Ive had to rework my schedule a bit due to wishful thinking on my part (blendshapes in a day - yeh right) So the plan is-
Blendshapes - finshed by Monday
Rigging + Painting weights - finshed by Weds eve.
And so far im on schedule.
Excuse the crappy cheesy animation, twas only a quick test to see if all the blendshapes are working together which they seem to be (if anyone sees any errors let me know). Its been a pretty steep learning curve over the past couple of days, luckily i only had to restart the blendshapes once. And incase anyone wondering its 9 mouth controls, 4 eyebrow controls a nose and two eyes. And I didnt want to spend time configuring the controls to float off to the side of his head so i knocked together some quick outline heads and applyed to controls to that, it just means that i'll have to have another window open with this view in it.