After doing my research, I got started doing my test version of the glowing eyes. Firstly, I did a close up recording of my eyes to make sure I could motion track my eyes (although I won’t be motion tracking, I just wanted to get a feel of what the animations I have created would look like and how possibly I could improve them on a example.)
Out of the 30 second clip I decided to use the last 5 second of the recording as I don’t blink and it would give me a better understanding and of the glowing eyes. Also it would not be too difficult to motion track them.
These were the results from my tests.
Iris eye tests
![simple red eyes and minimuslistic style](https://animation.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/files/2016/02/Screen-Shot-2016-02-24-at-23.32.36-300x130.png)
This was my first design. I wanted to do a basic, simple and minimalist look too it. However, I felt you could not really see the design and the animation was too simplistic and I could not really have much fun with it.
![Screen Shot 2016-02-24 at 23.33.06](https://animation.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/files/2016/02/Screen-Shot-2016-02-24-at-23.33.06-300x107.png)
After my first designs, I decided to modify them by adding more dashes and having a twist effect on them to make them look like they were moving faster and to add a style to them. I felt that the red was over powering and was a bit of an eyesore so I then decided to then try different colours to see what they would look like and which suited best.
I felt that the blue and green versions were very interesting and suited the aesthetic design more. With the blue version I felt it really stood out but was not an eye sore as much as the red. Also, the blue gives quite a futuristic look. With the green I felt it gave a much more subtle look but I do not know if that is because of the colour of my eyes as they are green. Nevertheless, I really liked the green as well as they too look quite futuristic.
After I did the Iris tests, I then decided to do a pupil eye test just to see what the results would be and see what potential I could get out of.
Pupil eye test
![Screen Shot 2016-02-24 at 23.34.24](https://animation.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/files/2016/02/Screen-Shot-2016-02-24-at-23.34.24-300x105.png)
With the first iteration of the red glowing eyes I thought try them out again just incase they looked different from the iris to the pupils. However I felt they looked no different and still felt that they looked very simplistic and still felt that the animation was restricting so I then reverted back to the newer version I created.
Personally I really liked the idea of the glowing eyes inside of the pupil as it stands out the most from how black the pupil and catches your attention.
After I made the test video I posted it up on the LSFM digibod page to get feedback on what people think about my designs. Here is the feedback that I received.
![Jon Holmes feedback](https://animation.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/files/2016/02/Screen-Shot-2016-02-25-at-21.48.05-300x87.png)
![Jacob Redfern's feedback](https://animation.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/files/2016/02/Screen-Shot-2016-02-25-at-21.48.46-300x165.png)
With their feedback I plan on to build upon my animations for the glowing eyes by having two different designs again and possibly different colours. Also, I will look into making them rotate backwards and forwards to give the impression that the glowing rings are focusing.
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