Thanks to a speedy response from Elaine, Dameg, and Nguyen to our post yesterday, we now have a copy of the morphing animation from Animorphs #1’s lenticular cover!
Elaine was kind enough to give me a GIF of the animation (posted below), while Dameg and Nguyen gave me the original SWF (which I’ll be placing in the video/book database later). I also went ahead and stripped the animation file of its frames, so that we can see the entire morphing process from start to finish (in the form of the older books). Here it is:
(Click here to see the animation in action!)
As you can see, this Jake model is a different Jake from the first lenticular cover that was released. We have no idea why they did this, but there is a definite difference of age between the two models, and the lizard seems to have been changed as well.
That’s it for now! Thanks again to Elaine, Dameg, and Nguyen for sending those files in! We’ll keep you posted on any more updates and changes.
I never thought the cover pictures did the morphing justice. In the morph scenes the chane is described as disgusting, but even with the morphs they say are the ugliest, the covers just looked weird. It Is also said multiple times that a morphs is NOT a smooth transition, but on the cover every part of the body changed at the same rate, making it look almost normal.
Comment by Briannon — April 23, 2011 @ 6:05 pm
Can you do book 2’s?
Comment by spencer — May 6, 2011 @ 7:32 pm
@Spencer: Unfortunately, Scholastic has not yet released the animation GIF for Animorphs #2. It’s the only way I could make another frame by frame comparison, because it’s very hard to scan these lenticular covers properly to do so myself.
Comment by Issam — May 7, 2011 @ 9:49 am
Oh, well, when books 2,3,4,5, and 6 come out, will you later do animations here on them?
I think there is a possibility that ALL the books will be re-released with lenticular covers!
Comment by spencer1 — July 8, 2011 @ 11:58 pm