Transformer plugin

[PiXeL_MoNKeY]

The morpher will morph from any object to another, as long as they have the same number of vertices. It is not just used for facial animation, it is used to transfer between shapes. I would make a copy of you fish, use the edit poly mesh brush tools to relax the fish and shape into the cell. Then you can easily morph between the 2. There use to be a commercial morph plugin that worked between objects of different topologies, but last I checked it was no longer being updated.

-Eric

[SmallPoly]

The morpher will morph from any object to another, as long as they have the same number of vertices. It is not just used for facial animation, it is used to transfer between shapes. I would make a copy of you fish, use the edit poly mesh brush tools to relax the fish and shape into the cell. Then you can easily morph between the 2. There use to be a commercial morph plugin that worked between objects of different topologies, but last I checked it was no longer being updated.

-Eric

It might also be noted that not only does it need to have the same number of verticies for a morph, but that for it to animate correctly, it should be built through copies of the same mesh.

One thing you might do is make a morph target of each rough shape, create highpoly versions, projection bake the high poly data into displacement or normal maps, then stick them in a blend material to animate when you go from one morph target or the other

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