would an eyeball character work?

[Maligor]

Have you watched the film Monster Inc from Pixar? If you havent, do watch it, its a fantastic show. That aside, the movie have very good reference for a one eyed monster, namely, Mike Wazowski. That should give you all the reference you need, take a look here http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/inc/chars_pop2.html

[jigsawe]

yes, i have seen the film, i think more than 50 times. im a huge pixar nut.

the difference is that Mike has an eye socket and eyebrow to show emotion with the eye. The eye alone shows a lot of different things. my character wouldnt have that.

i was doodling the other day and i realized that if you have one mouthshape and add different eyes to the face you can have so many different expressions.

[Scheppi]

hi jigsawe.

you´ve to give your character soul, history and background. there must be a reason why he looks like he looks. design follows function with clear consequences (dis-/advantages).

have a look to ed hooks "acting for animators" and test your char in animation - what is he able to do and what not.

so far...nice day and have fun

[saxofoner]

You could use the pupil as the "face" and the iris could be used to emote.

[aarrgghh]

even for a lidless orb, there's a lot you can do just by squishing, stretching, moving and bouncing the pupil around to help your character emote.

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