My camera is really struggling with the low light, but here is the glory space eye with a bit more obvious lighting. pic.twitter.com/r8vCj6JC18
— niklaas (@itsniklaas) April 14, 2020
Niklaas Charles, a “fabricator and creative technologist ” showed off this intriguing animatronic eye on twitter recently. While the mechanism is somewhat of what you’d think of as standard, the added flare of the fiber optic lights in the eye really make it pop!
Finished up the movement on my fibre-optic animatronic puppet eye. It's not perfect, but it gives me a lot to work with while developing the rest of the platform. pic.twitter.com/e6L0UCxeHn
— niklaas (@itsniklaas) April 13, 2020
The paint job he did on the eyeball makes it especially hard to pin down exactly what is going on. Such a neat effect.
