I like morphing pictures, but I would like to try to morph some short video clips or GIFs. Possibly some belly expansions, add movement/kicking, or just to make a girls belly bigger (or preferably huge!). I am able to do belly expansion animations in GIMP, but it is very limited and doesn't look very good (realistic) when applied to a photo. GIMP also allows me to morph a GIF, but you have to go frame by frame and so it is nearly impossible to have a smooth animation. I can also animate bumps/kicks and other motion of bellies but again, it doesn't look very good when applied to a still photo and is generally limited.

My goal would be to create some video morphs like cheviot did years ago of the movie 'Waiting' where the girl comes up out of the water and her belly starts to grow to massive proportions while she stands there in the water. That is the best video morph I know of and I am not sure how he did that, especially 15 years ago- we should be able to do at least as good today I would think.

So, any tips on software or ideas to make this happen? I am not opposed top paying for the right software.

If I can't make this work, I may go back to some 3d work in DAZ which I experimented with a few months ago but found my hardware seriously lacking.

PS: I attached a short DAZ GIF as an attention getter. This is the type of thing I want to do except in a real video, not computer animation.

Yeah, I wish I knew how to properly morph videos as well. The method I use is using GIMP to morph individual frames of a gif and then overlay sound, but this is only a useful method if said gif has <300 frames (it's very hard to find a good, editable belly gif with <300 frames), otherwise it becomes horrendously taxing on my computer, and regardless is pretty tedious.

If only the VFX guys who made the Alien vs. Predator belly scene would enlighten us...

Thanks for the input. Its surprising we would have to resort to morphing frame by frame in this day and age. Maybe I'll just have to work on CGI stuff for animation.

The way it's done in CGI is with body part replacement and motion tracking. You put a few reference spots on your model, create a digital prosthetic and motion track it to the on-screen motion of the actor.

(September 17, 2018, 9:13 pm)Mark Stretch The way it's done in CGI is with body part replacement and motion tracking. You put a few reference spots on your model, create a digital prosthetic and motion track it to the on-screen motion of the actor.

So what software is used to do this?

I would like to see this scene from the movie Waiting. Where can we find it?

(September 19, 2018, 5:06 am)Daraen9746 I would like to see this scene from the movie Waiting. Where can we find it?

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