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Here's a quick tutorial on how to make some realistic eyeballs. After a while I won't be able to update this thread with lessons learned so please go to my album for the latest corrections and updates: Halloween Forum - Terra's Album: Tutorial: Realistic Eyeballs
This all started because I needed an eye color that I couldn't find available on the web so I made my own. Since I was in Photoshop, I made 90 more. heh. Okay, here goes the tut.... get your wine out
The Skeleton Store sells these nifty clear eyeballs. Here's a picture of them inside a skull and a link to the website where you can get them. They are $4 a pair: Pair of Blue Eyeballs at Skeleton Store | Plastic Skulls and Bones, Skeleton Props
Unfortunately, the color is wrong for the prop I was building. Fiddling around with it, I made a neat discovery. The pupil pops out. Cool!
On the back of the pupil is the painted-on blue iris. So, I carefully scratched it off trying not to scratch the clear plastic.
So, off to Photoshop I went. I made a High Resolution .jpg file of 90 normal and monster eyes. They are a collection of human, reptile, bird, fish, mammal and custom weird ones (monster) I found and compiled from taxidermy sites and other pictures of pupils on the web (credit to Eye Makers for some of them). The available file size is a perfect fit for the inside of the pupil on the Skeleton Store eyes. If you want them bigger than that, I still have the original Photoshop file so I could send you the file of just the eye you want and you could resize it yourself.
If you have a web site and can put up 'Terra's Halloween Eyes .jpg' on the internet in it's full resolution and size, that would be GREAT!
I will link your site to this tutorial. EDIT: Whoo Hoo!!!! Thanks to Larry you can now download the file:
http://www.halloweenforum.com/special/TerrasHalloweenEyes.jpg
Here you can see the cornea sitting over one of the pupils on the paper. The eye on the left is the original pupil that came with the eye.
You will also notice that I painted the white of the eye. Further in this tutorial I explain how I did that.
Continued next post......
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This all started because I needed an eye color that I couldn't find available on the web so I made my own. Since I was in Photoshop, I made 90 more. heh. Okay, here goes the tut.... get your wine out
The Skeleton Store sells these nifty clear eyeballs. Here's a picture of them inside a skull and a link to the website where you can get them. They are $4 a pair: Pair of Blue Eyeballs at Skeleton Store | Plastic Skulls and Bones, Skeleton Props
Unfortunately, the color is wrong for the prop I was building. Fiddling around with it, I made a neat discovery. The pupil pops out. Cool!
On the back of the pupil is the painted-on blue iris. So, I carefully scratched it off trying not to scratch the clear plastic.
So, off to Photoshop I went. I made a High Resolution .jpg file of 90 normal and monster eyes. They are a collection of human, reptile, bird, fish, mammal and custom weird ones (monster) I found and compiled from taxidermy sites and other pictures of pupils on the web (credit to Eye Makers for some of them). The available file size is a perfect fit for the inside of the pupil on the Skeleton Store eyes. If you want them bigger than that, I still have the original Photoshop file so I could send you the file of just the eye you want and you could resize it yourself.
If you have a web site and can put up 'Terra's Halloween Eyes .jpg' on the internet in it's full resolution and size, that would be GREAT!
http://www.halloweenforum.com/special/TerrasHalloweenEyes.jpg
Here you can see the cornea sitting over one of the pupils on the paper. The eye on the left is the original pupil that came with the eye.
You will also notice that I painted the white of the eye. Further in this tutorial I explain how I did that.
Continued next post......
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