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Offline Adam

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Book cover transitions
« on: July 28, 2014, 10:47:24 AM »
Hi everyone! Me again!

Does anybody know how the cover transition intermediates were created? The half-human half-animal images. I'm curious because I'd like to make covers for my own continuation of the series!

I have photoshop, so maybe I could do something on that?

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Re: Book cover transitions
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2014, 04:12:46 PM »
I know a few of them were done with CGI (some more obviously than others), a couple look like they were just painted (digitally?), and the rest were painted/photographed and photomorphed together.  There are a number of programs out there that will take an image and blend it into another using automated or user-specified reference points. 

I can't recommend any specific programs, as I've never done this myself, but a few google searches for photomorphing tutorials should help you out.  There's probably a good Photoshop technique or two for it also.  Photoshop is amazing.
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Re: Book cover transitions
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2014, 09:34:38 AM »
Tried it manually in photoshop, and it was a little more successful than I thought it would be!

For anyone who actually wants to read it... :P https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9525996/1/Seer

I wanted to start doing these properly for when I do my continuation of the series.
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Re: Book cover transitions
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2014, 10:48:07 AM »
Apparently David B. Mattingly (original Animorphs cover artist) used a program called Elastic Reality from Avid, which is now no longer available.

However, there's a great tutorial by Aizxana at DeviantArt (Part 1, Part 2) that uses a mix of Sqirlz Morph and Photoshop.


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Re: Book cover transitions
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2014, 09:05:01 PM »
That's actually not too bad.  It looks better than a few of the ones they actually made.