Settings for Eye angles

Submitted by Alex on 01/26/2003. ( robiki@mail.ru ) 80.237.41.12

I am looking for eyes table settings for mammals and birds!
Please, give me hint, where I can find this tables.
Thanks to all!

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Alex, I have to ask "WHY/"

This response submitted by George on 01/26/2003. ( georoof@aol.com ) 152.163.188.231

I know there are purists who compete who insist that all the eyes have to be set at a particular "angle" to be correct. My comment is BS! Look in a mirror and then compare what you see with your best friend. Barbra Streisand sure shoots hell out of that theory in humans. MOST forms have preset sockets that conform with what the human eye will accept as a "standard" and most like the cats eyes tilted in at the top a few degrees, but stand in front of your mount, find a focal point you want the animal to appear to be watching and then set the eyes accordingly. Brian Harness' bobcat pedestal at the Nationals last year is a perfect example. I maintain that there's no such thing as "one size fits all" eye angles.

Now, I'll just wait to get blasted.


I'm with George

This response submitted by Superpig on 01/26/2003. ( ) 152.163.188.231

the eye angle does vary from animal to animal as well as from form to form. I used to just trust in the form and left it at that since it said positive eye set. But some deer or sheep I mounted just didn't look quite right doing this even though the angle and cant was correct. So now I carve every eyesocket out, tilt some a little more, some a little less . All depending on the individual animal I am working on at that particular time. Don't get set into one way of doing it. In taxidermy you need to be flexible. Use reference photos or actual live specimen to base your decision on and don't overdue the charts.


Birds have biocular and monoocular eyes.

This response submitted by John C on 01/26/2003. ( ) 64.216.172.22

Over the years many of my bird mounts have been deducted point because of the eyes.

While mammals must use both eyes to have 3-d vision, dont believe this just get a aya patch and try driving through a parking lot.

But fish and birds can change the angle of just one eye. Watch the ducks they will cock the head sideways and lok at you wit one eye.

Parrots, Cocatoos, are your easy reference for birds.

For your mammal angles look to small domestic pointed nose dogs for your fox and coyotes.

Look at the house cats, they are close enough for your reference.

While looking you will notice many of the eye lashes dont come down over the eyes, in fact they stick up and away from the eye.

I have a talk with someone over this, we agreed many judges have bot watched BOBCATS, after first noticing this I have watched other species and the meats eaters generally don have lases that cover the eye.


I'm on George's team on this one.

This response submitted by Glen Conley on 01/26/2003. ( g.conley@verizon.net ) 67.241.79.48

Cant and angle will be determined by each individual animal's skull shape.


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