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Gerasimov method

The Russian anatomical facial approximation technique developed by Mikhail Gerasimov from the 1930s, in which the facial muscles are individually reconstructed on the skull from their bony attachment points before the skin surface is modelled. Published in systematic form in 'The Face Finder' (English translation, 1971).

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