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Very cool Steve

uh.... what if you wanted to keep the left half?

who needs drugs?
looks good!

for neon use a material with a high emissive value...
Lower the current lighting a tad.
Add lighting inside the object..... If it is tubes maybe use spot lights at an angle. They are pretty harsh though... local lights tend to be better.

Lighting can use some improvement. and don't care for that cieling tile. Looks artifical to me somehow... maybe too much specular or too much bump..... maybe both. Most cielings and walls don't have any real specular or shine.

At least one light should serve as "ray bounce" off the floor and/or walls. a value betweem white and gray is common . but using the color of the object will work also.

Oh, and for the ray bounce. don't include shadows.

Thanks.
Was going to make a video of it.... but that darn goblet made it take entirely too long. Maybe tomorrow I'll try again without the goblet ( was cool to see in a movie though )

Small update ( and smaller image )

Think I found something pretty cool.... not going to say how it's done until I master it

i have managed to have a few goes,dont think i would have got very far without the vid.
the column of buttons on the left side of animator start blinking frenetically whilst using the script, cpu usage around 70%.
running on a vista laptop.a bit worrying but it didn't blow up!
it's a very exiting tool...fabulous work.

I think you mean exciting...... unless of course you was quik to make an exit from of it

I kind of see what you are refering to now
The idea is to get a good trasition from morph to morph, independant of any paticular morph created. This in fact requires the original object and cannot be readily changed. The "referance" MUST be "none". or morphs wont work the way they should.
However. There may be a way that can be implemented to "copy" a morph already created to speed up your modeling in the next morph, yet still retaining the original object as the referance.

To those that do scripting ( something I havent had the time to do myself yet ) this might be a good project


However. I would not pass up the oppritunity to better understand morphs clearly by example. The only advantage to starting from an already created morph might be modeling speed, and will not always be the case.
http://www.anim8or.com/tutorials/from_users/morphs/MorphTut.htm

The lock/unlock idea sounds great. I would also include with this colored wireframes to indicate the state and as seporation of the objects.

As for the second suggestion. you should not need more than one of a specific morph.
To close the mouth, just reverse your effects/

Open mouth - close mouth.
Open mouth - open wider - cloaw mouth

First note that close mouth IS your original object. thus an actual "close mouth" is not really needed.

if you have "open wider" set as it's own morph from original object, then you can easily reverse Open mouth at the same time "Open wider".

If you have not done so, check out my tutorial on morphs. As simple as it is, it will give you a very good understanding on how morphs work and can be applied