When Adam visited Weta Workshop early last year, he stopped by their 3D printing lab to check out their research and experiments in 3D printing full-color eyeballs for exhibition figures and effects work. Weta Workshop's Richard Taylor and 3D artist Tor Robinson show Adam examples of anatomically accurate printed eyeballs that push the limits of high tech fabrication!
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Read more about Tor's 3D printed eye projects at Weta Workshop: www.wetaworkshop.com/news/weta-workshop-sets-its-sights-on-giant-human-eyes/ facebook.com/WetaWorkshop/posts/10157095378432303 facebook.com/WetaWorkshop/posts/10157097006382303
I wonder if she made Alita's eyes for the statue they had at the premiere.
Hey Adam, I love your videos and I might have a challenge for you if you're up for it. Since you are really good at making spaces I was wondering if you could make a replica of an SK-1 soviet cosmonaut space suit.
I wonder if her advances in 3d printing could have a really valuable educational purpose too. She could do a lot with this talent.
Very cool, be honest I thought I canceled my subscription months ago. It got irritating in member chat, I always got passed over to matter what, so why pay for a channel subscription.
Apologies, Jon. We recognize your name from the live chats. Sometimes if Adam can't think of an answer, or a good answer, he'll skip a question. Thank you for the support you gave us for the previous months.
*person who has watched all of the behind the scenes extras on the “Lord of the Rings” discs* “Richard Taylor! There he is - my man!”
those eye opening look like mouths
I see yarrrr
As seen in the corridor digital building and WETA all VFX studios have a weapons gallery that could get you swatted by the FBI.
wow
Subtitulo en español
Creeeepy
why are adam's fingers so dirty... eeeek
@0:49 watch the eye behind the skin at the bottom... looks like it's following you
She needs to do a Zeiss Cybereye.
Weta Workshop never stops amazing me!
Looks so awesome Tor is so talented :0 It did kind of seem like Richard kept cutting off Tor and explaining stuff for her tho :/
WOW!
3d modeling eyes for game characters is remarkably similar to the approach used here. Literally every point they made about colors, intensities, limbus and topology apply to 3d character modeling too. Brilliant stuff.
It’s a Stratasys inkjet printer. Why didn’t they just mention that? “Voxel” prining is useless jargon. All 3D inkjet printers work that way, and voxel is an MRI term, not a standard 3D-printing term.
Hey Adam, did you get a chance to visit with JFA while you were at wetta? You hinted at another video about a year ago
That was supposed to be “Weta”
Someone needs to go back and watch the glow in the dark how snot spreads the flu.
Weta i love this place their digitigrade legs are amazing
Adam Is it possible to print out the eye prestizes for people who don't have one of the eyes???? Scan good eye and print out the copy??? Add light sensing micro chip for iris to widen and shrink????
👍🙂👍
I think Adam Savage is the only person who can get away with nasty, dirty fingernails. In his case it is an indication of authenticity. Also, where is the process of them making these? I want to see it in action! Maybe it's a company secret...I still want to see it.
Thank you so much for making this video. Many years ago, I made acrylic eyes with the Madame Tussaud's Studio in London. Technology has come on such a long way. We would have to hand paint the striations to build up depth in many layers. The edge between the sclera and iris was made by quite a lot of grinding down and sanding before the next clear level. I can see 3D printing is the way forward in eye making, not only for accuracy but for the time it takes to make a pair. Great studio work
Can I buy an eye and lid cover from you? Human size?
Adam, I was wondering if you or any of the lovely people at Weta have any examples of or demonstrations of the eyeballs in use or of their applications. I loved seeing the video, but I want to understand why the accuracy is so important by seeing how they've been used in the past.
"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." - Charles Darwin
Giant Eyes - A lot of googling. Hah!
Esa chica es una maga en su trabajo
"This is a doctor's level of knowledge" "It was a lot of, like, googling"
"I don't know such stuff! I just do eyes!"
Nothing betta than free work. I mean internship.
Wow, i am so happy Weta is working with the next generation of folks. They where the kids of yesterday who where not afraid to try new things. She is amazing and i am so happy my favorite fx team is doing things like this. Oh i am gushing as a fan.
I love the use of inside out esun pla boxes as product packaging.
The uncanny valley for me is that I attended the same university she did. That's uncanny. I never hear about places that are relevant to *me*, from *Adam Savage*. Any comment on coronavirus in NZ?
TronXY!? I'm shocked. It's not bad, just surprising.
Chu.... if only you could see what I have seen with your eyes....
I need some of these for my VR headset!
Adam won't even clean up his fingernails when he's visiting another shop, knowing his hands will be on closeups. I bet he's the kind of guy that has horrible B.O. but nobody will tell him.
Now they just need to figure out how to make the iris “float” when the eye moves.
Richard will always have a special place in my heart for taking me through hours and hours of LOTR material Edited to add: On the DVDs and Blu-Rays that is. Not in person.
Richard Taylor hasn’t aged in 20 years
Meanwhile we over here with our eye consisting of a white circle and a black dot lol
That's really innovative use of the fleshlight for the eyeball surround too ...
"I just do eyes.." -Weta Workshop artist, probably.
8:47
Watching Richard in the extended trilogy from LOTR will always be my favorite he’s always been passionate about every word he says
11:32 adam gently sets down the goat eye other guy tosses it into the box with a loud "CLACK!"
I wear a prosthetic eye. Could you make a prosthetic eye that would house a powerful 1 watt + burning laser diode? I want to be superman.
you can use that eye socket for something else too...
Seeing both Adam and Richard be like kids that know nothing next to Tor and both just fully showing that and not having even an hint of elitism because of their work history etc is amazing. A person as young as Tor just blowing them out of the water is fucking awesome!
I love how Richard and Adam both have filthy fingers. Presumably from rummaging around WETA all day.
i managed a Stratasys machine and they are the gold standard in 3d printing, amazing work
Smart people should breed
I could watch this for HOURS! Truly phenomenal work Tor!
Thanks, Adam and Weta! After having watched so many hours of LOTR behind-the-scenes footage with RICH-ud TAY-luh (gotta love that distinctive voice and crisp Kiwi accent!), I feel like I've been missing out on his practical effects updates/tutelage since. So awesome that Weta is putting so much R&D into these physical eyeballs, when most productions would just go CG nowadays. The hills and valleys of the iris look especially amazing on the giant-size eyeballs. Great job, Tor; great to see this cross-generational collaboration at Weta creating state-of-the-art versions of traditional effects.
this is phenomenal
0:50 It looks like a The Residents video David Bowie's video "Lazarus" - they could have devoted a bit more time to making the eyes. I'm surprised they didn't talk to ocular prosthetic manufacturers.They have been making realistic eyes for decades.
Centuries, actually. And the time-honored glass eyes are still better than the plastics, in my opinion. AND they're actually faster to make! The bulk of the time needed when a new one is made, is for the cooling down of the glass. Sloooow cooling; don't want any cracks in there, please.
Tor is going to become a master at the leading edge of these forms of special effects - I can see the day where surgeons will come to her for "false eyes" for people who have actually lost an eye. She's on the border of absolute greatness in her field.
So why are they made at 2.4 scale? Odd... Are the models in movies not 1:1 ?
Tor? I thought she was the Mona Lisa?
Amazingly talented young lady. Fantastic final product.
@7:17 - I wonder what vicious process led to that blackened fingernail? Is that paint or did you smash it with a hammer?
She is adorable and brilliant.
these look amazing!
A perfect example on how Weta is cultivating genius by investing in young makers. By bringing people into the shop while they are in their professionally embryonic stage, they are exponentially advancing the methodology of creating. A truly wonderful company.
I need a new ocularists in a bad way. And I'd love to find one using this tech. I hope someone figures out a way to make this tech available broadly. I would have loved to grow up with a matching eye of such quality. They say the "eyes are the mirror of the soul". Imagine having one that is a misfit. Ocularistist aren't well known but they are well loved. :)
I want to put one in my stinker spread my cheeks and jump backwards at people screaming
Now Tor must make us a Realistic 3D printed Onion
I'm not an expert but those 3d prints kind of look like eyeballs
Optometrist here, for extra challenge, please also make eyes with visible arcus senilis along the inside of the limbus line. 😉
huge wetashop fan, ever bigger adam savage fan, and love all about eyes, how to draw them, tried to make some in resin by layers, TOTALLY ADORED this video!!! =D
I'm glad she picked out the hazel! As someone with hazel eyes I found GREAT appreciation in the details of the color mix that just made them stand out. What fantastic prints! Tor needs to write a couple papers, for sure!
Tor is like a female Hannibal Chew, “I just do eyes”.
Tor is going to have an incredible career. She in very talented, those eyes are amazing.
Welcome to the NZ fam adam
Blade Runner, anyone?
Eye Eye Capt !
Weta is always on another level
Got to meet and talk to Richard Taylor when I was 16. The guy is a true gentleman. He took an hour out of his hectic day to meet with me and talk about LOTR. It was one of the loveliest moments of my life. Thank you Richard 👍
The girl deserves a price for that achievement! Really, I mean it!
This is so amazingly beautiful, I Immediately wished I was there so I could tell her how awesome I think these prints are. She has done something very very special with this project, and I can't imagine that the results of her experimentations won't reach out and expand into many other use-cases. That 3D feathering man, it's astounding
Anyone else notice the Cube 2 picture behind Adam? I wonder what that’s about
Next level of cringe on that busted nails... take care...
this would change prosthetic eyes forever. PLEASE make that happen
Was Adam and Richard digging in the garden before looking at these eyes? lol. Their hands look like what mine look like after gardening or painting models.
Adam always asks the right questions
For anyone curious, this is done on a “material jetting” 3d printer (Stratasys J750) it’s a printer that has been developed by Stratasys to print human anatomy models…
Most impressive.
white white white.... everywhere on youtube see whites bragging how hard working they are... as if they did all this by themselves... lovely
12:41 pun intended?
Right now the coolest things are made with 3D printers. 3D here 3D printer there, more cheap ones on ebay, amazon or kickstarter. Everybody should have gotten at least in contact with one by now. You should really start getting into some CAD now(!) otherwise the ship has sailed. Give it some more years for the other patents (eg. CLIP by carbon) to expire and spare parts are created at home more efficiently, not sent by the manufacturer. Hold that thought.
Adam, scrub those fingernails man!
filthy fingers and nails on a girls hard work :S And dont get me started on the "wheres your mask?"
WETA is based in New Zealand and we don’t need masks as we don’t have community transmission of COVID-19.
Unbelievable fidelity and finishing.
The thing that stood out for me in this video (apart from the AMAZING work) was Richards obvious and almost fatherly pride in Tor and her abilities.
until they figure out how to consistently replace peoples real eyes in post and continue to use contact lenses that will remain an disengaging experience for me because i can _always_ clearly tell when someone is wearing a colored contact as an artist i know eyes, spend a few decades being frustrated by them and youll understand completely what the guy is saying and contacts, no matter how beautifully crafted, are a poor covering that fakes detail at the expense of immersion ... G'kar from B5 for example or Drax from GotG ... any time they need a full eye change and go the contact route im taken out of the experience because it stands out so badly to me
Would have been cool to get a glimpse at the software sculpting side of this
Very cool! Lots of respect from Belgium!!!