<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Morphing is a special effect in motion pictures and animations that changes (or morphs) one image or shape into another through a seamless transition . Most often it is used to depict one person turning into another through technological means or as part of a fantasy or surreal sequence . Traditionally such a depiction would be achieved through cross-fading techniques on film . Since the early 1990s, this has been replaced by computer software to create more realistic transitions . </P> <P> Long before digital morphing several techniques were used for similar image transformations . Some are closer to a matched dissolve - a gradual change between two pictures without warping the shapes in the images - while others did change the shapes in between the start and end phases of the transformation . </P>

The effect in which one image transforms into another is known as