I still remember the first time I saw that effect in Michael Jackson's Black Or White, I was all crazy trying to think how they had done it, without a doubt the king of pop was ahead of time. Thanks for this great tutorial, a hug and success.
When I saw the announcement for this tutorial, I thought: this is the best morph I've seen since the Black and White video. Really fantastic how you explain the initial preparation on the shoot and all the tools and how they work. This is a perfect tutorial.
@@flo.motion Well its a very well planned shot with a lot of Physical things also happening onset. Its far from the best ever any more. Its just the one that is clearly a morph. The best morphs being done these days are invisable effects. Black and White is very good though and does hold up. LIke they comp in hair swinging in one person before they start the morph. Thats just good planning.
I love the way you explain how the tools work instead of just using them and letting others figure it out,it is part of what makes you a very special tutor. I was also unaware of the morph cut tool in Premiere heh! Well done as always and thanks for the time you spent.
I finally figured it out! So I think the reason some people dislike your videos is because they're new to After Effects so they won't know what a key is or that you have to click on the stopwatch.. so when you put "easy" on the tutorial they're gonna want you to explain everything in detail. I've been using After Effects for awhile so I figured everything out but someone who has never used it would be lost without a background in the program
The best teacher i have ever seen , i m Alone at home and you are so clear with a powerful knowledge!!! Thank you so much to be there !!! Go on !! I will follow you every Time !! You are a genius
@@flo.motion Thanks so much to take Time to answer, you are unbelivable!!! It’s the first time i leave a comment for your work but i follow you for a long time, and i hope you will continue , i love to learn with you, your way is so professional!!🙏🙏🙏👍👍😇
You did nothing wrong you presented this tutorial so unique and cool. Those who disliked this video and many more just hated maybe on you the awesome person you are and your talent. Simply that 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Good tutorial. I really liked the extra time you spent going over parts of the Liquify tool, and that Morph Cut transition will be something I can use for sure.
One thing I love about this tutorial is it explains the idea behind the process first. Too many tutorials just go step by step without explaining WHY you are doing what you are doing.
That is exactly what I tr to do all the time!! If you know what is behind an effect, you can do it in any tool... like a glow is basically a blur... simple things!!
Dude - you're sick - keep doing what you're doing. The people who gave you a thumbs down on this video are probably noobs looking for a quick/lazy fix for their morph cut problems.
Thanks for this tutorial I really learnt alot. All this time I mostly had a jump cut in my interview videos but after watching this I have a solution. Thanks again. Awesome tutorial.
That is a great use of the morph, being able to blend the jump cut in Premiere. I immediately checked my Final Cut Pro on the G5 and sure enough, it is not available in the menu. So I checked AE on the G5 and you guessed it, not available in the menu. SMH I was so pumped up to try it out that I turned to my imaginary girl friend and asked her if she wanted to morph with me but since she is imaginary, wasn't on the menu. That video of you two dancing at the beginning and end and reading the book was cute. You have great chemistry together.
@@flo.motion Yeah, Dinosaurs in Omas Garten. But I don't see it anymore when I scroll down your page. I still see the great tutorial of you riding the 3D dino and that same costume at the beginning. I must have been dreaming, time difference of a million years.
Iv been looking for a good Morph Tutorial for Years, all I get was people morphing still image to still image, I wanted a Video to Video, Thank you sir, you got yourself a Sub Bro
Since I was little and saw the MJ video i was waiting for a software to have a simple drag and drop transition. Thumbs up for the tutorial and for the editors VFX artist of the video back then
Wow, great tutorial. I love that you can achieve great results in just a few simple steps. You just have to know, and that's what you achieved for me. Will try it today. Thanks
@@flo.motion i do a lot of drone shots and I don't like the boring cuts and transitions in the areal videos. Maybe I can combine the morph with zoom to get more flowing transitions and get the videos more dynamic. What do u think?
Hey! How did you keep the light constant in the middle of the opacity cut? Although I manage to make the morphing look good, the cut is given away by the difference in opacity. Even though both videos were recorded with the same lighting scheme. It's as if there was a small dip in the light during the morphing transition.
my opacity slider just refuses to work. it works every time I make a new project but as soon as i move one of my layers there is nothing i can do with the transparency
Cool tutorial. Also you can use other distortion methods, like Reshape, Mesh Warp, Puppet tool or even use Mask with its vertices linked to Puppets through Duik bones (thats may be quite complicated). Do you know about ReVision ReFlex Plug-ins? With ReVision ReFlex Warp or ReFlex Motion Morph you can achieve better results and a lot quicker.
Hey! Exactly! The method stays the same, it is a mixture of warping and blending! Some of the tools you mention have some limitations, for example Reshape only allows for one mask (as far as I know) And also ReFlex does exactly the same! The only difference is that they have some special features, like automatically align the images or features in the image and edge detection. But the animation process is the same, you animate the warp and the blending and create a morph by that! By the way: The morph in the beginning where we took a picture on each birthday was done with ReFlex Motion Morph!!
@@flo.motion in reflex you could use a lot of masks on one layer for small details, and it is possible to animate mask path instead of blend amount. So i think ReFlex is simpler and faster, but unfortunately it is paid.
Hi, did u use the same technique for the example of all the photos of three people standing with a banner in the beginning of the video? The morph looks really great there.
In terms of the shooting side of this, how precise do you have to be in the original alignment of the talent faces? I presume you couldn't blend 2 continuous talking shots cos there's 2 much movement. Thanks, love your work!
Hey, that is indeed tricky! And the words would need to line up perfect!! So for example in a music video you could do it! I tried that a few years ago: th-cam.com/video/PhDtJG7C_qg/w-d-xo.html This is basically a morph over 3 minutes... but also the eyes and so on are really differnet to achieve! Maybe you could try morph it, and then track one mouth shape over it? Really curious to see your result!!
Haha... I am not even sure if After Effects existed back then! They used a special program that was specifically written for those shots! There was no graphic interface back then. Think about it in that way: The only saw some code on their monitors, hit the render button or typed in "render.exe", waited for a few days and could then see the result and tweak the code from there...
Hyeee... I'm happy I found you... This tutorial is indeed very helpful for people who could morph simple objects ...But I don't even start with it ...Could you please spoon food "morphing" to newbie like me.
Servus, wie gut geht es dir heute! Weil ich behaupte herauszuhören, dass du Deutsch deine Muttersprache ist (vermutlich denkst du, "es ist auch nicht schwer zu erkennen"), schreibe ich auf Deutsch. Hier geht es aber um deine Skills. Die finde ich sehr beeindruckend und deine Tipps hilfreich! Danke! Habe auch deinen Kanal aboniert!
@@flo.motion Hi. Immer mal wieder phasenweise. Am Stück kann ich das nicht sagen. ... aber ich bin vom Niveau eher wie ein "aufgestiegener Anfänger". ... :) Deine Skills sind wirklich profi-haft! WIe ich schon sagte, sobald ich an einem Projekt komme und AE Einsatz gefragt ist, komme ich auf dich zurück. ... Magst du mir eine E-Mail schicken, wo du mir deinen Tagessatz nennst?! Vielen Dank. choose2behappy@gmx.de
Dude your tutorials are so underestimated. Amazing, loved that you give such a detail explaining. Subbed and liked. Question: you worked with 15frames, usually I work transactions with 7 frames.. I think if you worked with 7frames would be easier and faster. What do u think? Last but not least I loved the morph you did with your friend shots. You should have showed that too!
I'm looking for it and can't find it, I want the morph effect with several photos from very young to present day like a timeline of faces as the face goes to the other smoothly and if possible I can blink :( there is a video on facebook about what I say is called (Alizee Happy Birthday) so I want to make a video but no tutorials ;(
Good Point! I also have their plugins and they are absolutely great!! But in this tutorial I wanted to show you a method on how to do it without plugin, as they are indeed a bit expensive if you only want to do it for fun! But the triplet shot in the beginning was done with RE:Flex
is it possible to do this on a precomposed layer? I want a shatter to morph into text. I'm really new to this whole editing thing (with after effects at least), and there's so much to explore that I'm getting a little overwhelmed and the things I really want to do seem to be impossible, any ideas?
It's so crazy how old that effect is and people are still trying to replicate it, it was so well done in the Black Or White video!
you are totally right! And still no real idea how they achieved it!!
@@flo.motionIt was done using elastic reality which was discontinued back in 1999.
@@RBahn1Interesting comment. Please tell me more 🙏🏿🥺
I still remember the first time I saw that effect in Michael Jackson's Black Or White, I was all crazy trying to think how they had done it, without a doubt the king of pop was ahead of time. Thanks for this great tutorial, a hug and success.
Hey, it is still to these days an un-reached morph effect! The were really pioneers!!
When I saw the announcement for this tutorial, I thought: this is the best morph I've seen since the Black and White video. Really fantastic how you explain the initial preparation on the shoot and all the tools and how they work. This is a perfect tutorial.
Thank you so so much!! Yes Black and White, really did a fantastic job! Hard to come close to this level!! Even 30 years later...
@@flo.motion Well its a very well planned shot with a lot of Physical things also happening onset. Its far from the best ever any more. Its just the one that is clearly a morph. The best morphs being done these days are invisable effects. Black and White is very good though and does hold up. LIke they comp in hair swinging in one person before they start the morph. Thats just good planning.
I love the way you explain how the tools work instead of just using
them and letting others figure it out,it is part of what makes you a
very special tutor.
I was also unaware of the morph cut tool in Premiere heh!
Well done as always and thanks for the time you spent.
Thank you so much for always taking your time for some nice feedback!!!!
This is the best morphing tutorial I've ever seen 🔥
True
I finally figured it out! So I think the reason some people dislike your videos is because they're new to After Effects so they won't know what a key is or that you have to click on the stopwatch.. so when you put "easy" on the tutorial they're gonna want you to explain everything in detail. I've been using After Effects for awhile so I figured everything out but someone who has never used it would be lost without a background in the program
You got it!! Thanks for taking the time... I found, that ignoring the dislikes is the best way to do it...
@@flo.motion I used it for a Werewolf transformation I'll post it soon
The best teacher i have ever seen , i m Alone at home and you are so clear with a powerful knowledge!!! Thank you so much to be there !!! Go on !! I will follow you every Time !! You are a genius
Wow! Thank you so much for the comment!! Really means a lot to me!!
@@flo.motion Thanks so much to take Time to answer, you are unbelivable!!!
It’s the first time i leave a comment for your work but i follow you for a long time, and i hope you will continue , i love to learn with you, your way is so professional!!🙏🙏🙏👍👍😇
You did nothing wrong you presented this tutorial so unique and cool. Those who disliked this video and many more just hated maybe on you the awesome person you are and your talent. Simply that 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Hey! Thank you so so much for your kind words!!
This trick with morph cut while editing interviews is super helpful, thanks a lot man!
Thanks for watching and commenting!!
Nochmals, neben deiner exzellenten englischen Sprache, ist dieses Video, das ich zum ersten Mal sehe, exzellent!
Vielen Dank!
Tausend Dand für das sehr nette Feedback!!
You’re hands down my favorite TH-camr to learn from. Keep up the amazing work. A million thumbs up 👍🏽
Thanks a million times!! Once for each thumbs up!!
Selten so ein gutes und vor allem heftig informatives Tutorial gesehen. Richtig nice wie du die Tools auch erstmal erklärst. Mega was gelernt.
Freu mich mega über deinen Kommentar!! DANKE!!
Good tutorial. I really liked the extra time you spent going over parts of the Liquify tool, and that Morph Cut transition will be something I can use for sure.
Yes! As I told you, I use the morph cut in almost each interview scene I do!
smoothest thing seen today !!!
One thing I love about this tutorial is it explains the idea behind the process first. Too many tutorials just go step by step without explaining WHY you are doing what you are doing.
That is exactly what I tr to do all the time!! If you know what is behind an effect, you can do it in any tool... like a glow is basically a blur... simple things!!
Whaaaaat da fuuuuq?! The morph cut effect is mind blowing. Woooow
It is indeed!!
That is amazing!!! Holy moly
Holy moly!! Thanks a lot!!
Dude - you're sick - keep doing what you're doing. The people who gave you a thumbs down on this video are probably noobs looking for a quick/lazy fix for their morph cut problems.
Thank you so so much for your nice words!! #motivation!!
The best morphing tutorial I've found. Thanks for this.
Thanks for the nice words!! Happy you liked it
Instant shaving. I like it. Great for lockdown.
Would also be great for my haircut!!
Err, for your hair growth you mean...it's certainly growing quickly here. Seriously, great tut. Love it.
Thanks for this tutorial I really learnt alot. All this time I mostly had a jump cut in my interview videos but after watching this I have a solution. Thanks again. Awesome tutorial.
Yes! Once you know about it, you wonder how you have ever lived without it...
I just found your YT and I think you are my new favorite tutorial channel. Thank you so so much
thank you so much for your kind words!!
That is a great use of the morph, being able to blend the jump cut in Premiere. I immediately checked my Final Cut Pro on the G5 and sure enough, it is not available in the menu. So I checked AE on the G5 and you guessed it, not available in the menu. SMH I was so pumped up to try it out that I turned to my imaginary girl friend and asked her if she wanted to morph with me but since she is imaginary, wasn't on the menu.
That video of you two dancing at the beginning and end and reading the book was cute. You have great chemistry together.
Reading the book? Dancing?
@@flo.motion Yeah, Dinosaurs in Omas Garten. But I don't see it anymore when I scroll down your page. I still see the great tutorial of you riding the 3D dino and that same costume at the beginning. I must have been dreaming, time difference of a million years.
Incredible! You are getting better and better! Keep it up!
Thanks a lot!! That really means a lot to me! Would you like to see more tutorials with this girl??
Iv been looking for a good Morph Tutorial for Years, all I get was people morphing still image to still image, I wanted a Video to Video, Thank you sir, you got yourself a Sub Bro
Thank you so much for your kind words!!
I’m working on a project morphing a still image to still image. Can you recommend one?
Since I was little and saw the MJ video i was waiting for a software to have a simple drag and drop transition.
Thumbs up for the tutorial and for the editors VFX artist of the video back then
Thanks a lot!! Yes, those effects are still unreached!!
Brilliant tutorial 👏
Tnx
SUPER cool !!!!!! Thanks dude! :)
Thanks a lot!!
Nice and smooth, i have missed you flomotion
Haha... missed you too!!
@@flo.motion please may i write you on whatsapp sir ☺☺?
Gave you a thumbs up dude.. thanks for the post. Appreciated.
You are welcome
Bro this is brilliant!! Much better than other similar tutorials. Thank you!!!
TNX!!
this was crazy helpful
Thank you!!
I'd love you forever if you did just a video of people morphing the tutorial was fantastic I would love to see a video of different people morphing 😊😊
Not quite sure, but wasn't that exactly what this tutorial was showing to you? I morphed one person to another...?? Or did I miss something??
I must have confused you sorry I was meaning like just a video clip no tutorial of more people morphing
Thank you for great lessons...Bravo Bravo
Thanks a lot!!
Great Explanation and step by step guide, loved the tutorial. Keep up the tutorials...
Thanks a lot for the nice Feedback!! I ll do my best to keep you happy!!
Great job
tnx
Thank you!!
tnx!!
Hi! such a nice tutorial! I have a question is it doable if the 1st face and 2nd face have a different angle?
well... still doable, but the result will not be that nice
Thank you so much for tutorial ❤
Thanks for watching
Excellent tutorial. Thank you!
Thanks a lot!!
Well done, great explanation.
Thank you
Wow, great tutorial. I love that you can achieve great results in just a few simple steps. You just have to know, and that's what you achieved for me. Will try it today. Thanks
Hey Chris! Thanks again for the nice words! Let me see your result!!
@@flo.motion i do a lot of drone shots and I don't like the boring cuts and transitions in the areal videos. Maybe I can combine the morph with zoom to get more flowing transitions and get the videos more dynamic. What do u think?
the best morphin ever made i saw in Willow the movie...
oh, I have to check that out
Fin Raziel Morphin..@@flo.motion
nice work bro keep going ♥
I ll try my best!! Thanks a lot!!
love this thank you for making this video
Thanks a lot for your comment!!
Thanks, Buddy...Its Excellent.
Thank you!!
your the best 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
THANK YOUUUUUUU!!!!
Wow fantastic trick without third party plugin
Indeed!! Thanks a lot!!
Tks for sharing your knowledge
Tks for watching!!
This was an epic tutorial!
Thanks a lot!!
that was epic. thank u. subbed.
thanks a lot!! happy you liked it!!
Good tips!
Thanks a lot!!
Excellent video, it was really entertaining
Thanks for the nice feedback!!
Thanks you show much I was waiting for this video now finally its come
Hey!! Happy you like it!!
Really appreciated it!
Me too!!
Awesome my friend!
Thanks a lot!!
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çok memnun oldum!
awesome! Thank you so so much
Thanks a lot!!!!
Wow!! This is so cool. I learned a lot. Thank you!!
Hey! Thank you so much for your comment!!
Great tutorial ❤️❤️❤️ how did u make her talk
🤔
Hey! How did you keep the light constant in the middle of the opacity cut? Although I manage to make the morphing look good, the cut is given away by the difference in opacity. Even though both videos were recorded with the same lighting scheme. It's as if there was a small dip in the light during the morphing transition.
Have you triee adding a cleanplate behind it? Actually there should be no light shift... ...strange
Great information!
Thanks a ton!!
God bless u tysm
You too!! Thanks a lot!!
Good tutorial 👍
Thanks a lot!!
Wahnsinn!!!! Danke!!!!
Gerne!! Schön dass es dir gefällt!!
Great work!
thanks a lot!!
This is a bit like the doctor who regeneration scene when one actor who plays The Doctor transforms into the Next
Totally!
Thats Great 👍
Thank you!!
Cool!
thanks!!
my opacity slider just refuses to work. it works every time I make a new project but as soon as i move one of my layers there is nothing i can do with the transparency
really? You mean your opacity in the transform settings, right? Have you tried the shortcut "t"?
Cool tutorial. Also you can use other distortion methods, like Reshape, Mesh Warp, Puppet tool or even use Mask with its vertices linked to Puppets through Duik bones (thats may be quite complicated). Do you know about ReVision ReFlex Plug-ins? With ReVision ReFlex Warp or ReFlex Motion Morph you can achieve better results and a lot quicker.
Hey!
Exactly! The method stays the same, it is a mixture of warping and blending! Some of the tools you mention have some limitations, for example Reshape only allows for one mask (as far as I know) And also ReFlex does exactly the same! The only difference is that they have some special features, like automatically align the images or features in the image and edge detection. But the animation process is the same, you animate the warp and the blending and create a morph by that! By the way: The morph in the beginning where we took a picture on each birthday was done with ReFlex Motion Morph!!
@@flo.motion in reflex you could use a lot of masks on one layer for small details, and it is possible to animate mask path instead of blend amount. So i think ReFlex is simpler and faster, but unfortunately it is paid.
thats tight tight tight
Thank you!!
i give you thumb up because you remind me only 😂😂
😎😎
It's amazing... 🙂
Thanks a lot!!
Keep it up!!
Never, Never, Never Give Up
Nope... never!!
Hi, did u use the same technique for the example of all the photos of three people standing with a banner in the beginning of the video? The morph looks really great there.
I did... indeed... and it took me weeks to finalize it... 🥴🥴😵😵
By the way: that is me an my two brothers!
tumps up to u
no, thumbs up to you!!
In terms of the shooting side of this, how precise do you have to be in the original alignment of the talent faces? I presume you couldn't blend 2 continuous talking shots cos there's 2 much movement. Thanks, love your work!
Hey, that is indeed tricky! And the words would need to line up perfect!! So for example in a music video you could do it! I tried that a few years ago: th-cam.com/video/PhDtJG7C_qg/w-d-xo.html
This is basically a morph over 3 minutes... but also the eyes and so on are really differnet to achieve! Maybe you could try morph it, and then track one mouth shape over it? Really curious to see your result!!
@@flo.motion Ah that makes sense! Thanks Flo
make a tutorial with the sequence of photos, which you put at the beginning
Hey, that is done in the same way... and then of course you have to do it 36 times! Tooke me over one month to get it done!!
This is brilliant! Thank you.
Thanks a lot!!
I see you already mastered the clone stamp tool before being born
Haha right!!
What about Michael Jackson's video Black Or White..? Was it the same technique with Liquify tools on that time..?
Haha... I am not even sure if After Effects existed back then! They used a special program that was specifically written for those shots! There was no graphic interface back then. Think about it in that way: The only saw some code on their monitors, hit the render button or typed in "render.exe", waited for a few days and could then see the result and tweak the code from there...
Hyeee...
I'm happy I found you...
This tutorial is indeed very helpful for people who could morph simple objects ...But I don't even start with it ...Could you please spoon food "morphing" to newbie like me.
Haha... ok, got you! I am on it!!
Servus, wie gut geht es dir heute!
Weil ich behaupte herauszuhören, dass du Deutsch deine Muttersprache ist (vermutlich denkst du, "es ist auch nicht schwer zu erkennen"), schreibe ich auf Deutsch.
Hier geht es aber um deine Skills. Die finde ich sehr beeindruckend und deine Tipps hilfreich!
Danke!
Habe auch deinen Kanal aboniert!
Hey! Hier auch nochmal vielen Dank!! Wie lange arbeitest du schon mit After Effects?
@@flo.motion Hi. Immer mal wieder phasenweise. Am Stück kann ich das nicht sagen. ... aber ich bin vom Niveau eher wie ein "aufgestiegener Anfänger". ... :)
Deine Skills sind wirklich profi-haft!
WIe ich schon sagte, sobald ich an einem Projekt komme und AE Einsatz gefragt ist, komme ich auf dich zurück. ... Magst du mir eine E-Mail schicken, wo du mir deinen Tagessatz nennst?! Vielen Dank.
choose2behappy@gmx.de
Dude your tutorials are so underestimated. Amazing, loved that you give such a detail explaining. Subbed and liked. Question: you worked with 15frames, usually I work transactions with 7 frames.. I think if you worked with 7frames would be easier and faster. What do u think? Last but not least I loved the morph you did with your friend shots. You should have showed that too!
Thank you so so much!! Really such a nice comment!! You mean the other morph with my triplet brothers?
@@flo.motion yes! Is there a video for that too?
Don't worry mate....most of the times the thumbs down are from the people who are idiots and don't value art❤️
Keep going buddy.
Thanks a lot for the motivation!! Keep it up!!
I'm looking for it and can't find it, I want the morph effect with several photos from very young to present day like a timeline of faces as the face goes to the other smoothly and if possible I can blink :( there is a video on facebook about what I say is called (Alizee Happy Birthday) so I want to make a video but no tutorials ;(
Hey, have you watched my video about that? Because I did exactly what you are saying with the technique that I explain in this video!!
Love you sir...
Love you too!!
What a genius, hahahaha, thanks for sharing
Thanks a lot!!
FANTÀSTIC!
TNX!!
ignore the thumbs down they are just jealous of ur skill
Haha... Thanks a lot!!
Awesome
thanks!!
Nice!
thanks!!
Can we make a cg animated face morph to another animated face?
Why not?
Can you say how to download after effects cc for free for windows 7 32 bit ??.
And it was verrrry amazing...
Hey! Thanks... ...and why don't you just buy it? A single license is not that expensive at all these days...
REVisionFX plug-ins - RE:Flex MORPH & RE:Flex WARP
Good Point! I also have their plugins and they are absolutely great!! But in this tutorial I wanted to show you a method on how to do it without plugin, as they are indeed a bit expensive if you only want to do it for fun! But the triplet shot in the beginning was done with RE:Flex
hei, thanks.
thank a lot!!
Can i achieve the morphing effect on a different background but rotoscoped adding a clean plate?
for sure you can! simply roto or key it out first and do the exact same process!
@@flo.motion thanks a bunch, i so much appreciate. 💯❤️
Which software it is..?🙏
It's a secret!!
is it possible to do this on a precomposed layer? I want a shatter to morph into text. I'm really new to this whole editing thing (with after effects at least), and there's so much to explore that I'm getting a little overwhelmed and the things I really want to do seem to be impossible, any ideas?
of course! You can do that on a picture, video, layer, composition or pre-comp... the sky is the limit!!
@@flo.motion I was just struggling with liquify, it doesn't seem to work on precomposed layers is all, but I figured a workaround nonetheless!