Howto: Animorph using 'Squirlz Morph'

This is a cool little program that I found that makes little gif or avi morphs of two or more pictures. The result is somewhat like the front covers of the lame little ‘animorphs’ series. Its a pretty cool piece of free software.

1. Downlad and install Squirlz Morph from ‘Download.com’.

2. Get two things that are kind of the same, but still quite different. Faces will work, providing you pick someone with two eyes, one mouth and a nose. Make sure that they are .jpg images.

3. Make them both the same size.

4. Click and drag them into the Squirlz Morph application.

5. Click on the + sign and choose one of your images. Outline all of the important parts of the picture (E.g. Mouth, Eyes nose, hair) with dots. Click to add one. The more dots, the better it comes out.

6. Click on the little arrow button and move the dots that automatically appeared on that image (after you put them onto the other picture) and move them around to the corresponding position.

7. Click on the ‘gif’ button.

8. Go through the gif wizard, and you now have your ‘animorph’!

Test:

The first few things I did with this application didn’t turn out, because they were too complex for a beginner. I finally had to strip it down to really simple objects. Here is the first one that worked: