Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Morphing

Your assignment is to make a morphed composite portrait.

As noted in class, there is not discussion of morphing complete without Michael Jackson's Black or White video.













Nancy Burson personal website.

ArtNet article about a Nancy Burson show in 2002. It is a nice intro to her work.

Nancy Burson: Making Faces is a nice overview of her work.

Village Voice article on Nancy Burson.

Article which talks about Nancy Burson's Age and Race Machine.

Another article about Nancy Burson's Human Race Machine.

ArtForum article on Nancy Burson as inspiration.

Arken Museum's Nancy Burson holdings.

Gerhard Lang's The Typical Inhabitant of Schloss-Nauses 1992/2000
Composite Photography 1/5
1992/2000
was made using film and non-digital methodology.

Very early composite portraits by Francis Galton.

Interesting blurb about Lang's composite image.

Facing Australia - the website of the photographers who completed the Face of Sydney project.

Article about the content of the Facing Australia project.

The official Face of Sydney website.

A Syndey Morning Herald article about the Face of Syndey project.

Face of Sydney video unveiling. Audio serves to provide the context of the images.















Hot or Not composite images.

Abrasoft Fantamorph is the program that the Face of Tomorrow artist used. It is available for PCs and Macs. This is the most full featured morphing software available; as such it isn't free. Here is a little review of Fantamorph.



Quick morph of Britney and Barbie using Fantamorph.




Sqirlz Morph is a free Windows morph application. I saw some images that were put together using it and they looked good. I really like it. It is very simple to use and very intuitive.












This rough image was quickly made using Sqirlz Morph.






FotoMorph is a free Windows morphing application. I haven't used it, but it has ads in it.

Morpheus Photo Morpher Mac is a morphing app for Macs. I haven't figured out if you can save a still image with it yet.

MorphX is a free morphing application for Macs. Works very well. Please see my later posting for a tutorial on its use.

JavaMorph is a platform independant morphing app. As it runs in JAVA, it should run on all OSs. I haven't tried it yet.

WinMorph is a free Windows morphing application. I haven't tried it yet.

FaceMorpher is a Windows morphing app. There is a free Lite version that allows to photos to be merged.

Morph Age - a seemingly feature rich still and video morphing application for the Mac. I haven't tried it yet.

Online Face of Tomorrow face morphing application. It was a little buggy when I tried it.

Museum of Contemporary Photography's bio on Nancy Burson.


Collection of age progression morphing videos.

Article on using Adobe Affects for morphing video.

A collection of links on face processing.

Photo Opportunities - a series of morphed 'snap shots'

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