Animal Face is Seed Junky Genetics' cross of Face Off OG and Animal Mints, and the phenotype that made it famous was hunted from seed by Fig Farms in Oakland. It is old-school gas, pine, lemon, skunk, and fuel wrapped in the dense, greasy structure of modern dessert genetics. Fig Farms' Animal Face took 1st place in Indoor Flower at the 2022 Emerald Cup Awards.
Two different jobs, two different houses
The distinction is the whole story. Seed Junky Genetics bred the cross and created the population; Fig Farms hunted that population and picked one plant out of it. Both pieces of work were necessary, and neither one substitutes for the other.
Fig Farms made the selection during the Proposition 215 era and chose that plant specifically because it read like Face Off OG. That was a deliberate hunt for the OG side of the cross rather than the cookie side, and it is why Animal Face turned out savory where most of its peers turned out sweet. More of the breeder's catalog sits on the Seed Junky Genetics brand page.
Fig Farms says it hunted the selection during the Proposition 215 era and chose it for its likeness to Face Off OG. The current first-party page still credits Seed Junky as breeder and Fig Farms as grower and seed hunter.
The Emerald Cup run
Fig Farms' first-party page identifies Animal Face as a first-place Emerald Cup and High Times Cannabis Cup winner. Contemporary trade coverage separately confirms the Emerald Cup indoor-flower win and notes that the winning phenotype was hunted from seed.
That result pushed Animal Face from a respected Bay Area cut into a national reference point for gas-forward indoor flower. It also settled an argument: a phenotype hunt, done properly, is as valuable as the breeding that precedes it.
What each parent gave it
Face Off OG carries the pine, lemon, earth, and penetrating fuel of the OG Kush line. Animal Mints brings mint, sweet dough, spice, and the tight, resin-heavy bud structure buyers expect from contemporary flower. The selection leaned hard toward the OG parent.
Fig Farms describes it bluntly as a heavy-duty, old-school, skunky gassy OG with megaphone terps, and lists notes of kiwi, black licorice, paint thinner, and yellow Froot Loops. That last cluster is more useful than it sounds — the solvent-and-artificial-fruit combination is exactly what separates this from a straight Kush profile.
What the flower looks like
Neon green and Kush-shaped, fading to pink and purple tips in the final weeks. It is greasy to the touch and leaves visible oil rings on a joint, which is a fair rough proxy for how much resin the plant is putting out.
Fig Farms' sensory notes emphasize kiwi, black licorice, paint thinner and yellow fruit candy. Effects and ideal time of use remain individual rather than breeder-guaranteed.
Why it still matters
Animal Face is now a benchmark cut — the plant people name when they argue that selection work deserves credit alongside breeding. It also proved that a savory, gas-first profile could win at the top level during a period when nearly everything on the shelf was chasing candy.
For the sweeter side of the same family, Kush Mints is the direct comparison, and Animal Instincts covers neighboring territory in the Animal line.