Well, I don't know if one was amazed by the rendering of the martian head(excuse my poor english I write from france) but besides the animation and cute character it was really well lit, really cool.
I don't know how you setup lights for such a result but that's really impressive,
kind of Pixar styled lighting.
Regarding the mouth, I tried many techniques before I saw messiah animator
and their flexbones as well as painted weights in Ma...a.
I got a look at messiah:animate samples on PMG website and it was my only source for making a fish character in 2002, but I didn't go really far at that time due to many...things of life.
Oh congratulations for being a new father Mr Navone, that's a great moment
that balances positively all the worst things in this world.
again thanks for your kind and joyfullness Mr navone, as well as for your alien song