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Though the 1986 movie The Golden Child implemented very crude morphing effects from animal to human and back, the first movie to employ detailed morphing was Willow, in 1988.

A similar process was used a year later in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade to create Walter Donovan's gruesome demise.

Both effects were created by Industrial Light & Magic using grid warping techniques developed by Tom Brigham and Doug Smythe ( AMPAS ).