Video: See how to create a virtual eye

YOUR avatar’s eyes could soon be the windows to your virtual soul with the development of a new animation technique that creates lifelike eyes in minutes.

To create a more realistic model of the eye, Guillaume Francois from the University of Rennes 1 in France took two identical digital photographs of an eye. From one of the photographs, he used software to remove the effect of the cornea, the transparent layer on top of the iris, on the light entering the eye. The software then used the image of the eye …