glowing eyes

Glowing eyes look like that to humans because pretty much every other vertebrate on the planet has a reflective layer stuck on the back of their retina called a tapetum lucidum which gives the photoreceptor cells another go at picking up incoming light. Great for night vision, bit blurry for daytime stuff.

Some instances of this are done by magic or sci fi, which means they can look like anything you like of course. Stuff the proper science, this is about special effects. Glowing sclera on their own look awful though: artists, don't do that please.

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The following tags are aliased to this tag: eye_glow, glow_eyes, glowing_eye (learn more).

This tag implicates glowing (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: eye_trail (learn more).

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