Deep red yarn (I got this at a local second hand shop for $0.50) 18 millimeter Plastic "googly" eyes (got a pack of them from same craft shop for $1.49) Crystal clear craft glue (I found this at a local craft shop for $3.49) Unwaxed dental floss (This I had, but again you could pick some up at a dollar store) Cheap hobby paint brushes (found at same Dollar store) Cheap acrylic paint (This I found at one of the local Dollar Stores for, you guessed it a dollar.) One bottle of "high dollar" ($3.98) White, high solids acrylic nail polish often used for blending and filling. Black (if they don't have a flat black you'll have to scrape off the shine) Semi opaque pearlescent with a slight yellow tint (the brand I got calls it melon) Cheap acrylic nail polish (got this at same supply store for $0.99 a bottle) 1 inch or 25 mm "Bolo" style hair bows (I found mine at a local beauty supply store for a dollar a pack) If I get some more of the bases and some more acrylic paint, I could drive that cost down even further since I have enough of everything else to make another 20 pairs or so.Īlthough I tried several different routes these are the items which I used which turned out working best for the least money. If I did the math correctly it has currently cost about 10 dollars a pair for the eyes and I still have enough supplies to make 4 more pairs without paying any more. What follows is the path which led me to what I feel was a satisfactory end result, especially considering the cash outlay. So, I decided to do the searching for all of us and bring special effect eyes within reach of the poor college student, the underemployed budding indy filmmaker, the person who is sick of their next door neighbor always having cooler (is that a word?) Halloween decorations. I got to thinking, if I'm in this situation then there are probably a lot of other people who might be too. Or maybe if your charging a hundred bucks for your set of molds to make acrylic eyes then yeah maybe. OMG! I suppose if you make 80K+ a year then $45 to make a set of eyes may seem cheap. I got online and looked for a really cheap way to make my own special effect eyes. Okay, now the problem My budget is severely limited. If the eyes don't look real that's pretty much it. One motivation for this is that I want to get into animatronics. One of the items that I always wanted to make was the super realistic eyeballs you see in horror films. My dream job would be a special effects engineer. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.I've always been really into special effects. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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