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- An American Werewolf In London. I was already a John Landis fan prior to discovering AWIL mainly because at the time I had just seen Animal House and fallen in love with it (and still am) and then I discovered this movie with the amazing transformation scene and makeup effects...it's no wonder the Best Makeup category was invented, because this movie's transformation is unrivalled and to this day still impresses me, I am influenced a lot by Landis when it comes to my work but when it comes to my horror and monster stuff I have the same kind of tongue-in-cheek style and dark humor that his movies tend to have. I even have paid homage to the transformation scene on more than one occassion.
- Kanada. Ah yes, everyone knows this guy...this guy who created a name for himself with his Digimon and Pokemon transformations including some of my personal favorites like Matt turning into a Weregarurumon, Davis and Veemon literally trading roles, Ash transforming into a Pikachu (which coincidentally happened in the anime), and tons more. I got into Pokemon transformations especially anthro-ized ones because of this and I got into anthro Pokes because of the PCA artworks that depict anthro Pokemon as students and/or teachers of a school (I think it's a cool concept and I love Pokemon who act and think and talk like people), and now I am even more of a fan of his work.
- Wallace and Gromit in Curse Of The Wererabbit.
- Swatcher. Another old classic, seriously...this guy has a love of Grinches that is almost akin to my own, if you know me you'll know I am obsessed with Jim Carrey's Grinch to the point that I have a cosplay kit I made just in case I get the chance to dress as the character, the design of that particular version of the Grinch...that is one of my favorite creature designs, I freaking love everything about Carrey as the Grinch (I used to be scared of him but now i'm very obsessed with him and the movie in general, I have a grinch as my main character's fursona) and let's just i'm glad there's someone out there who appreciates the green meanster as much as I do.
- Numerous interactive stories.
- Teen Wolf (1985). I have a huge level of admiration for transformations that are into creatures that are partially half-non-human, I have an attraction to half-non-human female characters and I once went through a phase where I wanted to be numerous types of creatures including a plant-monster/swamp thing, a Grinch, a vampire, a werewolf, a hobbit...and now I get to live out that in RPs and stories. I just seem to have an admiration for transformations where they are still recognizably human but have things like longer nails that could be akin to claws, fangs/sharp teeth in general (see also my love of vampires and similar creatures like the Hessian), glowing eyes (I always use this is stories and bios and RPs with my monster transformations or when a creature/supernatural character is using their powers), and unusually pointed ears (see also creatures with naturally pointed ears like LOTR's hobbits and elves, and when Robin Williams grows his pointed ears back as Peter Banning/Peter Pan in Hook, another reason of me to be jealous of Robin next to playing a shapeshifting Genie who can become anyone and anything and playing an alien descended from birds with cool superpowers). I even had a dream that pretty much was like the tf scene in this movie and it was into a monster version of Russell Brand (this happened back in 2014 when Russell was everywhere and was my sort of arch nemesis).
- Numerous websites about werecreatures/shapeshifters in lore. I have a ton of books that are about creatures, supernatural ones to be exact including books on vamps, werecreatures and ghosts. So there were a ton of websites that got me hooked on the subject of transformations and supernatural beings including ones that told you all of the different ways to become a werecreature in folklore (including some I didn't know of like being born on the 12 nights of Christmas according to German lore) and then there was this documentary on History Channel. Oh, did I mention there was a time History Channel wasn't being a conspiray theorist's wet dream? Well...there was a time they aired documentaries about things like the history of Halloween and one documentary I remember discovering was one that talked about the different myths from all over the world including a were-deer/deer-woman myth (this is a real documentary by the way, I just cannot remember the title).
- Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde (1995). I used to not like tg as a concept because I thought most if not all tg tales went like this...a poor guy loses his masculine traits and sometimes his IQ, becomes all sexed-up, develops breasts and a new utensil between his legs, and he becomes obsessed with wanting to make out with every man he or she meets. I was wrong, there are a lot of good...no, not good...fantastic tg works on here and on numerous sites that served as a wake up call to me. At first I only did tg sparingly but now I seem to do both male to female or female to male on an almost regular basis, I have this movie and Critters 2 to thank for it too. I mean that has to be one of the sexiest sequences i've ever seen.
- The Fly (1986). This movie definitely inspired me to add a bit of depth and compexity to my transformation scenarios and RPs and stories, mainly because i'm more of the 'gradual change' type and not 'transform me right away' type (types like that just really try my patience...'Can you transform me now?' 'No I cannot. You can't just skip ahead like that, you have to be built up for it, you have to be developed as a character...what does your character need, what is he or she like, what influences their decision to transform? How do they feel? How do they feel about it?') and this movie does a transformation really well and uses a lot of Body Horror which I definitely think works (there are some cases where Body Horror is a bit tooooo much like for example Human Centipede or Slither or other torture sub-genre of horror, but Cronenberg does it in a way that while grotesque, is very thought-provoking).
- Goosebumps. Oooh boy, the Goosebumps books. A mask that if you wear it will not only make look like a monster but will actually make you into one? Numerous different stories about werecreatures including one that is similar to the Native American myth of Skinwalkers? Shapeshifting aliens who can look like normal people and also look like pumpkin-headed monsters with supernatural powers (I know the alien designs in the episode are a bit silly and Henson-esque, but still..a town full of adult aliens who can change their forms/appearances), and tons of others. The first Goosebump book I remember having an attachment to was the first Monster Blood. I consider it to be a classic along with the sequel, the third book was somewhat disappointing to me since the main character merely just grows larger as opposed to turning into a monster (which would have worked). The Girl Who Cried Monster has a really good villain, and an amazing twist with the parents being monsters themselves. And then there's the Give Yourself Goosebumps books, let's see...ranging from growing/shrinking up or down to different sizes, turning into food or even flowers, and even...joining a horror club where you get turned into a werewolf or a bat (or bat-creature)...oooh yes. Especially the latter, I have a soft spot for bat-monster type transformations or bat-monster type creatures (e.g Manbat, Gary Oldman's Dracula in his bat form, Jenny from Bloody Roar), and it's one of the animal/creature transformations I love best next to hooved animal tfs (I have a huge soft spot for bovine or pig transformations, especially the latter if you have seen my favorites, all female pig transformations. I don't see why I should consider that to be disgusting just because one stupid stuck-up little asshole pretty much thinks I should, they're harmless, they're not harming anyone), fish-creature tfs (seriously some of my dreams have fish-monster transformations including some inspired by Biker Mice From Mars), feline transformations in particular if the result is a humanoid with some half feline-traits, etc. And a transformation of someone into a bat is right up my alley. Were these supposed to scare us into not liking them because it had the opposite effect on me.
- Blackbluedawg. My monster bestie...I wouldn't be where I am without him.
- The mirror scene from Casper. I have developed a fondness for possession scenes, which is a recurring element in my dreams and stories, basically it's all because of this movie and a Michael Jackson short film titled 'Ghosts' and the Scooby Doo movie, this type of thing has always come across as fascinating. This scene was my first exposure to this, basically the ghostly trio using their powers to possess Dr Harvey and he turns into Clint Eastwood, Rodney Dangerfield, Mel Gibson and The Cryptkeeper. Basically a funny version of the infamous hallucination scene from Poultergeist.
- Big Wolf On Campus. One of my favorite television shows EVER...it's underrated and without it, I wouldn't be into werecreatures...I love that Tommy is a good werewolf who fights villains and I love the dynamic between him and Merton. This made werecreatures awesome, and it's thanks to this show and Buffy that I got very much into monsters in general.
- Numerous sites about transformation. I am not going to say the name of this particular site's owner out of respect but I am going to describe what his site was like, it was huge...had almost every single transformation scene from a movie (whether it be animated or live-action), comic, tv show or video game and even from magazine covers and ads and he was a huge influence on me. I got into shows like Buffy and Big Wolf because of the images that I had discovered on that site, and I know it sounds like i'm fanboying but I can't help it, he was just that good. I mean the art and photomorphs definitely inspired me to want to try some myself.
- Animorphs. Especially the descriptions of the changes and the covers. The covers made me want to do my own morphs which I did for a while but none of my morphs were as good, I mostly did all character transformation morphs and no...I don't have them all on here since most of them were on my old account (Drmusic2-1/Drmusic2) and that account got hacked/deleted, but still I tried my hand at morphs using Fantamorph and I used to use Photoshop until it stopped worked and then I switched to GIMP. I look at these covers and I think...'that's one fine/impressive look morphing sequence...WHY DON'T ANY OF MINE LOOK LIKE THAT!'.
- Darkbullfrog.
- Justparodiezman/DocChester.
- Nibblahfrog. I got into monster-making because of this particular user.
- Lance/Weremoose. The man got me into photomanips and character tfs..and even into Star Wars character transformations, now that's what I call a major influence. Heck, one of my stories (the one about the icon, it's a Walken tf story) was inspired by one he has on his website. Definitely a major influence on me.
- Numerous music videos. Morphing effects have been used in movies, tv shows and even music videos since the late 80's and there are a lot of famous examples I can use like for example the Terminator movies, numerous Star Trek shows, Forest Ranger (you know that movie where Chuck Norris turns into a bear?), Manimal (another tv show that was a major influence on me), and of course music videos like the infamous Fatboy Slim video 'Right Here Right Now' and Michael Jackson's Black Or White. While I do love human to creature/human to half-creature transformations, I have always found the idea of being another human fascinating and that's why I have things like were-celebrities and stories where someone becomes another person, because it's fascinating and I like to explore that a lot, I have dreams that have transformations like that and I remember all of them, the idea of becoming another person just fascinates me. And let's face it, if you know me...i'd probably choose to be Christopher Walken, David Bowie, Corey Feldman or Mick Jagger or Dan Aykroyd..(yeah they always joked about me identifying as a werejohncandy, not true...I identify as an Aykroyd-kin and everyone on here knows that, I choose Aykrod since he is my spirit animal). Morphs in general have always appealed to me and i've always wanted to try my hand out at doing some myself.
- Michael Jackson's Thriller. Ah yes, I was scared of this video at first but became fascinated with it later on.
- The Sugar Puffs commercials. Being from England originally, HM was a massive part of it. Granted I was scared of him at first but eventually I grew to love the guy.
- Short stories. I cannot pinpoint the exact title of this short story but it was one about a teenager who talked too much on his/her cellphone, it was an early 2000's children's book and part of an anthology...basically the twist was that he or she got a transformation into sort of a living cellphone or something, I am pretty sure the character's head became cellphone shaped but he/she still had features like a nose/mouth. Also there was a book called Weremom about some kid's mother turning into a monster. And also..Winni Allfours (a girl wants to have a horse/pony, which is every girls dream but her parents say no so she goes for the next best thing, eating what equines eat, vegetables...she is told by her mother if she eats vegetables she will become a horse and that's what happens).
- The Carlos Castaneda books.
https://www.deviantart.com/monsterm.....0%3A1614579715
- Kanada. Ah yes, everyone knows this guy...this guy who created a name for himself with his Digimon and Pokemon transformations including some of my personal favorites like Matt turning into a Weregarurumon, Davis and Veemon literally trading roles, Ash transforming into a Pikachu (which coincidentally happened in the anime), and tons more. I got into Pokemon transformations especially anthro-ized ones because of this and I got into anthro Pokes because of the PCA artworks that depict anthro Pokemon as students and/or teachers of a school (I think it's a cool concept and I love Pokemon who act and think and talk like people), and now I am even more of a fan of his work.
- Wallace and Gromit in Curse Of The Wererabbit.
- Swatcher. Another old classic, seriously...this guy has a love of Grinches that is almost akin to my own, if you know me you'll know I am obsessed with Jim Carrey's Grinch to the point that I have a cosplay kit I made just in case I get the chance to dress as the character, the design of that particular version of the Grinch...that is one of my favorite creature designs, I freaking love everything about Carrey as the Grinch (I used to be scared of him but now i'm very obsessed with him and the movie in general, I have a grinch as my main character's fursona) and let's just i'm glad there's someone out there who appreciates the green meanster as much as I do.
- Numerous interactive stories.
- Teen Wolf (1985). I have a huge level of admiration for transformations that are into creatures that are partially half-non-human, I have an attraction to half-non-human female characters and I once went through a phase where I wanted to be numerous types of creatures including a plant-monster/swamp thing, a Grinch, a vampire, a werewolf, a hobbit...and now I get to live out that in RPs and stories. I just seem to have an admiration for transformations where they are still recognizably human but have things like longer nails that could be akin to claws, fangs/sharp teeth in general (see also my love of vampires and similar creatures like the Hessian), glowing eyes (I always use this is stories and bios and RPs with my monster transformations or when a creature/supernatural character is using their powers), and unusually pointed ears (see also creatures with naturally pointed ears like LOTR's hobbits and elves, and when Robin Williams grows his pointed ears back as Peter Banning/Peter Pan in Hook, another reason of me to be jealous of Robin next to playing a shapeshifting Genie who can become anyone and anything and playing an alien descended from birds with cool superpowers). I even had a dream that pretty much was like the tf scene in this movie and it was into a monster version of Russell Brand (this happened back in 2014 when Russell was everywhere and was my sort of arch nemesis).
- Numerous websites about werecreatures/shapeshifters in lore. I have a ton of books that are about creatures, supernatural ones to be exact including books on vamps, werecreatures and ghosts. So there were a ton of websites that got me hooked on the subject of transformations and supernatural beings including ones that told you all of the different ways to become a werecreature in folklore (including some I didn't know of like being born on the 12 nights of Christmas according to German lore) and then there was this documentary on History Channel. Oh, did I mention there was a time History Channel wasn't being a conspiray theorist's wet dream? Well...there was a time they aired documentaries about things like the history of Halloween and one documentary I remember discovering was one that talked about the different myths from all over the world including a were-deer/deer-woman myth (this is a real documentary by the way, I just cannot remember the title).
- Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde (1995). I used to not like tg as a concept because I thought most if not all tg tales went like this...a poor guy loses his masculine traits and sometimes his IQ, becomes all sexed-up, develops breasts and a new utensil between his legs, and he becomes obsessed with wanting to make out with every man he or she meets. I was wrong, there are a lot of good...no, not good...fantastic tg works on here and on numerous sites that served as a wake up call to me. At first I only did tg sparingly but now I seem to do both male to female or female to male on an almost regular basis, I have this movie and Critters 2 to thank for it too. I mean that has to be one of the sexiest sequences i've ever seen.
- The Fly (1986). This movie definitely inspired me to add a bit of depth and compexity to my transformation scenarios and RPs and stories, mainly because i'm more of the 'gradual change' type and not 'transform me right away' type (types like that just really try my patience...'Can you transform me now?' 'No I cannot. You can't just skip ahead like that, you have to be built up for it, you have to be developed as a character...what does your character need, what is he or she like, what influences their decision to transform? How do they feel? How do they feel about it?') and this movie does a transformation really well and uses a lot of Body Horror which I definitely think works (there are some cases where Body Horror is a bit tooooo much like for example Human Centipede or Slither or other torture sub-genre of horror, but Cronenberg does it in a way that while grotesque, is very thought-provoking).
- Goosebumps. Oooh boy, the Goosebumps books. A mask that if you wear it will not only make look like a monster but will actually make you into one? Numerous different stories about werecreatures including one that is similar to the Native American myth of Skinwalkers? Shapeshifting aliens who can look like normal people and also look like pumpkin-headed monsters with supernatural powers (I know the alien designs in the episode are a bit silly and Henson-esque, but still..a town full of adult aliens who can change their forms/appearances), and tons of others. The first Goosebump book I remember having an attachment to was the first Monster Blood. I consider it to be a classic along with the sequel, the third book was somewhat disappointing to me since the main character merely just grows larger as opposed to turning into a monster (which would have worked). The Girl Who Cried Monster has a really good villain, and an amazing twist with the parents being monsters themselves. And then there's the Give Yourself Goosebumps books, let's see...ranging from growing/shrinking up or down to different sizes, turning into food or even flowers, and even...joining a horror club where you get turned into a werewolf or a bat (or bat-creature)...oooh yes. Especially the latter, I have a soft spot for bat-monster type transformations or bat-monster type creatures (e.g Manbat, Gary Oldman's Dracula in his bat form, Jenny from Bloody Roar), and it's one of the animal/creature transformations I love best next to hooved animal tfs (I have a huge soft spot for bovine or pig transformations, especially the latter if you have seen my favorites, all female pig transformations. I don't see why I should consider that to be disgusting just because one stupid stuck-up little asshole pretty much thinks I should, they're harmless, they're not harming anyone), fish-creature tfs (seriously some of my dreams have fish-monster transformations including some inspired by Biker Mice From Mars), feline transformations in particular if the result is a humanoid with some half feline-traits, etc. And a transformation of someone into a bat is right up my alley. Were these supposed to scare us into not liking them because it had the opposite effect on me.
- Blackbluedawg. My monster bestie...I wouldn't be where I am without him.
- The mirror scene from Casper. I have developed a fondness for possession scenes, which is a recurring element in my dreams and stories, basically it's all because of this movie and a Michael Jackson short film titled 'Ghosts' and the Scooby Doo movie, this type of thing has always come across as fascinating. This scene was my first exposure to this, basically the ghostly trio using their powers to possess Dr Harvey and he turns into Clint Eastwood, Rodney Dangerfield, Mel Gibson and The Cryptkeeper. Basically a funny version of the infamous hallucination scene from Poultergeist.
- Big Wolf On Campus. One of my favorite television shows EVER...it's underrated and without it, I wouldn't be into werecreatures...I love that Tommy is a good werewolf who fights villains and I love the dynamic between him and Merton. This made werecreatures awesome, and it's thanks to this show and Buffy that I got very much into monsters in general.
- Numerous sites about transformation. I am not going to say the name of this particular site's owner out of respect but I am going to describe what his site was like, it was huge...had almost every single transformation scene from a movie (whether it be animated or live-action), comic, tv show or video game and even from magazine covers and ads and he was a huge influence on me. I got into shows like Buffy and Big Wolf because of the images that I had discovered on that site, and I know it sounds like i'm fanboying but I can't help it, he was just that good. I mean the art and photomorphs definitely inspired me to want to try some myself.
- Animorphs. Especially the descriptions of the changes and the covers. The covers made me want to do my own morphs which I did for a while but none of my morphs were as good, I mostly did all character transformation morphs and no...I don't have them all on here since most of them were on my old account (Drmusic2-1/Drmusic2) and that account got hacked/deleted, but still I tried my hand at morphs using Fantamorph and I used to use Photoshop until it stopped worked and then I switched to GIMP. I look at these covers and I think...'that's one fine/impressive look morphing sequence...WHY DON'T ANY OF MINE LOOK LIKE THAT!'.
- Darkbullfrog.
- Justparodiezman/DocChester.
- Nibblahfrog. I got into monster-making because of this particular user.
- Lance/Weremoose. The man got me into photomanips and character tfs..and even into Star Wars character transformations, now that's what I call a major influence. Heck, one of my stories (the one about the icon, it's a Walken tf story) was inspired by one he has on his website. Definitely a major influence on me.
- Numerous music videos. Morphing effects have been used in movies, tv shows and even music videos since the late 80's and there are a lot of famous examples I can use like for example the Terminator movies, numerous Star Trek shows, Forest Ranger (you know that movie where Chuck Norris turns into a bear?), Manimal (another tv show that was a major influence on me), and of course music videos like the infamous Fatboy Slim video 'Right Here Right Now' and Michael Jackson's Black Or White. While I do love human to creature/human to half-creature transformations, I have always found the idea of being another human fascinating and that's why I have things like were-celebrities and stories where someone becomes another person, because it's fascinating and I like to explore that a lot, I have dreams that have transformations like that and I remember all of them, the idea of becoming another person just fascinates me. And let's face it, if you know me...i'd probably choose to be Christopher Walken, David Bowie, Corey Feldman or Mick Jagger or Dan Aykroyd..(yeah they always joked about me identifying as a werejohncandy, not true...I identify as an Aykroyd-kin and everyone on here knows that, I choose Aykrod since he is my spirit animal). Morphs in general have always appealed to me and i've always wanted to try my hand out at doing some myself.
- Michael Jackson's Thriller. Ah yes, I was scared of this video at first but became fascinated with it later on.
- The Sugar Puffs commercials. Being from England originally, HM was a massive part of it. Granted I was scared of him at first but eventually I grew to love the guy.
- Short stories. I cannot pinpoint the exact title of this short story but it was one about a teenager who talked too much on his/her cellphone, it was an early 2000's children's book and part of an anthology...basically the twist was that he or she got a transformation into sort of a living cellphone or something, I am pretty sure the character's head became cellphone shaped but he/she still had features like a nose/mouth. Also there was a book called Weremom about some kid's mother turning into a monster. And also..Winni Allfours (a girl wants to have a horse/pony, which is every girls dream but her parents say no so she goes for the next best thing, eating what equines eat, vegetables...she is told by her mother if she eats vegetables she will become a horse and that's what happens).
- The Carlos Castaneda books.
https://www.deviantart.com/monsterm.....0%3A1614579715
