An animator friend of mine is starting to dive into the realm of facial animation so I promised him I’d dig up as many resources on Facial Rigging as I could.  So instead of just sending it over to him I figured otheres might be able to benefit from my hard work   This is primarily for Maya users .

Here’s a 2 Part Series:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx6m83II56w[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-PrX_880b8[/youtube]

Here’s a big 7 Parter that goes into some great advanced Detail:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0KxxAGAo2c[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf4CPjy1d8A[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-thkZt9-S4[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9dAVhmAQLU[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2o__xrx80s[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxkw-LV9w78[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7TEdermksc[/youtube]

Quick Tut expaining some of the principles behind facial animation:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTsJ81fJc88[/youtube]

Facial Animation Rig for Delgo: Not a  video tut but this covers some non-human faces which is rare

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/tutorials/character/c/facial-animation-rig-for-delgo

This page is not animation specific but HOLY CRAP the tutorials on this page are insane:

http://www.instantshift.com/2009/03/06/45-incredible-maya-tutorials-around/