Animating with Blender

Facial Expressions

While you are perfectly welcome to add facial expressions during the main animation phase, I have found that I like to wait until the animation is more refined. Things can change when working in overlap, anticipation and follow through that alter the feeling of the overall performance, giving you a slightly different set of cues for the facial expressions.

Proper timing and overlap are certainly necessary when working with the face, although using anticipation and follow through are inappropriate except for the most exaggerated expressions. Anticipation and follow through are such necessary tools in bodily animation because they simulate the physical momentum of having a body. There is not a lot of mass and momentum involved ...