Love the action on the ears! There is a certain family resemblance… Very nicely done, great dynamic feel to this morph. It also helps clear up that age-old question: “Can red pandas touch their tongue to their nose?”

Morpheus Software has launched its brand spanking new e-publication, ImagiNation. Inside, you’ll find discounts and offers, news, software support and update information and special features designed to help you get the most from your Morpheus Software purchase. If you didn’t get the newsletter email, check it out here.

cherrytap is billed as the “Internet’s first online pub,” and they don’t mean publication. Seems like Morpheus has become a hit among a bunch of the early adoptors of cherrytap, for creating cutting-edge animated user images. It seems to help the community stay one step ahead of their obvious model, MySpace, as all things that come out of the Bay Area are slightly ahead of the curve in terms of style, innovation and sheer audacity. In any case, they’re open 24/7 (though still in stealth mode), and the party never stops. Morpheus at small size works well too – why have a static photo when you can self-display using a sophisticated animation created with Morpheus? We didn’t think of it, but we like it! Users always push the product to limits the developer-creators never dreamed of, and that’s a good thing. Tap into that!

Great work here with the precise layout of dots to get a very centered, symmetrical and dynamic morph. Revenge of the nerd dogs! We also like the subtle shades of gray in the two photos used, adding a further sophistication to the animation.

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!

We think that everyone has a rock star inside of them, just waiting break out of the obscurity of the day job. Sometimes all it requires is just the right pair of glasses, or a killer animation idea.

This dynamic mother daughter duo created a home-made “bluescreen” - an animation technique from way back - using a sheet to set up a neutral background shared by both shots. Way to go!

We like how this animation sets the beach on fire, and reveals the feline inside.

Some of you may remember John Woo’s 1997 thriller Face/Off with Nicolas Cage and John Travolta. The tagline was In order to catch him, he must become him. Well, here’s a little homage to that imperfect piece of cinema with perfect casting…

With this post, we begin a series of experimental animations on celebrities, trying to draw out some of the more dynamic elements made possible by Morpheus. If you have ideas for celebrity combos you’d like to see represented here, let us know by by leaving a comment below or contribute your own!

Morpheus Photo Animation Suite is currently featured at Windows Marketplace, right in the sweet spot on the home page. Happy Holidays to all you animaniacs – morphers, mixers and warpers alike. Life is Suite!

Chris Pirillo, friend of Morpheus and well-known blogger of lockergnome fame (a CNET top-100 blog), clued us in to this recent post where he muses on marriage and offspring. Chris writes: Instead of waxing pathetic about the whole “marriage is the blending of two lives” story, I thought I’d simply illustrate it for you in animated form. We in turn took a screen-grab of a frame somewhere in the middle – to give you the mix of the morph, so to speak…

Thanks to Morpheus user mr-r34 for this one - great attention to detail here. We like the morphs of the coifs almost as much as that of the nicely-transitioning facial expressions. Definitely a keeper.

This is one of those charmingly surreal uses of a classic b/w portrait with a new color one, and across generations. Really nicely done, in our opinion. We’re guessing from the file names that this is a mother-daughter combination. Thanks to wl_missnono for sending it in.

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….

Either he’s brave or his girlfriend sent it in, but thanks to Morpheus user musicmaniac313 (don’t you love how we refer to people by numbers nowadays; what would Orwell say?) for this nice gender-bending celebrity morph. Smooth!

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

Got this time lapse (or generation-leaping, depending) treasure in from anlongbeach.

Morpheus user spencer_murphy submitted this charming animation called "Nick & I."

Thanks to Morpheus aficionado annandrige for this animation of “Abot’s baby at 5 wks 3 days” morphing into young Cameron by the lake. A couple of young pups with a family resemblance? We think so…

Morpheus Photo Morpher got a nice writeup in the most recent edition of trade magazine Digital Photographer. To see the review, just click on the cover image below.

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…

A girl with a beautific smile turning into a cuddly kitten is a true recipe for a feel-good morph. What makes this one special is the close attention paid to the position of the eyes, nose and mouth in the two original photos. Nice one from Morpheus user mikebell!

He’s got the sideburns, the French beret, the buttoned up shirt AND the drawing skills. We’re just wondering if those are books or DVDs. Whatever they are, they dissolve away in the simpler world of the drawn character. We also like how the lines on the shirt collar morph perfectly into the drawing. Nice work.

Helene sent this one. Fantastic grasp of timing and setup - the facial features are smoothly transitioned and the pace is nice. Care put into choosing the right photos and then plotting the transform points can really make a so-so animation into something remarkable. Way to go, Helene!

Animania! goes international with this animation that came in titled “Nous Deux.” It’s like a mini foreign movie – but no need for subtitles so no strain on your eyes!

That’s what Computer Shopper had to say about Morpheus Photo Animation Suite.

“We don’t usually have to stop reviewing a product for a laughter break, but Morpheus Photo Animation Suite really adds something to digital-image editing: fun. This $59.95 suite lets you transform one photo into another, then export the result as an animation, a movie, or a still image.”

For the full article, click here.

Smith Micro’s Consumer Group Launches Morpheus Photo Animation Suite Into Retail Market.

Company Extends Its Consumer Product Line by Entering Into Exclusive Publishing Deal With Morpheus Software

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Smith Micro Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMSI - News) today announced it has signed an exclusive publishing agreement with Morpheus Software, LLC., a leading publisher of digital photo animation software. The company’s pioneering product, known as Morpheus Photo Animation Suite™, contains three easy-to-use, creative photo animation products — Morpher, Warper and Mixer. These products enable users to morph, distort, exaggerate, or blend portions of multiple images into a single image. More…

Also check out Smith Micro’s clean presentation of Morpheus Photo Animation Suite in the graphics section of their online software store.