The first 3D animations of a human face are wonderfully creepy
by David Pescovitz from on (#579F9)
While a graduate student at the University of Utah in the early 1970s, computer graphics pioneer Frederic Parke created some of the first 3D models of human faces. The research was supported by the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (now called DARPA). Parke's wife Vicky was one the models.
Here's the full technical report from 1972: "Computer generation animation of faces"