I didn't mean to say that FACS is boring. It's just that the first document about it I Googled looked a somewhat dry and tedious, and I have a short attention span. :biggrin:

I think the system Osipa describes in his book is quite similar in spirit, but simpler and optimized to work "well enough" for animation purposes. Basically, each individual morph does something your face can actually do. If you widen your lips, that movement involves a rather large part of your face, and that has to be modeled in order to get realistic result. I think the main difference to something like FACS is that he tried to identified the morphs that are most important to get a credibly "acting" character. So I imagine if I start with those I'll get something pretty workable to start from, and I can still read up on FACS and add more morphs later on if I want.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.