Facial Expressions and Animators

Facial animation is the process of turning a characterʼs

speech and emotional state into facial poses and motion. However, animating human and characters faces still presents interesting challenges because of its familiarity as the face is the part used to recognize individuals and personality. Its importance is based in that faces have their own language where each expression is not only related to emotions, anger, hapiness, sadness, etc. but is also linked to other aspects like voice and content (Ping, Abdullah,Sulaiman, and Halin,2013). 

Capture emotions in facial expressions have always been an issue of concern for animators, includings talented illustrators of Disney and Warner Bros. Bellow is shown some pictures from 1950s legendary professionals looking themselves into the mirror to help drawing the facial expressions needed in the animation(Dovas, 2014). 

References: 

Dovas (2014). Disney Animators Study their reflections in the mirror to draw their characters right. Bored Panda [Online] Available http://www.boredpanda.com/mirror-facial-expression-disney-animator/. [Accessed:5 October 2014]

Ping, H. Abdullah,L. Sulaiman,P. and Halin, A. (2013). Computer Facial Animation: A Review. International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 4.