How to Make Realistic Eyes Using 3D Printing for Animatronic Eye Mechanisms
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2019
- The first video in my series on how to build my 3D printed animatronic eye mechanisms, this video covers the process for making my realistic eyes. Using 3D printing, painting and casting, anyone can replicate the eyes you see in this video! The next video will cover the 3D printing and assembly of my simple arduino animatronic eye mechanism design.
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Parts and Materials needed for this project:
White 3D printing filament - ABS is recommended but PLA is fine.
Roughly 500ml of casting silicone: amzn.to/2JbMYx0
A very small amount of clear casting resin: amzn.to/32CjBvo
Some small screws - M2 x 10mm-20mm : amzn.to/2JcftdQ (but any similar size should work fine)
Acrylic paints
Red cotton thread
Superglue
Airbrush (optional)
Download files for the project here: www.nilheim.co.uk/latest-proje...
If you're unclear on any part of the video and you'd like to read some thorough text and image instructions, see my instructable: www.instructables.com/id/How-...
Check the new Nilheim Mechatronics site: www.nilheim.co.uk/ 
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for the Iris, you can also use different colored threads and a similar method to how you made the blood vessels, and build up the structure. its how glass eyes are made
So you're the eye guy from bladerunner huh? "I just do eyes!".
Why would anyone not like this? Awesome job!
Me and my friend were watching the video and I was like that's so cool and he was like why are there no brown eyes? Most people have brown eyes you know, this is bullcrap.
There is your answer
Goodness, it's not a very logical tutorial, definitely not a step by step video and if you don't know how to do something like this the video will make absolutely no sense, quite a jumbled mess actually. Also his accent and use of British jargon makes it even worse. He does make a nice eye in the end however, but is not a very good tutorial
I would definitely ask for a refund.
Evil Bob, 27 people apaently
@@EricStrebel It's perfectly fine as long as you have an IQ above 80. Do you need your hand held when you go wee-wee, too?
Great job, thanks for sharing your process! Your mechanisms also look great, I appreciate that you release this openly
Great video and the voiceover is fantastic! A clear, very relaxed, and thorough explanation of everything involved. Thanks very much.
Beautiful work there, definitely going to try making some of these
Beautiful technique. So glad RUclips suggested this video on my home page or I would never have found your channel.
Love how realistic they look when blinking. And the cotton thread for veins was great - I'll have to use that!
This is interesting!!!! 💖💖 Can't wait for the mechanism!! 💕
Thanks Will! I was looking forward to this coming out. I like your universal design for the snap fit. Great work on this!
Well done , truely inspiring
Beautiful work!
Best Tutorial i have seen all year! So creative and thanks very much! Look forward to more, have a great day mate.
This is amazing
Excellent work!
Wow - that’s amazing!! Nice work!!
Maaan! I love this !!
Thank you very much for this series. 😎
great instructions. and the eyes look amazing
Impressive paint work!!!
These eyes are really beautifull. I love it!
Well these are awesome they look so real
I’m not even using a 3D printer, but instead doing this by hand, yet your video helped me make a more realistic eye. Thank you, good video!
Really nice process! Thanks for sharing
Amazing, you are very talented.
Amazing job
Wonderfully done, Will.
Exactly the Video i was looking for! Thank you mate
Very cool stuff!
It's just awesome
NICE JOB !
Wow, these are stunning!
right?
Great job! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks a lot for the video, i wondered how did you managed to make the eye so realistic, now I know 😀
Great techniques mate. Nice one 👍
awesome!
Absolute cool Will , Nice Video Thx .
I was working on eye's to pla arround with movement. But creating an eyeball was something I got stuck on and this wel this solves everything! :D They just look insane! I love it!
awesome video
Brother, you are going places! What a terrific 👁 for detail you have. 🧐
Nice work
this is a very well put together vid
Thanks for this 👍
Marvelous!
Here is a simple no-cost way to reduce the number of bubbles: Mix your silicone as usual. When you fill your container, place it on the floor. Pour from table height with the skinniest stream possible. It's like magic! Need to be careful that you don't entrain more air at the point where the resin starts filling the container.
👁 think you did a great job. Great technics 👍🏽😊
Amazing Work you are Really Great ❤️🙏❤️
love your work! you inspires me! please keep doing it :)
Oh nice find! Going to print these on the resin printer, bet the eyes will come out really smooth. No idea what I need eyes for, but I know I need them :) Thanks!!
You can use a blow torch on low settings or mayby just a lighter to remove the bubbles, works great
Thanks !
Great series! I'm looking forward to more! I controlled 9 PIDs (for my gigantic robot hand on my channel) with an Arduino, so I bet a nano could handle a bunch of these!
I'm not exactly making any of these but this is really cool, looking forward for the mechanism
Wow your eyes are beautiful! Idk about yours but the ones you make look awesome haha
Gladly hit the sub and bell!
Keep up the great work I’ll be looking forward to more.
Another trick to reduce the bubbles is to pour the silicone in a thin stream. The thin stream breaks the bubbles as they pour.
Thanks for making this video. I've been thinking about trying to make some eyes myself.
The thin stream method should also help with the clear acrylic too.
Thanks again for sharing your work. Those eyes look great!
I work with silicone casting occasionally and found that refrigerating the cast helps draw the bubbles out, no idea if it would work with the resin
nice man
this is scary. I love it! Imagine putting a camera inside that eyeball as well.
Amazing work... And yeah you need a vacuum chamber.
But honestly impressive stuff...
Fun fact: the red thread technique is evidently the same one used for professionally-made glass eyes for humans!
Anyway this was super cool and I'm glad YT popped it up in my recommended vids - thanks so much for sharing!
Youu aree brilliantttt😍😍😍
With ABS you can use vapor smoothing for the eyes.
I made my own eyes out of porcelain. Doll and puppets have great mechanical eyes. Historically eyes are glass and costly. The one I made could be customized. You had many steps to complete -glazing and China painting the eyes. This is great as it opens up a process for many people who want to make their own, yet don’t have a kiln and pottery skills. This is a very nice presentation!
Looks awesome! If you do the resin bit in a small homemade vacuum chamber you might be able to pull more of the bubbles out.
You deserve 100K subs!!
“The T-600s has rubber skin, be spotted them easy. But these are new. They look human!”
- Kyle Reese.
Awesome! hope u will release the stl files for the Eye Mechanism soon... im so ready to print it!! :)
Thanks, it's obvious you put a lot of thought and elbow grease into both the eye system and your video. Happy 2020..
Been wanting to create an eye mechanism for a mask/ university project of mine like these, only issue is that I need the iris to glow yellow, these eye mechanism videos have been very inspiring 👍✨
Now i wanna build a creepy doorbell 👀👍
Thats super cool
4:27 Setting a timestamp for myself, since it's 3AM and I can't stay awake.
So far, the video looks amazing, and I can't wait to finish it tomorrow!
Really nice eyes, looks like you are in need of a pressure pot to get all the bubbles out.
I'd love to see what you could do with a resin 3D printer . Amazing work . I look forward to more videos.
I've just started following this procedure, using resin printed eyeballs. Elegoo ABS white seems to come out a nice off-white colour.
Eye , eye, lovin it a look up 😜🗣️🙏💪💯💯🇬🇧
Cool
Amazing Job! The thread is a great idea for random effect. 🤔 I want to incorporate LEDs some how.
Now I know why I always felt ABS was prettier, the subsurf scattering
*subsurface
nice work fellow yorkshireman
TL/DR - Use the gray eyeball in this video as the mold eyeball.
I'm a pretty smart guy, I'll admit it. But even I was confused on the process. I went back and discovered that the main eyeball (gray) you worked on already had the iris in there and was the completed shape. When you made your mold you used that eyeball and not the ones without the iris. Seems logical now but it wasn't until I dug into the video a few times.
I'd also like to think this would be great to do in resin. I believe that I will be doing mine in resin.
Amazing job!!! I can't thank you enough for sharing all of this with us!
Thanks for the video!! I'm building and modeling a skeksis-head, more specifically the chamberlain's, your video will help me to continue working on it. Can you make vlt a video with a simple blinking mechanism, that would be awesome
love it and want to know more
Vacuum chamber would be good, but you can actually do reasonably well with pressure, and it's much cheaper/more accessible. All you need is a strong sealed container, a schrader valve from an old bike inner tube, and a bike pump. This approach is no good for big parts, since the chamber needs to be big and it's way too much pumping, but eyes are small, it should be easy. You only need like 60 psi for pressure casting, which is not too hard to contain.
These are incredible, I think for me, heat is the most effective way of removing bubbles from clear resin but slow mixing with a round stick like a skewer, rather than a flat object like a popsicle stick helps to not introduce them in the first place
A round stick makes sense actually, thanks for the tip.
Best would be ABS of ASA filament and use vapor smoothing to give it a nice smooth and glossy surface.
Great work! Looks a bit scary to.
Great job on that! So I can build Rey android.
Excellent video and excellent work! I’d really love to experiment with your eye mech but I don’t have a 3D printer! All of my eyes are static
I’m not so keen on using cotton thread. I like to pour clear epoxy over the top of the eye so that it appears to have a clear gelatinous membrane and when you use thread, the pour backs up and makes it uneven. Instead I’ve started using red and blue flocking for the microscopic capillaries which is mixed in with my epoxy that I use for the main body of the eye. The clear epoxy is mixed with a tiny amount of white acrylic paint and the end result is a translucent effect. To get the appearance of many of these capillaries together like at the back of the eye, I use a seperate concentrated mix of flocking which I mix into the mould around the back circumference with a cocktail stick. After that I paint on larger veins with a detail brush. Your perception joins the tiny capillaries to the larger veins even though there is nothing there to join them up.
Finally! I couldn't find how you did your eyes on this channel, I was worried you wouldn't share with us.
Thank you!
Great video.
This is wonderful stuff can't wait to see more. What size are the eyes compared to human eyes?
Keep up the Great work.
Hate to necropost but human eyes range from 21 mm to 27 mm. You can print an eye to be that size, smaller, bigger. It's up to you. The eye in the download is about 30mm.
Building a vacuum chamber is a must if you want more quality.
Hey WIll, just wondering what is the progress on the mechanical part of this project? I am really keen to make it was just wondering when that would be coming out. Waiting for the second one (the middle version). Love what you do man keep it up
You should try a pressure pot for your resin. There's a channel (Rybonator) that does a lot of resin dice and he has a video about why a pressure pot is better to use than a vacuum chamber. These are fantastic, I'd just love to see those bubbles fixed up. :)
lot of bubbles in the iris of the eye. Alternatively, you can use fimo clay in the iris and and make the grooves of the iris with an exacto knife. then you can paint it then put the resin over it. you don't need to put the clay in the oven.
10:57 Good thing all my practice rubbing it out will help
Uh, yeah, I just remembered I gotta get the hell outta here.
instead of superglue, you can use an acrylic matte medium (liquitex) to "glue" capillaries to the bulb.
they look very good but do they move?
Abyss Creations / Realdoll should
hire or buy those eyes from you
I would use UV resin. You have complete control over any air bubbles that are there before you uv it to cured.
Can we build some option for camera aperture assuming the eyes to see the surrounding through a camera sensor?
Just wondering, since you are using ABS, why not use Acetone for vapor smoothing? just curious if you considered it over sanding the eyes?
That's a really good idea actually, I'll have to try that next time I make some 👍
Using Acetone will smooth it to the point that it’ll look melted and gloopy. Why not print them on a resin printer like the Elegoo Mars and then use translucent resin? It will be incredibly smooth right away.
Don´t leave it to long in the acetone vapor it yould deform your part. It happend to my Yoda bust his ears where hanging down. XD
Hey thanks for sharing these techniques. I'm getting a resin printer soon (K.S. should be delivering in december). I'm wondering how this translates to using resin.
This is so cool! Why didn't I think of it before? Just one thing. My 3D software tells me these eyes are 32mm. Wouldn't realistic human eyes be closer to 28mm? Even with the sanding they won't get that smaller. I guess one can scale everything down a little.