I just found this on Sqwigly, it's not a full animation it's more about the animation process. It's about Sean Gregory's main second year animation. He is from the South of Wales. I found it really interesting it shows the way they animated it using replacement faces for all different facial expressions and vowels etc that they can just switch in and out seamlessly. I think that is such a cleaver idea! It's done using stop motion and after effects mainly. They used green screening processes too. I just love this idea of swapping the face instead of editing it. However I feel that possibly this could ruin some effects because it might look too much the same. I guess real people do that though , everyone has sort of their own set of facial expressions.
Some of his influences include Pixar, The Flynn twins, Paranorman, nick park- some of which i have never heard of so i might have a look.
http://www.skwigly.co.uk/showcase/mirror-image-production-showreel/
This image is from Paranorman. This also uses this technique but in this they used a 3D printer to create each face as a whole as you can see on the image below. So clever! must have taken forever but i think it would speed up the overall process.
Some animators do the facial parts separately like this image which is from Coroline. Each new facial feature is just clipped into place. So interesting!!!!
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