Things that are probably inspired by Animorphs

[Andalite_Shorm]

Let's face facts that most all films and books are probably someone who's read or watched a book/film of the previous generation and thought, "When I grow up, I'm going to write something like that" and Animorphs is no different XD

I'd definitely say James Cameron (the creator of Avatar) was a fan at some stage; although the movie has a very different storyline from Animorphs, there's still the blue aliens (Na'vi) and the main character is called Jake, brother to the deceased Tom
I suppose you could say the way the humans go into their avatar bodies is similar to morphing too

There's a webcomic I read called Dark White which, again, is not similar story-wise to Animorphs but does contain werewolves that can shapeshift at will and a creature known as Oracle who looks very, very similar to an Andalite
There's a link to Oracle's concept art and the website for the comic http://www.darkwhitecomic.com/wp-content/gallery/art-gallery/oracle_chsketchweb.jpg

Regardless I still love all three of these things But is there anything you guys have watched where you're like, "Mmm Animorphs" or even is there anything you think Animorphs was inspired by?

[skjaedigare]

Not a serious answer, but the first time i saw this, the Animorphs were the first thing to come to mind:

[NothingFromSomething]

Well, Cameron wrote Avatar in like '94/'95, so the broad concept for that predates Animorphs.

Hm, I don't know if anything's coming to mind for stuff directly inspired by it, though I guess a lot of the modern young adult fiction stuff shares a lot of similarities and chances are the authors might be familiar with it.

I watched the 1993 Body Snatchers remake a while back though.  Way better than the recent Nicole Kidman/Daniel Craig version, and while the specifics of it are pretty different to Animorphs, it really, really frickin' really shares the same paranoid tone/vibe.  And for that it's just awesome, about the most Animorphs-y thing I've seen.  And the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (and I suppose the remake which was pretty fresh and recent when Animorphs started) have been said by K.A. to be big inspirations for the series.