Facial action coding system

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In last week’s blog post we began our introduction into stop-motion animation, covering a brief history. This week, we cover pre-production and more! Pre-production Think about what you want to...

Explore the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), an in-depth tool developed by Dr. Paul Ekman for analyzing facial expressions and emotions

To do body language as a language while still answering the brief, we must not use posture or facial expressions. These two ways of communicating exist and are universal. Instead we can produce a conversation using our hands and faces.

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is the most widely acknowledged, comprehensive, and credible system of measuring visually discernable facial movements. It was developed by psychologists Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen with the intention of objectively measuring facial expressions for behavioral science investigations (Ekman, Friesen, 1978; Ekman, Friesen, Hager, 2002). Before the development of […]

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