From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu_Ren=E9?= <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 14:55:42 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Good News


Congratulations, Conrad. I have been following your process with much 
interest.

What are you going to use for the puppet eyes?
Are you going realistic, or simplified?

Black or dark brown glass marbles often give a wonderfully alive gaze that 
works perfectly with stylised puppets like yours. If no glass marbles can be 
found, painted wooden beads, dipped in high gloss varnish (counter top epoxy 
is best for me so far, but nail polish works nice too for small eyes).

I haven't been able to make super realistic eyes work right for stage 
puppets. It seems the simpler eye motifs, with or without iris (and if iris, 
should be simple), are best.

For film, photo realistic glass or plastic eyes can work nice, for some 
reason.

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