Okay, so, lately I've noticed moving minifigure's arms around to simulate "Talking" action, looks a bit too odd for my liking, let alone it not being very original. So, now I want to make all of my future videos a mix of arm movements, and facial/mouth animation. As you all know, I recently obtained Adobe After Effects (*Brag *), and would like to learn how to do facial animation with that. But, I've searched the forums, and google, and could not find a tutorial. So, I come to you guys, on a hopeful tutorial. I've tried the puppet tool, but that looks really strange, and, I don't want to do it frame by frame necessarily (I will if I must), so, is there anyway I can do minimal animation, and still get a nice result?

(By the way, I know about glue face and Papagayo, but, those seem to not work on my computer )

I have a couple examples of Mouth Animation I would like to try to get the same result as.

KG's "There Will Be Bricks"
Smeagol's "Lost Clip"
and RatBoy's Test

Thanks for reading guys. Any help or tips would be great