Rusty the Guitar Dude is one of a host of MySpacers who have embraced Morpheus as a means to spice up their online image. Check out Rusty’s macabre page here.

It dawns on us that the age of the still image as representation of self online is transitioning into the age of the morph. Becoming replaces being. In these miniature movies such as Rusty’s there are mini-narratives - stories of death and decay here, but elsewhere of growth and transformation. Let your imagination run wild, as they say. But don’t let it stop there; using Morpheus, you can express the imagination run wild and publish to your favorite community site. Stay tuned for news on this front…

Here’s another sophisticated multi-image morph found on YouTube, this one featuring the progressive cosmetic transformations of songwriter, dancer, pop star, media sensation and internal exile (as the Soviet poets used to say) Michael Jackson, the one and only. This video has received 200,000+ views since being posted slightly over a month ago. Suffice to say that serial plastic surgery is a type of real-body morphing, echoed here in video format. Despite the gruesomeness of the ending image, we do find the final message well worth pondering: “If this is what’s happening outside, what’s going on inside?” You can view it here on YouTube. More and more complex morphs of this type are showing up on YouTube; the mophing momentum is gathering, you could say. Keep us informed about ones you spot or the ones you post on YouTube that we can feature on animaniablog.com.

Thanks Tim for this smooth rendering of alien-ation. Scully & Mulder would be proud.

Thanks to Morpheus user queenb****3769 (are there that many?) for sending this one in. Interestingly enough, there is actually some gothic architecture here – in the romantic moonlit backdrop, complete with tiny bats (of course) – before she dons her high heels and beams down to the red underworld hotel.

Like a doll come to life in a Stephen King story, or an instantaneous snapshot across the room at the merry prankster’s midnight party, you see her eyes move toward you as she perceives your gaze and the color shift while all else remains the same. Killer concept and execution on this strobe effect morph. We like the butterflies and the sig too.

Odd how the geometry of a room can feel suddenly yanked out from under you, like a proverbial carpet or a tablecloth at a fine dinner. What is the relation of these two women? Guess what, we have no idea either. It’s like “You know, I was just minding my own business, waiting for Bela Lugosi to come by, when suddenly it all changed and I was blond and on the phone — plus the house had changed.” We think David Lynch might enjoy this one; unfortunately that might also mean that not everyone will. Well, we have morphs and animations for all tastes. Sorry for the hiatus, but we’re BAAAACCKKK!

Well, we’ve had aliens, tigers and anime angels; sooner or later we were bound to enter the mythic territory of dragon lore. Thanks to Morpheus user j.reynolds, we have. Don’t mess with this guy, he looks like a tough customer, and there’s more than meets the eye. Tough getting out of the phone booth though….

Wazzup Talea, thanks for this classic photo montage morph with a distinctly alien twist. The truth is (still) out there!

Well, Halloween may be over except for a smashing pumpkin or two, and Dia de los Muertos just rounding midnight, but we think this one could pass fine for any ghoulish holiday. Thanks for the trick and treat, yellek0711 - that’s kelly backwards we’re guessing, and she’s either lucky, born under the sign of Cancer or works at 7/11 – or possibly all of the above…

We’re not sure who this Nik is, but he does a fine Belushi imitation and has wilder hair to boot. Nice slow and strange – animania indeed!

No, it’s not the less-than-thrilling band that Bob Weir formed after the demise of the Grateful Dead, alas, but rather a rat smoothly transitioning into a chihuahua, submitted by Morpheus user revilohm. Stay tuned, we have a bunch more user animations in the queue!

Let’s go back in time through the corrective lenses of a Morpheus girl, to visit the ancestral past. Intelligent design, indeed.