The Official Color & Size of YODA Eyes Thread

Were is a good place to pick up a 28MM budget version eye for my Icons Yoda ?





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Question: If an iris is a certain diameter, can the diameter of the eyeball be figured from that? Like a percentage greater? Is there a science to this? a formula?

IF a human iris is ___mm in diameter THEN the human eyeball is ___mm in diameter

Like getting what we don't know (eyeball dia.) from what we do know (iris dia.)

So could someone please explain how these numbers of 28mm, 30mm, 34mm, etc. came to be settled upon, along with their corresponding iris diameters?
 
Hi,

The eye diameter 30mm was settled upon because Nick Masley told me that was the eye size ;)

Heres the 5th eye example I've created...



Cyb.
 
Phil, you had it but now I think you're moving away from it.
I thought option B was just about perfect, maybe somewhere between B and D.


If I had to choose Between B and D, I suppose I'd go with D
I don't like this new version though.
 
I'm of the opposite opinion - I think the new version matches the screengrabs very well.
 
I like your original D design Phil, although it seems the original eyes have some goldy-green highlights in them. Would it be possible to add some of that into a design? (if it's not just a lighting effect).


Also the extreme closeup looks like it has a more obvious brown halo around the pupil, although the eyes in the screenshot under your A-D designs in post 44 don't seem to show this, which is odd.


I don't know how glass eyes are made but can they be produced identically time after time, or will each eye's colour and patterning differ slightly from the last?



Jeremy
 
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It's obvious this sample most closely matches the eye in the Stu photo. Yet some of you are still opting for the darker/no brown or very little brown/no green-gold highlights/almost totally green eye. Why? Please explain.
 
The color in that shot is so out of whack.
Yoda's skin is practically yellow. Once you correct the color of the skin to be more green like the film puppet, most of the brown/gold tones in the eye disappear.
The screen cap from ESB is by far the best color ref we have to go by.
 
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The eye diameter 30mm was settled upon because Nick Masley told me that was the eye size ;)
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Okay, well that settles that.
 
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The color in that shot is so out of whack.
Yoda's skin is practically yellow. Once you correct the color of the skin to be more green like the film puppet, most of the brown/gold tones in the eye disappear.
The screen cap from ESB is by far the best color ref we have to go by.
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TESB was supposed to have aired today on HBOHD. I'm hoping someone can get us a nice hi-res screencap.
 
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Tom, I sent a e-mail to this guy last Friday, haven't heard back. Also checked eBay and there are a lot of autographed Frank Oz photos but no current auctions for this particular photo. If I can't obtain the photo, could you PLEASE scan yours in hi-res and post a link to the image in this thread?

Thanks.
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Hey man,

The guy sent the photos with a nice letter explaining that he was the photographer and kindly requesting that they not be scanned. I feel the photo I posted is a pretty good start and further I feel it's pretty accurate. I was careful to color correct before posting and even when tweaked further by Cyb, the image still shows the brown center.

Check the SW to Indiana Jones book as well. Dunno if those eyes are original or not but there's a big pic of Yoda in there and the eyes have the same look. Definitely some brown around the center.

Tom
 
I hope I didn't give the wrong idea.
I agree with the brown around the center, like in example D.
I just don't think the entire iris is dominantly brownish.
 
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I feel the photo I posted is a pretty good start and further I feel it's pretty accurate.
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It just looks a little skewed as if it was a photo (taken at an angle) of another photo. Did you use a camera then? If so, would macro mode help? I just wish it hadn't turned out so blurry. I mean this is like discerning details in a UFO photo. You're trying to find something but everything important is all blurred to hell.
 
Here's another pic I found on my HD, not sure of the source or accuracy, just throwing it out there...

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Are the MoM Yoda's eye's screen used or replacements? I know a lot of teh puppet has been 'rennovated' and is therefore innacurate..the eyes on this shot almost look hand-painted, wheras we know the su came from C&N:

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2372/yoda005bv8.jpg
 
I feel we should concentrate fully on screen images and that alone if we are going to end up with the right results. Otherwise we do have a few problems to deal with.

(1) Colour
(2) Size
(3) Lighting
(4) Image correction
(5) Design


I'm beginning to think we are never going to be singing from the same hym sheet, now lol.

These are my opinions...and not intended to be snobby ;)

(1) None of the images we have seen thus far are giving us a totally clear view.
(2) The exhibition eyes are totally wrong and not Cantor + Nissels work
(3) We should all watch our DVDs tonight and turn the brightness up as most of the shots are fairly dark. Also with top lighting the lids cast shadows over the iris making them appear darker than they actually are.
(4) The freeborn pics are taken with flash photography therefore the eyes are brighter looking than normal so its a tough decision to make on the colours and maybe C+N s expertise will be a help.

Cheers

Cyb.
 
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