They say eyes are the windows to the soul. Eyes are such an important part of communicating emotions, and critical to having an expressive puppet.
In this tutorial, Character Animator’s Dave Werner explains four different approaches to rigging the eyes of a puppet. Dave walks us through;
Here at ElectroPuppet, we also give our puppets expressive brows, so when you want your puppet to look angry, worried, surprised or quizzical, the eyebrows help give the puppet a little more emotion.
You can download the example project here;
Example Eyes Project
ElectroPuppet acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land, the Gumbaynggirr people.
We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging.