Ideas how to animate Pacman

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Merry X-Mas everyone!

I started to create a 3D Pacman. Sounds like an easy task due it's spherical shape. Modeling a still is no prob, but I have troubles to animate this beast's mouth-animation (close mouth<->open mouth cycle).

Any ideas how to get this done without large distortions?
Maybe morphing is the way to go, so I will try this next.

I know many skilled artists fly around here, so any hint would be wonderful.

Jake

PS: I'm using XSI 5