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I got his eyes glued today! They turned out pretty good for my first attempt at making follow me eyes. You can sort of see that effect here, but it's much more noticeable with eyelids on. I'll let them sit for a few days before temporarily fitting them to the head to start working out the mechanism for making the eyes blink.

Can you see why this will be a little more difficult than most blinking puppet designs? The eyes aren't facing forward like they would be on a humanoid puppet. They are more on the side of the head so I can't simply make a pull-down bar that connects both of them (that's how most puppet eyes work). I will have to design my own pull bar that can make two angled eyes blink at the same time and be controlled with only a simple tug of one finger.

I have a few designs scribbled out. Will they work? I sure home one of them does!

Description
I got his eyes glued today! They turned out pretty good for my first attempt at making follow me eyes. You can sort of see that effect here, but it's much more noticeable with eyelids on. I'll let them sit for a few days before temporarily fitting them to the head to start working out the mechanism for making the eyes blink.

Can you see why this will be a little more difficult than most blinking puppet designs? The eyes aren't facing forward like they would be on a humanoid puppet. They are more on the side of the head so I can't simply make a pull-down bar that connects both of them (that's how most puppet eyes work). I will have to design my own pull bar that can make two angled eyes blink at the same time and be controlled with only a simple tug of one finger.

I have a few designs scribbled out. Will they work? I sure home one of them does!