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Originally Posted by spongebathe83
The eyes in the second pic was a bit too smudged. But overall very good.
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Actually I'm glad you brought that up. The face was a big pain in the ass for me because this is actually the first time I ever really paid attention to morphing facial expressions. The body, by comparison, is quite easy.
The second image in the process I used "Image Warp". I was trying to achieve an expression of dawning comprehension without going all out with the shock just yet. That was going to be my third pic's motif. I did the best I could, but Image Warping always causes some degree of smudge effect, no matter how careful you are. It took me several tries before I finally found a middle ground that didn't look like a three year old with a crayon drew her face, I'll tell you.
The third image looks so good because all I did was basically cut and paste work. The mouth was imported from another image entirely and superimposed over Matsumoto's original lips. After merging the objects, I used color transformation to paint her lips the same pink color as in the first two images, thus making it look like her mouth. The eyes I simply whited out with the "pencil" tool, then took a pair of shrunken Irises and placed them strategically so that they were staring down at her breasts in horror. Again I used cut and paste for this function, though amazingly those are still her original eyes. Just shrunk. The effect was better than I could have hoped.
The sweatdrop I drew out myself almost as an afterthought, but even that seemed to turn out alright in the end. In any case I agree with you that the first and third images have the best facials of the set. I'm sorry I couldn't do any better with the second. But I'll practice with this stuff in future manips.