G11-Final-Report

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PRESENTING RESULTS FOR GROUP 11

Group Members : Kelly Darby
I worked by myself to create this project. I received help from Jon Schwartz with Adobe Premiere.

Final Results ( PREFER SIZES of about 800x600 )

final video.wmv

What IMAGES were used ( PREFER SIZES of about 400x300)

Actual images also availible to download on the attach page.

DESCRIPTION

What were the goals?

1)Create successful morphs of natural images to architecture images. Make an easy to understand comparison between what was an inspiration for the architecture and resulting structure.
2)Stitch each of the morphs into one long movie set to music that will be informative as well as relaxing to view.

How stock footage was captured

Most of the nature pictures were gathered from Google Image Search. This way I could sift through lots of pertinent material and select pictures that would morph together the most effectively. The pictures of the architecture were gathered through my own use of digital photographs and also through Google Image Search. The morphing footage was created using a morphing program Fantamorph. It can output many different formats depending on how you want to present the morph. An example would be outputting an actual movie file for viewing the morph alone, an animated GIF to put on a website for documentation, or a mass of pictures made up of each individual frame of the movie.

Other Material that was used (acquired!)

Tools used and HOW?

Software used in the creation of the final image:

Adobe Photoshop to correct any photos that needed to be cropped, brightened, flipped, etc.
Abrosoft's Fantamorph shareware version to take two seperate images and create a movie file of the transition.
Adobe Premiere to stitch the individual morphs together, add music, and create a packaged movie demonstrating my work.

Software tools used to document my work:

Fantamorph's export option of Image Sequence to create the mass of frames demonstrating my understand that the movie is created by multiple images over time.
Adobe Photoshop's Automated Contact Sheet makeer to layout the frames to show the image progression in another format, and also to highlight mistakes or things that could have been done better.
Microsoft Paint! Everyone loves copying a print screen into paint. Gotta love it.

Code or scripting (include as an attachment OR link)

Definitely not.

What worked?

The morphing worked extremely well. Also stitching together the morphs themselves was relatively painless.

What was unexpected?

After I switched morphing programs from Morpheus (whose shareware ran out after only five morphs) to Fantamorph, I experienced "clipping" during a morph. Clipping is when the planes of an image are flipped and transcibed in such a way by the placement of the dots that a gap in pictures occurs.

What did NOT work?

Clipping in one of the morphs was left because I couldn't fix it.

How would you fix it?

Redoing the whole morph picking different pictures.

Thoughts for the future of this effort?

I were to do this again I would pick pictures that are almost completely different from each other. The morphs that were extremely similar were harder to morph, and often did not turn out as spectacular. An example is the wave. An example of an excellant morph would be the lizard.