(that would be at the sculpt stage)

Good luck, it's a ton of work...I was in the middle of doing mouth and teeth redesign on an older model when I got hit by RTO at work and had to shelve blender indefinitely. I honestly prefer the commute to modeling a mouth.

I faintly remember seeing someone model mouth closed in an anthro model and then used a plane (maybe with some thickness) as a temporary boolean to cut/separate the jaw geometry, rotating the resulting lower jaw mesh to get an accurate placement. Lots of tricks like that probably.

Mouth open vs mouth closed is a debate...when I tried sculpting I did closed and modeled the mouth and teeth by hand. Doing that after retopo is nice because you can hide mirror modifier to work inside. I've also seen people model genetic teeth and gums and use them as a template with heavy editing

i know that as the artist i can technically make characters ANY color i want

but i just can't get away from nice earthy toned characters. even the lab rat lady is relatively realistic (except her hair lol)

I've been using blender for decades and been involved with development for the past 5 years. I'm tired of the way important issues get paved over and ignored and this is why I haven't and won't give blender's dev fund a cent or any more of my time. Otherwise I'd be donating quite a lot per month.

We'll have to agree to disagree. My oldest bug on the tracker is almost 5 years old. most of my bugs get closed as "known issue" or "future work" that never gets done. the bugs that I need fixed rot in favor of new development on grease pencil and Eevee despite the later still having regressions.

Ah yes, let's add new features and ignore the several thousand bug reports waiting in the bug tracker.

This is why I don't pay into the dev fund. Misplaced priorities.

Ughgggghh the titration is always an ✨ adventure ✨