ANIMAFEST PRO | Lecture Chris Landreth - Making Faces

Lecture Chris Landreth, Karan Singh - Making Faces

Are you ready for your close-up? Animating your characters' faces requires more than great animation skills. You also need to be an actor, physician, psychologist and detective. Making Faces is an intensive class about animating a human face. You learn how to see a face and its features when a person talks, feels, and expresses. We cover anatomy and muscle behavior, and we explore what's really going on underneath a face when your character is showing emotion. We show examples of great facial acting, and the psychology behind this acting that makes human characters come alive.

You will learn: the features of facial expression, the psychology behind the expression, the anatomy behind the emotion, great facial acting and great facial animation.

Chris Landreth, animator and filmmaker

Karan Singh, professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto