So, let's recap.

1. No Photorealism - give the characters a little design. Just enough so the audience accepts them as animated characters and doesn't spend the whole movie thinking "ugh, that looks fake."

2. No Monster House designs - it looked awful

3. Get animators to HAND animate the faces.

Okay, I feel better.

The ear lobes have to move around a bit in relation to jaw movements as well. Place your finger on that triangular piece of skin just before the hole in your ear. Talk for a bit feel it moving about. It moves quite a bit and so does the lower lobe portion.

This was overlooked this in Beowulf.

Also The skin needs to react like it has blood flowing through it controlling it's color. When someone gets mad the skin needs to get red if they die it goes pale if a hand is resting on the face for a long time it leaves a red or white color print.

You guy still ignore the fingernails and how they change colors when the hand grasps things.

The mercury flow of the facial animation has to stop.

Someone needs to study how much each area moves in relation to facial actions.

Draw a line grid on a real face study it in 10x resolution look at how much the skin moves and set up a program that refuses skin surface animation effects that deviate from true possible pull effects that the skin would endure in what ever facials animated pose is made.

The teeth under the mouth have to have a deformation effect against the skin pushing it about and thinning it, depending on how the skin is pulled against it.

This CGI stuff will look real one day- you have to keep pushing it. And CGI is getting to the point where it cost less than it does to hire actors and shoot real stuff.

Basically recreating how the skin areas all over the face and neck respond- How some areas have less and or more give too them.

The face is still animated as it is captured in mocap, but the flesh has it own directive as too how it decides too respond too those give and pulls.