QUIZ: What's Going OnNow that almost everyone is wearing a mask, it's become much harder to read facial expressions. But the eyes can express quite a lot, depending on the emotion. We invite you to test your knowledge of the six basic facial expressions, with the eyes alone "in action." Take a look at Figures 1 through 7 below and see if you can determine which of these expressions match the masked faces - Fear, Anger, Neutral, Joy, Disgust, Surprise and Sadness. Good luck! Figure 1.
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The Hardest SMILE to DrawKey Concept: The elusive Stifled Smile is the hardest smile to capture in fine art and animation. Figure 1. Cartoonist Bill Griffiths tries his hand at the Stifled Smile, using line work only – a difficult task. The Stifled Smile is a real smile where someone is trying to hold it back, deploying lower face muscles like the Chin Raiser and the Triangularis that fight the upward pull (Figure 4). The use of tone would make describing the complex facial topography a bit easier.
What is the FROWN Threshold?Key Concept - The two key facial cues for recognizing a frown are the steep angle and lowered position of the inner eyebrows. Figures 1 & 2: The face trasnforms from Neutral to Angry when the inner eyebrows lower significantly at a pronounced angle.
Sonic CRASH!KEY CONCEPT: Less-than-stellar stylized character design can be brought to life by well-posed facial expressions. Case in point, the two different facial designs of “Sonic the Hedgehog" developed for the recently-released movie. Figure 1. The original, beloved "Sonic the Hedgehog" character, developed for the eponymous video game by Sega and released in 1991 was designed by, Naoto Ohshima, who admitted that Sonic's basic design combined Felix the Cat's head with Mickey Mouse's body.
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FAIGIN FACE BLOGSo many faces. So many ways to express emotions. Faigin examines facial expressions in movie stills, cartoons, fine art, illustrations and photographs and shares his insightful analyses in his monthly blog. FACE BLOG INDEX
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