Book cover transitions

[Adam]

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?

Thanks,
Adam

[NickDaGriff]

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.

[Adam]

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... https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9525996/1/Seer

I wanted to start doing these properly for when I do my continuation of the series.

[Essam 293]

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.

[donut]

That's actually not too bad.  It looks better than a few of the ones they actually made.