🧿 AutoEye Animator

AutoEye Animator is a powerful, easy-to-use Blender addon that brings your character's eyes to life — automatically.

Whether you're creating a film-quality close-up or stylized character animation, AutoEye Animator generates realistic, human-like eye motion in seconds. No need to manually keyframe every blink or glance — just set your rig, click, and animate.

✨ Key Features

• ✅ Automatic Eye Animation: Natural eye movement based on real-world oculomotor behavior — including micro-saccades, subtle shifts, fixational motion, and blinks.

• ✅ Supports Multiple Rig Types: Fully compatible with Rigify, Auto-Rig Pro, Faceit, Human Generator, or any custom rig that includes an eye master control bone.

• ✅ One-Click Workflow: Simply set the control bones and hit “Generate Animation.” No keyframes required.

• ✅ Blinking & White-Eye Motion: Automatic blinking (every 3–4 seconds), and optional upward eye-roll to simulate thinking states.

• ✅ Emotion-Driven Gaze (Advanced Mode): Add emotional intervals to change eye movement intensity, blinking rate, and even pupil dilation based on mood.

• ✅ Non-destructive: Works with your existing rig. No need to rebind or modify your model.

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🎥 How It Works

AutoEye Animator mimics how real human eyes move, based on neuroscience and animation principles:

• Fixational motion (tiny vibration when staring)

• Small saccades (subtle gaze adjustments)

• Microsaccades (localized scanning)

• Blinking

• Eye roll / scan-up

🧭 Quick Start Guide

Here's a step-by-step overview of how to use AutoEye Animator:

🔹 1. Basic Setup

1. Select your character and armature.

2. Choose your rig type (Rigify, Auto-Rig Pro, Faceit, Custom).

3. Set the eye master bone.

4. Define eye movement range (horizontal & vertical limits).

5. Select the eyeball mesh.

6. (Optional) Select a Pupil Shape Key for emotion-driven dilation.

7. Choose animation start and end frames.

8. Click Generate Eye Animation under "Basic Functions".

💡 Tip: Adjust "Intensity" to control how dynamic the eye movements are. Smaller movement ranges = more exaggerated motion.

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🔹 2. Blinking & Scan Mode

• Enable Scan Mode to make the eyes roll upward (e.g., when the character is thinking).

• Customize blink strength, speed, and frame offset.

• Blinking is random and natural — no extra rigging required.

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🔹 3. Multi-Character Workflow

Working in a scene with multiple characters?

• Use Save Character Settings to store rig setups.

• Use Clear Settings to start with a new character.

• Previously saved settings can be instantly restored.

🔹 4. Emotion-Driven Mode (Advanced)

AutoEye Animator supports emotional gaze shifts over time. Here's how:

1. Add a pupil shape key: Set value to 1, enter Edit Mode, resize pupil, set min value to -1.

2. In the Advanced Panel, define emotional intervals (start & end frames).

3. Choose to generate single or multiple emotion sections.

4. Adjust intensity and smooth blending between sections.

✨ Example: Sad eyes blink slower with less motion. Angry eyes shift more rapidly with narrower pupils.

🔹 5. Rig Compatibility Overview

🔧 Requirements

• Blender 3.6 or later

• A rigged character with separate eye control bones (e.g. eyeball_LookAt_master)

• (Optional) Face with ARKit shape keys

• (Optional) Shape keys for pupil control

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📌 Why Use AutoEye Animator?

Manual eye animation is one of the most tedious and subtle parts of character performance. With AutoEye Animator, you can:

• Save hours of keyframing

• Avoid uncanny, robotic eye motion

• Get studio-level eye performance in just a few clicks

💬 Support & Updates

Your purchase includes free updates and priority support. Found a bug? Want to suggest a feature? We're here to help.