Googly Eyes

[CBPuppets]

Hi I'm considering about making googley eyes for a New Puppet I'm Currently Designing and Building. Do you have any tips about how I can make them?

 

[staceyrebecca]

Googly as in the eyeballs move around? or googly as in bulgey? Or googly as in they'll find information for you quickly allowing you to choose from many websites? (sorry)

For bulgey eyes, ping pong balls, paper maiche spheres, or any other round-ish thing would do (Pom poms are fun)

For moveable pupils, do the ping pong ball thing and take a piece of black plastic (in a circle) Pierce it with a small nail (painted black) and shove it into your ping pong ball. Don't center your hole & it can flop around like Cookie Monster's eyes.

For the latter, Umm..I think it takes coding. Not sure what else...Maybe a hard drive.

 

[RockerRob]

That is so simple! I have wondered how they make the puplis bounce around like that and now I know! And knowing is half the battle.

 

[staceyrebecca]

That's how I assume it's done anyway. I'm not certain that's how the muppets do it.

 

[Buck-Beaver]

I am pretty sure that's exactly how they do Cookie Monster's eyes.

 

[CBPuppets]

That's exactly the kind of googley eyes I'm Referring to. do you have any tips?

 

[Lab Rat]

i have done those type of eyes i found it works well with wooden balls painted white then the panel pin or small nail has something to hold on to.

 

[CBPuppets]

Didn't they use those materials for Cookie Monster?

 

[Lab Rat]

i think they did

 

[Was Once Ernie]

Cookie Monster's pupils are secured with tiny (very tiny) screws. I remember that distinctly since you can see the slot in the end on close inspection, but I don't know what the actual eyeballs are made from.