The following lectures are available as online recordings for individuals and groups who have purchased access.
Recorded lectures are not included in the monthly or yearly Face the FACS site subscriptions. For more information on the All about Lipsync lecture or the FACS Cram Session, click here.
All About Lipsync: ~2 hrs
An artist’s guide to phonemes, visemes, and speech mechanics
- How to break down speech sounds into their essential articulatory components and categorize them by phoneme class
- Applying flexible strategies to map phonemes to visemes with clarity and nuance
- Supporting natural, expressive lipsync with modular approaches tailored to performance context
FACS Cram Session: 2 hrs
An artist’s guide to the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
- The ins and outs of action units, how they work, and what they look like
- Beyond the FACS Manual: Applying FACS concepts to 2D and 3D characters
- Exploring the fundamentals of facial anatomy
- Getting animators, modelers, and riggers speaking the same language
