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The mission-critical eyes

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The mission-critical eyes

All right, friends, here we are back inside the 'Avatar' composition, and as you may recall, we're starting with this base photograph of an everyday average human girl captured here on earth, by Jason Stead to the Fotolia Image Library. And over the course of 22 layers, we're building up this fantastic composition of this Na'vi creature from another world. And we're now poised to create the eyes, more specifically the irises and the pupils right here. We don't have much to work with in the first place. If I Alt+Click or Option+Click on this eyeball to turn off all the other layers, you can see that her original irises are quite small, we only have half irises to work with really, because they're cut off by the eye at top here. And the pupils are dinky, presumably because this is a bright day and the sunlight is coming into our eyes. But our 'Avatar' creature is not built that way at all. The Na'vi have huge eyes, as you can see, these big old, sort of greenish, golden eyes with these…

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