help - psychedelic morphing effect :)

[shockgiga]

hi guys:

actually i want to produce this following effect:
http://www.shockgiga.com/nikecommercial.swf

i would really appreciate it if anyone could help me understand how this is done or pass me on to a tutorial similar to it.

thanks in advance. i hope someone replies. lol

[noouch]

It's stop-motion animation. Every frame was photographed individually. I've made stop-motion anims before, it's a bitch to animate.

[shockgiga]

photographed? meaning not 3d? if so, do you happen to know a shape shifting technique instead? like from a sphere into a mobile phone?

thanks in advance and thanks for replying :)

[noouch]

I know Cinema 4D has a sphere modifier, I think in MAX it can be done with a space warp.

[Smack Monkey]

in max there is a modifier called spherify you could use that to morph a phone into a sphere or vice versa.

Or youu could use the morpher modifier. It's a little tricky especially if the objects to be morphed have a different number of verts/faces but it's achieveable.

Are you sure that Nike Ad isn't 3D?

[shockgiga]

i knew i had a feeling that nike ad was 3d. considering the times now. nobody would invest in painstaking processes if there's an easier and more advanced way of achieving it.

can you teach me how to use the morpher modifier or at least its basics?

thanks in advance and merry xmas.