Sunday, October 19, 2008

Lycanthropy and anthropomorphic

Lycanthropy is made up of two words: Lykos from Greek meaning 'wolf' and anthropy meaning 'human.' Lycanthropy is the more technical term for a werewolf. (狼人間 in Japanese).

Anthropomorphic means to treat a non-human like a human: many people think their dogs or cats are 'just like people.' Anthro means 'human' and 'morph' means 'form'.

Recently in movies we can see lots of computer generated (CG) morphing. Morphing, however, has been around for a long time, as you can see in this three-minute video about a movie about a werewolf called "Wolfman"