Googly eyes 👀
Added 2025-05-30 14:41:18 +0000 UTCHi everyone 👋
I added versions with googly eyes for the pepper 🌶️, the carrot 🥕 and the cucumber 🥒
The other day I got an assortment of these eyes. They're not hard to find on marketplaces if you search for 'googly eyes' or 'wiggle eyes'. I had five sizes available (5, 7, 10, 12, and 15mm).
For my designs, the 7mm diameter works perfectly, but you can also use 5mm, 10mm or 12mm—just scale the design in the slicer to 71% (for 5mm), 136% (for 10mm) or 160% (for 12mm) accordingly.
The eye with the smallest diameter (5mm) has a spherical pupil inside, while the others have a flat circle.
These eyes have an adhesive backing, but they don’t stick well to plastic, so it’s easier to glue them on together with the protective backing 💧.
This is not just an alternative if you don’t have an AMS but also just a fun version—I don’t know how to make such transparent eyes on a regular FDM printer.
As for downsides, these eyes aren’t extremely fragile, but if you press hard enough with your finger, you can dent and ruin them. You could probably heat the dented surface to smooth it out, but I haven’t tried it since I print in PLA, and there’s no point—this plastic softens when heated.
With these eyes, it's hard to make a half-closed eyelid, so all the characters have the same expression. The expression of the eyebrows and mouth helps preserve some emotion.
These additional designs are available to my patrons, you'll see the files with names like ...(for googly).stl.
Everything is located in the folder /3dmodels/Keychains/...
Quick links:
🥕 Flexible Baby Carrot Keychain
