Free Face Resources By Topic
Facial Action Coding System (FACS) & Facial Anatomy
Hesitant to spend $350 on a PDF? Here are eight signs you may want to save your money.
An exploration in the variability of our eyebrow muscles and inner brow raising styles.
A breakdown of the differences between AU6 – cheek raiser and AU7 – lid tightener.
Demonstrating how soft tissue depth changes with facial expressions.
How to improve facial animation with FACS and facial anatomy literacy: Diving into eye smiles.
Face Tracking & Lipsync Technology
New to the world of facial captures? Learn a few quick tips before you begin your journey.
For those working on lipsync and need a handy reference sheet for visemes and phonemes, here you go!
Human biases leak into technology through many avenues. Here we dissect widespread flaws in facial expression and emotion tracking approaches.
Our eyes are much more complicated than the standard differentiation of: mono eyelid vs. double eyelid.
If the Viseme Cheat Sheet and other viseme prototypes are not doing it for you, this post may help you unpack the why of it all.
Why our facial idiosyncrasies are so helpful in capturing identity in our performance.
Faces in Behavior, Emotions, Perception, & Design
Are crow’s feet are legitimate markers of “genuine” smiles? Reviewing the oversimplification of emotional expressions and the gaps in emotion research.
A reflection of the time I helped Meta redesign its Facebook emoji set and took part in the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee.
How you can get more out of user research by observing and documenting behavior.
There is unusual overlap between the features we use to define a smile’s beauty and the features we use to define a smile’s creepiness. Let’s unpack these boundaries.
