Let’s Build: Blinking Puppet Eyes (Part 1)

[@williamwoodard7172]

Hey Jack I watched your video about making eyes can you make a part 2

[@GeahkBurchill]

I am hoping to. It would have been here a long time ago but some of the footage is on a hard drive that stopped reading properly. I’ve been planning on sending it out to get recovered. As soon as I restore all the footage I can finish editing this series.

[@BrianPletcher1]

@@GeahkBurchill I'd love to see the rest of it as well! Good luck with the file recovery!

[@Capryca]

Yes please! Ready for the next video

[@OliseForel]

Please continue the series. This is pure gold!

[@probablyaxenomorph5375]

This is awesome! I also appreciate you mentioning the fact that a lot of art and art materials are single-use and disposable. Surprisingly I haven't heard many artists talk about it, but it's something I think about with every project I work on, and I can't help but feel a little guilty sometimes. That said, it's good to see another artist who's so dedicated to reusing what they can and minimizing waste :)

[@puppetville-bethobrien4139]

This is awesome. Seen the process before, but now that you told me not only how long it takes and where to get everything to Make the new eyes. Not just the molds, I'm convinced. I need to start making my own. I'm spending a fortune in time, shipping and work around for eyes that cost more, aren't what I really want, but I cannot get or cannot get any more. I always save one blank or if left and right eye is different, a pair. Can't wait to learn about the mech

[@LocalForecast]

Please make a part two!! I was thinking "this better not be another 3D printed video" And I saw the rig. Looks awesome

[@russfunk7615]

Just a little tip for free hand silicone brushing like the teeth on your extra, first brush the teeth lightly, then with a cotton ball rolled open, so it's thin. Cut a piece of cotton slightly larger than your brushed area, Soak up whats left in in the cup with the cotton piece you've prepared and place it onto the area you've brushed. The matting gives more stability without too much silicone leaking off your work piece. Love your tutorial, very clear to understand.

[@creativemindz1766]

Seriously loved that intro

[@sarahpham3096]

I love your video I love your work! Please make a part two! I’m trying to make a YODA puppet for my Star Wars wedding and I need your help!!!! Thank you for such a wonderful video, you make me feel like it’s possible 🫶

[@chickfamilyink]

Geahk is Back! I would love to see your methods of storing and keeping track of where everything is when you aren't using it.

[@seaspenders]

I'm currently building my own puppet rig. I'd love to see a Part 2 as you have the nicest rig I've seen.

[@namelesspersonakaneonwaffles]

Dude that's the sickest intro

[@bethanytemplin4599]

Looking forward to the rest of this tutorial. Stumbled across you while trying to figure out puppet eyes. Love your work and your personality

[@GeahkBurchill]

Bethany Templin it’s coming soon! I’ve had a couple other videos related to my marionette building class coming first but Part two is on the docket next. Then I’ll be following up with the other seven parts in short order.

[@bethanytemplin4599]

@@GeahkBurchill no rush, but I am excited to know they are coming soon! In the mean time I am really enjoying all of your other content.

[@GeahkBurchill]

Bethany Templin there will be a minimum of two more videos this month and I expect the next part in this series to be in the first week of August.

[@bethanytemplin4599]

@@GeahkBurchill I will be awaiting them with baited breath. You are awesome! Thank you for sharing your knowledge through your videos

[@mrtrickay7111]

Damn we need the rest of this series. 😭

[@CabethCline]

I am a recycle type artist. Loved this video. Ty❤

[@maryzimerlaakafunschoolers1249]

I watched this with my 10 year old who wants to build her own ventriloquist doll. Thank you

[@ClockworkWyrm]

If you're looking into making silicone molds take a look at some of the videos here that utilize legos to build the frames rather than hot gluing styrene. Like this one but you can find others: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ7Qk2iAlruUlZI

[@lorranearagao3919]

Amazing work! Hope you still get to up load the rest of the videos. Can’t wait to see!

[@gordinirojo]

Hey Jack! If after two years you're not planning on make a second part, at least change the name of it to "making mold of balls", as it was 20 minutes of wasted time. Your mechanisme looks dope, dough.

[@oooshiney1356]

I'm looking forward to the rest if the tutorial, this is the first tutorial that looks exactly what I need to do for my project I just didn't know where to start. When will there be a next part 2 this series?

[@Justsomeothers]

I love the video. I saw another video about making eyes, but it would only let the eyes move. It wouldn’t let them blink though, but this one can do both. I’ll make sure to try this When I’m making a puppet.

[@treesoftheworld9402]

Thanks pal, you saved my puppet show!

[@jordanezell5132]

Could you please try to make a spring loaded blinking mech for a soft hand puppet next?

[@carinahales7641]

Yay, Geahk! Looking good!

[@mr.dan7144]

You make a good teacher.

[@carinahales7641]

What is the brand of hot glue stick you use? I usually avoid hot glue like the plague, but I use zote foam and it sounds interesting.

[@GeahkBurchill]

Here’s a link. I usually get 5/16” in a 5lb box. For my purposes I always use black brown or white but you can see a wide variety of colors. These are still low temp though, so any project you’re doing that needs to survive above 145°f will likely fall apart. I avoid building enclosed mascot heads from zote that I expect will be out in the sun, or left in a hot car. For most other zote projects, this is the BEST glue there is! glu-stix-online.com/collections/glue-sticks/products/colored-hot-melt-glue-sticks?variant=7854515290165

[@philywilly1262]

Fiery the angels fell burning with the fires of orc

[@darianromero3532]

I’m starting a puppet project and this really helped me. I’m trying to build chamberlain from Jim Henson’s “The Dark Crystal” and I’m coming into some problems. Any tips on realism in the eyes of a puppet?

[@GeahkBurchill]

Yes, I’ll be talking about that in the next video in this series, but I cover a bit of it in this one. The most important thing is that the center of the pupil be deep and dark. Having the iris be concaved, and highly detailed it also helpful. Lots of color variation and layering of the paint makes it appear real. And, finally, a very glossy surface to the final eye is critical.

[@darianromero3532]

Geahk Burchill Thank you so much! Can’t wait for your next video

[@ConTiteres]

I love this. Thanks for share.

[@sidneikovacs5499]

Maravilhoso DIVINO trabalho 🙏🏿🙏🏿👋👋👋

[@WEOWNTHESKIES]

Dope vid

[@GeahkBurchill]

Thanks dawg.

[@Arte.produçao]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKa8e6eBYtiNm8k Mecanismo

[@elnazmiabinezhad5014]

This is a great tutorial! Awesome!! Thanks!

[@GeahkBurchill]

I’m glad it was helpful to you! Someday I’ll finish editing the other parts! I’ve been so busy and I’m such a slow editor but at least I have the mold making part explained.

[@markdmaker3173]

Very cool👍🏼

[@mikepalma3341]

Can you show me how you do your side to side moving eyes? Thank you

[@GeahkBurchill]

Keep watching the series! Your question will be answered later on! This series will be about 9 parts and I believe I will get to the eye-tracking mech in part 5 or 6.

[@mikepalma3341]

@@GeahkBurchill great! Thank you so much. Love what you are doing!

[@johnkoester7795]

Have you thought about making a voice box for a woody doll? Just wondering

[@GeahkBurchill]

John Koester, no, I hadn’t considered it. I did take apart dolls as a kid as was floored when I discovered a tiny plastic record player inside. That has always stuck with me and it might be interesting to build a miniature brass record player at some point as an experiment.

[@patrickcaravaggio8880]

How much would it cost for you to make one eyeball? That moves cause I was thinking about making the spellbook from hocus pocus !!!!!

[@GeahkBurchill]

Last June I fell and broke my leg and I’ve been recovering ever since. I get out of the rehabilitation facility in about two weeks and maybe I can begin working in my shop again. If you’re not in a huge hurry, feel free to contact me through my website www.geahk.art

[@michaelcamilleri9997]

Hi, I’m looking for the 8 other parts to this… did they get made?

[@GeahkBurchill]

Unfortunately, the external hard drive where I kept the footage for the rest of this series, failed. At the time it was simply a frustration and I only had a few hundred subscribers, so I didn’t deal with trying to recover the footage. Since then, this video has blown up. It’s clear people want me to finish this series. I get contacted almost daily. So, I will finish it, or remake the series from scratch.

[@eliasb8]

6:34 Would you mind posting a link to the polyethylene based hot glue that you use? I googled around but didn't find anything...

[@GeahkBurchill]

This is where I get them: glu-stix-online.com/collections/glue-sticks/products/colored-hot-melt-glue-sticks?variant=7854515290165

[@eliasb8]

@@GeahkBurchill, thank you for the quick response! Made in the USA! Even better! :)

[@SolomonTrejo-l1z]

How much would you sell them for if you sold them? just curious.

[@GeahkBurchill]

@@SolomonTrejo-l1z I honestly don’t know. I made that pair of eyes on commission for $300 plus shipping, and it was a lot more work than I charged for, but I don’t think people will pay that much on average so I’d have to figure out a more efficient way to make them.

[@SolomonTrejo-l1z]

@@GeahkBurchill Alright, thanks for the demonstration! It would be really helpful if you could continue the series.

[@GeahkBurchill]

@ I’m gonna have to start from scratch. The hard drive with footage for parts 2, 3 & 4 is corrupted or won’t read. I can’t finish editing it.

[@SolomonTrejo-l1z]

@@GeahkBurchill Okay I see, Thanks anyway.

[@williammontenegrochamorro4191]

Busco un mecanismo de ojos, menpuede informar. Gracias

[@williammontenegrochamorro4191]

Quiero comprar, como hago. Gracias..

[@Ziggy_stardust124]

Is their going to be a part two?

[@Xanniebyte]

Me thinking what the heck I wanted in to but it’s great I love it

[@GeahkBurchill]

Part 2 coming soon! I’m almost done editing!

[@любовькрушельницкая-ч6я]

Thank😮

[@donniehodges9857]

would these work on a vent figure?

[@GeahkBurchill]

Yes, they were made for a vent figure. I want to make a second part to this video but the hard drive the footage is on was corrupted. I’ve sent the hard drive to a recovery company.

[@Siuri420]

What about side eyes? Like in skeksis? I'm building everything from scratch

[@GeahkBurchill]

This is a REALLY good idea for a future video. There is an easy way to do this. I build built blinking eyes for Disney’s Finding Nemo which are like that. The way I solved it was to use an extension-spring from one eye to the other and then driving the center of the spring. The two eyes would then follow. Hard to explain in a comment but I will do a future video!

[@Siuri420]

@@GeahkBurchill awesome! Thank you.

[@kousukeren3971]

Part 2?

[@philywilly1262]

I think your videos are amazing. But that puppet face looks terrifying to me 😆

[@Mephiles_Rouge_Dark]

You said ppl hire you how much you sell these eyes for?

[@GeahkBurchill]

They take a lot of work. This set I sold for $300 USD, but I think, now that I’ve made some molds, I could do it faster for a little less expensive.

[@Mephiles_Rouge_Dark]

@@GeahkBurchill awesome how do you do payment for one PayPal or something?

[@GeahkBurchill]

Oto Kun yeah, Paypal works. If you’re interested, feel free to email me through my website: www.geahkburchilldesigns.com we can talk further by email or set up a call.

[@owlize9023]

17:42 Just drink it!!

[@barabaralund2913]

Where's part 2???

[@ncunico]

Wheres part 2 to 9....... ?

[@philywilly1262]

Do you ever worry that while making your eyes Rutger Haur might burst in and question you about Tyrell Corporation?

[@GeahkBurchill]

A big wet smootch before he pushes my eyes into their sockets? Maybe that’s why I haven’t uploaded part 2.

[@philywilly1262]

@@GeahkBurchill 😄

[@NovaNocturneArt]

Aw poodoo. No more videos have been posted

[@neonglogirl7]

no part two I guess?

[@GeahkBurchill]

The footage is on a hard drive that got corrupted. I’ve sent it to a company that recovers data but haven’t heard anything back in weeks. I may have to just remake the video from scratch.

[@johnkoester7795]

Have you seen plushtrap?

[@GeahkBurchill]

John Koester, nope. What’s that?

[@johnkoester7795]

Geahk Burchill try looking him up i’m going to make him those type of eyes but without using any rods Or something they’re just going to be able to move with either your fingers or your hand when their put into the head Try searching Google you don’t have to if you don’t want to

[@GeahkBurchill]

John Koester Oh, I see. From FNAF. I just didn’t know the character’s name. (Never played FNAF) there are very simple ways of making moving eyes that ventriloquist dummies use. I recommend finding vent pages on Facebook. Lots of people post looks inside their dummy’s heads.

[@GeahkBurchill]

John Koester Oh, I see. From FNAF. I just didn’t know the character’s name. (Never played FNAF) there are very simple ways of making moving eyes that ventriloquist dummies use. I recommend finding vent pages on Facebook. Lots of people post looks inside their dummy’s heads.

[@johnkoester7795]

Geahk Burchill It’s just going to be a stuffed doll with tiny hints of metal i’m also going to make the teeth of wood because in the fourth game there’s a mini game where There’s this kid that has a doll like him and says where is your plush toy? Mine is spring Bonnie my daddy says I have to be careful with him or I’ll pinch my fingers it’s a finger trap my daddy says

[@Denizen-Unknown]

You never made a part 2?

[@owlize9023]

idk

[@dr.happyfuntimes1214]

Part 2?