Flattened, Squashed or Otherwise Nonspherical Eyes
Many more stylized or cartoonish characters will require eyes that, due to the design of the character, cannot be spherical. Figure 10.40 shows a fish character with eyes that are obviously nonspherical. In this example, there is no way to rotate the eye around the X-axis without having it protrude horribly from the character. The challenge is to create an object for the eye that can somehow rotate within an ellipsoid eye socket.
Unfortunately, there is no such object. You can fake it, though, with the steps previously presented ...
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