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Morphing Movie

Story Board

Everyone in this world, I guess, will have a kind of eerie feeling when they are left alone in a room or a place. It is this knot that made Vinay and me to plot the storyboard for this movie.

Here is the plot. A guy sitting in a room, working on his assignment(probably Special Effects) feels as if someone is closely watching him.  He tries  to look around to make sure that no one is there in the room except him. But in our movie, we are making a monalisa poster hanging on the wall do the tricks for us.  The monalisa image turns into a weird ghost like image, does some silly actions and changes back to original when this guy looks at it.
 

Story Board


Actors

    Script                :    Raja and Vinay
        Hero                  :    Vinay
        Photography           :    Raja
        Stabilization         :    Vinay
        Morphing              :    Raja
        Special Effects       :    Vinay and Raja

Raw Images
 
 

Implementation

We shot a film sequence with Vinay sitting in front of a table in a room reading his notes.  Since we want to do the morph on a Monalisa picture which we didn't have, we thought of composting the morphing sequence over the shot movie. So we assumed as if Monalisa picture was hangin' over Vinay's head. We put in cross points at high frequency transitions on the wall, with a thought of stabilization in mind.  The shot sequence was a bit shaky. We stabilized the video using the cross points which we had already fixed on the wall for this purpose. After stablization,  the movie was stable.

Monalisa image was dissolved to get the source morph image and then morphing was done on the source image to get the destination image. Finally the destination image was again dissolved back to monalisa.

Since we shot the movie with camera a bit tilted,  we had problems in compositing the monalisa image. We had to do a lot of 3D transformations to get the image sink with the movie. We also used blur and crop operations to get the the correct image size and correct color and brightness relative to the movie sequence.
 
 
Track Points 

Morph Meshes

Flow Graph


 

We have two versions of the movie, the first one with little artifacts seen around the image and the second one with no aritifacts.

Here we go..... to watch the final movie.

 1AVI format (with artifacts) ( 28 MB)

 2.  AVI format  (with no artifacts) (28 MB)
    MPEG - compressed format (with no artifacts) (2 MB)
 

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