Gallery: The Hollywood FX Master Who Painted Angelina Jolie's Eyeballs
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*District 9* (2009) To contrast with Sharlto Copley’s blue eyes as his character slowly took on alien characteristics, Patterson applied yellow paint to a scleral lens—a large lens fitting over the white of the eye. The result is a swollen, buglike look.
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*The Walking Dead* (2010- ) Zombie eyes mean larger, cloudier canvases. “I’m into making something look rotten,” Patterson says. “I have fun with them.”
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*Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters* (2013) For Famke Janssen’s creepy shape-shifting witch in this action-horror romp, Patterson created a hyper-stylistic “melted” effect to echo the transformations.
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*The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2 )* (2011, 2012 The perfect vampire eye depends on the type of vampire. The Volturi’s onscreen look involved five to seven shades of red, cool tones, and flecks of yellow.
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*Maleficent* (2014) To offset the titular character’s dark attire and hint at the brittleness within her, Patterson tried to evoke the colors in a geode: at least four blues, three greens, two oranges, and one pink.
