkey morphing.... :D

I would think that there are dozens of photos in the animation, but only two...that's really cool.

some examples that it had were of George W. Bush and a monkey morphing.... :D

jgmx, thanks. yeah, the Bush morph was one of my favorites.

Btw, Austin is one of my favorite cities. Best friend went to UT, got his phd in astronomy. Very cool town.

gravityhomer - if i didn't worry about disk space, i'd use maybe three or four more progress photos and blend them all together, make the morph about a minute long... maybe if john ever comes out with a TV commercial (!)

John's progress is really cool. :cool: I calculated that since January 1, 2005, John has lost 10.68 pounds of fat and 10.92 pounds of muscle in his cutting sense he was 213 and 14% then and 191.4 and 10% now. That sounds really good to me to be able to lose almost as much fat as muscle since fat is so hard for people to lose. I am hoping that I can do that good in my cut. I was hoping for maybe a lost of 8 pounds of fat for every 10 or 11 of muscle. Right now I am at 211 and 13% body fat. I'm hoping if I can cut back to about 160 I will be where I want to be and have all the fat off.

Nah, maybe 3 or 4 pounds of muscle lost. About 6 pounds of that weight loss was water, which is considered lean mass.

John's progress is really cool. :cool: I calculated that since January 1, 2005, John has lost 10.68 pounds of fat and 10.92 pounds of muscle in his cutting sense he was 213 and 14% then and 191.4 and 10% now. That sounds really good to me to be able to lose almost as much fat as muscle since fat is so hard for people to lose. I am hoping that I can do that good in my cut. I was hoping for maybe a lost of 8 pounds of fat for every 10 or 11 of muscle. Right now I am at 211 and 13% body fat. I'm hoping if I can cut back to about 160 I will be where I want to be and have all the fat off.

What?! John did make excellent progress. As he said, it was 3-4 pounds of muscle. You should absolutely lose much MORE fat than muscle and actually very minimal amounts of muscle on a proper cut. This is particualrly true of beginners. Some who are new to lifting can even gain a little bit of muscle while losing fat. You should definitley end up well over 160 and have much less muscle loss. You will have success if you use all the resources in these forums. Good luck!

I tried to morph my progress with FantaMorph and here is the result: Morph 2005-05-02 (http://hem.passagen.se/dinoandturbo/transformation/index2.htm)

I must link to this one, but I will try to do a smaller morph later :)

I tried to morph my progress with FantaMorph and here is the result: Morph 2005-05-02 (http://hem.passagen.se/dinoandturbo/transformation/index2.htm)

I must link to this one, but I will try to do a smaller morph later :)

Nice! I would like to see one of your back - (if thats you in the avatar) - your back looks shredded!

Vatechguy was very gracious and morphed my pics. Thanks again, man. Here is the link:

LeftNut's Morph (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/vatechguy/LN2.gif)

Prodigy - Thats a pretty nasty cut on your belly -- what happened?

I tried to morph my progress with FantaMorph and here is the result: Morph 2005-05-02 (http://hem.passagen.se/dinoandturbo/transformation/index2.htm)

I must link to this one, but I will try to do a smaller morph later :)

vatechguy has become a morphing superstar! prodigy - I like your morph too - super smooth.

Nice! I would like to see one of your back - (if thats you in the avatar) - your back looks shredded!

Yes it is me in the avatar. I only have before pictures when I am not flexing, but I will try to morph my back too.

Prodigy - Thats a pretty nasty cut on your belly -- what happened?

I had attacks of biliary colic (a gallstone in the gall bladder that will cause substantial pain in the stomach) for one year ago. They removed my gall bladder and the gallstone that had get caught in the upper gall path. The gallstone that had get caught was big as a golf ball.

vatechguy did me as well. Looks cool.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/vatechguy/henderjr3.gif

After he did it I had to play around with it so I did my own (http://webpages.charter.net/henderjr/Jesse%20Morph.gif) yesterday with some bigger pics. I'll have to do it again when I take new ones this weekend.

Very cool stuff,

Jesse

Nice! I would like to see one of your back - (if thats you in the avatar) - your back looks shredded!
Here is the morph of my back: Morph back 050502 (http://hem.passagen.se/dinoandturbo/transformation/index3.htm) :)

Here is the morph of my back: Morph back 050502 (http://hem.passagen.se/dinoandturbo/transformation/index3.htm) :)

Your back majorly improved. Congrats. What did your weight training look like for your back?

That is so cool!

Your back majorly improved. Congrats. What did your weight training look like for your back?
The last month has been miserable regarding weight training, but I have tried to follow this for my back once a week:

3x Hyper Extensions with weight (6-10 reps)
3x Dumbbell Shrugs (4-8 reps)
3x Dumbbell Rows (4-6 reps)

Rear Delts:
3x Standing Bent-over Rear Lateral Raises (4-8 reps)

Those morphs are really kick ass. I would think someone could have a successful website based on just taking people's photos and creating morphs for them and charging like $20 or $30 for a customized morph.

I'd like to get one of myself but not till I make some more progress! :bb: