Morphing Between Objects

Support Animation and Rigging
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I have a human head OBJ and a chimp head OBJ. I made a human head in Zbrush, and from the human head, I pushed and pulled the exact same vertices into a chimp head. The human and chimp both have the same number of vertices. In Zbrush, I used “vertice layers” so I can easily morph back and forth between the human and chimp, and it’s very smooth.

However, I’m trying the shrinkwrap modifier in Blender to morph between human and chimp, and it’s looking bad. From Zbrush, I had exported separate OBJs from the 100% human head and the 100% chimp head. I then imported those OBJs into Blender in an attempt to morph between them using the shrinkwrap modifier.

Through shrinkwrap or another method, is there some way that Blender can recognize the exact vertices on the human that correspond to the exact vertices with the chimp and just morph between the two? Something very straightforward?

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If your meshes have same number of vertices - first select source mesh, then shift-select target mesh, in shapekey section of properties choose join as shape, new shapekey will be added you can drag it’s slider to 1 and shape should morph to your taget mesh shape. Also I suppose this method to work demands both meshes have same vertex order.

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Thanks! Exactly what I wanted.

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Just in case you ever want to morph between objects which don’t have exactly the same vertex count, I recommend this video…

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Belated thank you.

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Just saw this novel approach with “Metaball-ish” welds between objects using geo-node’s SDF, “signed distance field”.