The Grimm Adventures of Billy and Mandy (Werewolf Transformation)

Here's an excellent werewolf transformation from the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. In "Tween Wolf" Billy friend Irvin goes through a beautifully detailed transformation--clothes-bursting, muscle and muzzle growth, and even cries "Oh no, it's PUBERTY!!" (I've heard that the artist who storyboarded it was a werewolf fan--if only there were more like him...)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I'd like to thank everyone who's been reading the blog--during the past year I've been posting more and more often and hope to increase my rate. As you can see, I've already added two entries to the site today and hopefully will add a couple more tomorrow. In the meantime, here's a cute and funny X-Mas gift--a kid re-enacting the transformation scene from An American Werewolf in London.

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! (Muscle Growth/Monster Transformation)

(Edit: since, the original youtube links no longer work, I've replaced them with links to Dragoniade's site, which has been recently updated.)

A recent episode of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, called Gammaworld, had several of the heroes getting exposed to fields of gamma radiation and turning into hulk-style monsters. The first TF is brief and involves several SHIELD operatives.
The second transformation is even briefer--a quick monsters-reverting-to-human scene.
Next, most of the Avengers hulk out!
Slightly disappointing in its use of silhouettes, not to mention tricks like only showing Captain America's back burst through his uniform, and bypassing his other body parts. Oh well!

Evil Con Carne (Gorilla Transformation)

In this episode of Evil Con Carne, General Skarr gets hit with a ray and devolves into a big old gorilla. The TF features some nice clothes-bursting and grunting. It begins at the 3:24 mark:


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Vampire Diaries (Werewolf Transformation)

So, at long last and after much delay, Tyler finally transformed into a werewolf. An edited video of the transformation scenes is below. As for the quality of the transformation...well, it started promisingly. The acting was perfect--Michael Trevino conveyed the pain of the change most convincingly (and in human form he's very easy on the eyes)--and the computer-rendered chest-squeezing and foot-into-paw morphs were excellent. But then the character crawls into the shadows and the TF peters out in shadows or off-screen. It was a bad sign when Trevino reported having spent only a couple of hours getting prosthetics (and damn if I could see them, everything was so dark). Though the producers trumpeted this transformation to the skies, their budget obviously didn't stretch toward more CGI or Being Human-style animatronics (almost a lost art).

Part of the problem is that the character is supposed to transform into just an ordinary wolf, not a man-wolf beast or a monster wolf. With a man-wolf TF, you can just show the actor hulking out and then have a shot of his face contorting into a muzzle, since the creature is anthropomorphic. But a full wolf is so different in shape from a human that you need more time, ingenuity, and special effects if you want to show the transformation onscreen. And most TV shows don't have that sort of budget (or imagination) so they cheat on showing the process and use shadows, poofs, cutaways, or blink-and-miss-it effects. That's partly why the transformations in True Blood, Twilight, Blood and Chocolate, and The Gates were all huge disappointments and crushingly unimaginative. What Vampire Diaries did was slightly better but still too little, and I doubt Tyler's future wolf-outs will be much better. Ah well--let's hope for better things from the remake of Being Human (plus the third season of the original) and Teen Wolf.