[Anahki]

I don't want to ruin your cheerful party, but I've read that you have the idea of making it CGI. So, you give up before even starting? I mean, I thought that you were all here to think about how to create the ultimate female werewolf transformation. For me, if you do CGI style, you will go one step behind from any live-action video.
My reasoning is that yes, you can, with much effort, create something better than Gryf already did some time ago. Well, that would be wonderful and so on, but it is still far from what was intended here, or am I wrong?
Sorry for not being so constructive about this, but I can give you an idea about how to reduce costs and avoid the use of animatronics (so you will save some money on the process): you could get two prosthetics for two different transformation stages, and then use the CGI to morph the "earlier" one into the "later" one.
So for these effects you should need someone with experience with prosthetics, and someone who could handle a decent morphing software... well, in the second case you don't even need an expert, I assume.
And to finalize, as others before me have stated, the best idea is to support an artist who were a member of this forum, so you could minimize the "artistic" differences that could arise during the process, and to avoid working with someone who is not "into this".
Good luck with the project...