Though on the end of stalks, Kris' eyes are far simpler - technically speaking - than Carl's. Essentially, the stalks are built in the same way Carl's antennae were made, and a pair of eyeballs thrown into the end.
The start should be very familiar by now. Punch a few holes into the top of Kris' head. Because the stalks are thicker than Carl's, I'm not able to get away with simple square holes this time. In the same way the mouth was made: Diagonals were cut into the mesh to create more of a circular gap.
The stalks were then pulled out of the mesh to just under the height of the body (The eyeballs were going to add to the height)
The next stage was to add more connections between the stalks, in order to allow them to bend properly when the bones were added. Selecting the length-way edges of the stalks, the 'Connect' tool was employed to add around 15 new edges, evenly spaced out along the mesh. This was a lot easier than trying to extrude the stalks 15 times!
The eyeballs were simply a pair of spheres with smaller, flatter spheres acting as the pupils.
The spheres that made the eyeballs were then cloned and made slightly larger, in order to create the eyelids. They were also hit with the 'hemisphere' option to reduce them to around 50% of their original shape (A half-sphere, surprisingly enough!), to signify the eyelids fully open. (It would be easier to pull the vertices down over the eyes, to create blinking, rather than starting with closed eyes and trying to push them back). Then, in the same way that the antennae heads were attached to the stalks, the eyelids had a small hole cut into them, and subsequently attached to the ends of the stalks.
And there's Kris with his eyes!
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