Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) Required for Morph Age Version 4.0
Morphing and Warping for Mac
Morph Age is an application for morphing/warping images and movies on Mac OS X, such as faces, and save the result to a QuickTime movie.
Morph Age works by allowing you to define curves on one or more images. Any change made on the curves is reflected on the resulting image through the corresponding distorsion and morphing effect.
Morph Age can also work from QuickTime movies as curves can be animated with keyframed motion. One talking face can be morphed into another talking face as they are talking!
Regular and Pro Versions
Morph Age comes in 2 different versions, Regular and Pro.This table has a summary of the differences between both versions:
| 3.x | 4.x | 4.x Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiger Compatible | Yes | No | No |
| Leopard Compatible | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Real Time Prototyping | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Smart Assist | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Motion/Blend Curve Editing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image Input | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Movie Input | No | No | Yes |
Blazingly fast GPU-based rendering
Hit play, Morph Age renders in real-time, whatever image size. Morph Age has an extremely fast rendering engine that combines CPU operations (optimized for Intel Macs) and GPU, or graphics card, power. It enables real-time rendering on mega pixel images still being accurate to sub-pixel. Moreover, the latest version of Morph Age even added support for the Core Image library of Mac OS X for filtering, also executed on the graphics card for maximum performance.
Definitely Mac
Morph Age is a Mac software from the start. You can import various image formats from any sources, including direct access to your iPhoto and iMovie media. You can even use your iSight, which is bundled with almost every mac nowadays, directly from within Morph Age to import a picture or animation. The rendered animation is in QuickTime format, enabling further composition in Final Cut Pro or iMovie, or even export it to your video iPod!
Controlling the morphing animation
Morph Age can animate warp curves independently, so that different parts of the image moves at different times (the eyes, then the ears, then the mouth...). Also, animation effects are available, such as springy motion. Morph Age shows the result in real time, so that you can quickly and easily prototype the transformation.
Non-linear transformations
In Morph Age, not only shapes and curves can be animated at will, in a fully controlled way, but also blending. Blending tells what amount, or percentage, of the first image that you want to combine with the second one. In a man to tiger morphing animation for instance, it makes it possible to have a man quickly show up with the tiger fur while still having human traits. Or in a man to man project, have a 30/70 mix for the traits, while having a 60/40 on textures for interesting effects.
Sub-pixel Accuracy
Morph Age has full support for zooming and scrolling capabilities. Morph Age offers subpixel accuracy, zooming allows precise curve placement. This permits fine tuning of the curves that define the transformation, thus avoiding the "ghost" effect typical of morphing applications. Fine tuning of curves is seen in real-time in the interactive preview panel.
Zooming
Zooming allows accurate curve placement. This is necessary as Morph Age offers sub-pixel accuracy. The real-time preview rendering can also be zoomed and can serve to assist precise curve placement.
Colorizing
Morph Age has colorizing options that makes it possible for Hulk-like warp effects. This works by allowing the user to define, independently for each curve, a color that will "bleed" on the underlying image parts. This color bleeding is animated consistently with the deformation.
Layers
Layers in Morph Age is a way to express that parts of the image are above others. This is used to express that the chin is above the clothes and that whenever the chin is moved downwards, it should pass over them (and not under).
Real-time Rendering
Morph Age uses advanced GPU rendering techniques, allowing real-time preview even for mega-pixels images.