Face Morphing

Objective

Students will work with a partner but each create their own "Face Morph" clip using the Internet, Adobe Photoshop and Jing

Steps

• 1. Create a folder on your network drive called: FaceMorph

  2. Find a partner and take a few quality facial portraits of each other. Download the pictures of you into your FaceMorph folder.

  3. Use Google Images to find a famous celebrity's photo that looks similar to you. Save this image file into your FaceMorph folder.

  4. Open Adobe Photoshop to crop the images to approximately the same size. Try to make the faces fill approximately the same amount of each image. Save the files.

  5. Visit https://3dthis.com/morph.htm and upload your image as the "Start Image" and the celebrity's photo as the "End Image". reposition and scale the images as necessary then click on the "Done" button.

  6. Add dots to your image in key locations and relocate them associated dots on the celebrity image. The more dots the better.

  7. Click on the "Play" button to see the results.

  8. When you are finished, click on the "Publish" button. Create an account with your ugcloud email address.

  9. Follow the on-screen instruction and the advanced editing feature to improve the final appearance.

  10. Find and follow the instructions to download a gif of your animation.

  11. Submit a link to the end product so others can see it.

  12. Submit the animation to the location provided by the teacher.

Duration

• • Creation and Export: 2 periods

To Be Submitted

• • Link to Face Morph

  • GIF of the morphing

Evaluation

• • Formative

Success Criteria

• • I can record an appropriate starting image of myself.

  • I can correctly use Adobe Photoshop to crop and possibly edit/improve my source image.

  • I can correctly explore and use the website to upload and position the two images.

  • I can add enough reference points (dots) to ensure a smooth transition from the source to the end image.

  • I can create an account to save my progress with this application

  • I can use the website to export my GIF animation.

A Sample with Leonardo Dicaprio

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