Sylar Shape Shifter (NBC's Heroes)

Created in a couple of hours, this clip involves a morph-type effect wherein my face is progressively replaced with that of Zachary Quinto as NBC's Heroes character Sylar. Accomplished with Adobe After Effects CS3 and Adobe Photoshop CS3. The soundtrack is "A Tale Begins", by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman.

Special thanks to Frances Dubois.

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• villain
• morph
• morphing
• transform
• ability
• super
• hero
• powers
• cosmos
• darwin
• visual
• effects
• test
• after
• mesh
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[YouEroes]

awesome u should do a tutorial

[CosmosDarwin]

while I may eventually do a tutorial, I can tell you right now that it was a fairly straight forward morph. The trickiest part was probably filming myself with the same lighting and in the same pose as Zachary Quinto in the stock photo I used. After that, it was just a matter of using a Mesh Warp in After Effects to slowly morph my face into his.

[leafblowinSK8]

@CosmosDarwin Man this is crazy, its f*** proffesional, plz do a tutorial, i guess someone as familiar too AE would have this tut finished in like 2-5 mins :)

Plz have a go, just record your screen in HD, and if its fast paste we can just re run until we get it :)

Pl0x make some tuts cause this and some of your other work is soo amazing, i need to know how xD

[CosmosDarwin]

@leafblowinSK8 again, thank you. You're too kind. Here again, I used Mesh Warp, and essentially just faded one image into the other (by gradually decreasing the opacity). It worked surprisingly well, what took the longest, really, was posing for the video clip in the same way that Zach Quinto was posed for the photo.

[arifemre123x]

very good :d

[unikati101]

amazing work dude :)

[zhawmedia]

ahahahhahaha iwalito xDDD

[riki0097]

that was awesome :D good morphing :D

[2Fpedro2F]

wtf??? thats so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[23Ian1]

This is great

[23Ian1]

I know how to morph in After Effects you have to use the Reshape filter in the distort effect

[wrenthereaper]

haha thats great!! 5/5. nice effect. the mesh tool is something big i have yet to actually play around with in AE.

lol it helps though that you got the pose on camera nearly perfect.