Character Animation Reference: The Facial Expression Repertoire

The Facial Expression Repertoire: a small sample of the large library of facial expressions images and videos. The cleverly organized archive allow fast and precise search for the right reference.
Fantastic resource for character animators in search of human face expression reference. In the Facial Expression Repertoire animators will find categorized facial expression in the form of still images, video clips and textual description of each of the emotions, physical states and conversational expressions.

Human face change expression so quickly that becomes very hard for artists and animator to capture micro-movements. An image library is a valuable resource for guidelines and references.
This is an enormously useful animation reference library for traditional 2D and digital 3D animators.
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The facial expression reference database has been created by the Institute Of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Post Production of Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg.
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May 20th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Hey , this can prove to be very useful. At least animators no longer need to spend hours looking at themselves in the mirror.
Nice!
December 1st, 2009 at 12:56 am
Wow, I think Im gonna like it very much.