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Twenty Animations to Dozens: Every Custom Digital Eye Came From a Builder Like You

Posted by Dmitriy · DmitriyCreations

When I started making Digital Eyes Kits, the library had 20 animations. That was it. Twenty looks I thought covered the basics — spooky, demonic, robotic, a few cartoonish ones for puppet builds.

Today there are dozens more. And almost every single one of them came from a customer asking me to build something specific for their project.

DEAD. PENNYWISE. GOAT. MEX. ROBOT. None of those existed when I started. They exist because someone reached out, told me what they were building, sent a reference, and asked if I could code an animation that matched. The answer was always yes — and the animation went into the library so the next builder could use it too.

This post is about the five kits I currently offer, who each one is built for, and how the custom work actually happens. If you have an idea, keep reading to the end — I’ll tell you exactly how to send it to me.

The Five Kits in the Lineup

Every Digital Eyes Kit on dmitriycreations.com is built around the same controller and the same animation library. What changes is the screen size, and that changes everything about what kind of prop or build it fits into.

1. Mini Kit — 20mm Round LCD

The smallest screens I make eyes for. 20mm round, which is roughly the size of a fin

gernail. These are for the builds where every millimeter matters.

Best for: small-scale Halloween props, doll restorations, puppet builds, robot toys, miniature animatronics, action figure customization, art pieces, mask builds with tight eye sockets.

Mini Kit — from $110

2. Original Kit — 35.7mm LCD

The kit that started DmitriyCreations. 1.3 inch round screens, paired with the original 20-animation library that grew into everything we have today.

Best for: medium props, masks, skulls, puppet builds, costumes where you want a clean classic look.

Original Kit — from $90

3. V2 Kit — 35.7mm LCD with 5 Switchable Eye Styles (Most Popular)

This is the one most people buy. Same 1.3″ screens as the Original, but with a SELECT button that cycles through 5 different animation styles on the fly. Mount the button outside the prop and you can change the eyes without opening anything up.

Best for: props that need to fit multiple scenes, haunt walk-throughs where the same prop runs different shows, cosplayers who want one helmet that can do five characters.

V2 Kit — from $110

4. Robot Kit — 35.7mm Round LCD 

35.7mm round screens — almost exactly the average size of a human eye. That’s not a marketing line, that’s the actual reason these became the bestseller.

Pop these into a plastic skull from the Halloween aisle, drop them into a mask, set them into a 3D-printed prop head, and the result reads as alive the second you power them on. They’re the fastest way I know to take a $20 store-bought prop and turn it into something that genuinely makes people stop walking.

Best for: Halloween displays, animatronics, masks, cosplay helmets, plastic-eye prop upgrades, custom art builds, robot costumes, theme park-style scares for the front yard.

Robot Kit — from $105

5. 2.8 Inch Kit — Rectangular LCD

2.8 inch rectangular displays — the size you need when you’re working with a big prop and a small screen would just disappear inside the eye socket.

This is the kit built for Big Ground Breaker props from Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Spirit Halloween. It’s the kit for the 12-foot skeletons, the Inferno Pumpkin, and every oversized prop where the stock plastic eyes look hollow from twenty feet away. Drop these in and suddenly the giant prop in your yard is actually looking at the kids walking up to the door.

Best for: 12ft skeletons, ground breakers, Inferno, large yard props, photo-op installations, theme park scale builds, any prop where the head is bigger than a coconut.

2.8 Inch Kit — from $115

The Animation Library Belongs to the Builders

Here’s the part I want every potential customer to know:

If you have an animation idea I haven’t built yet, send it to me. I’ll usually build it — and I usually don’t charge extra.

I love this part of the work. When someone messages me with a reference image of a character they’re building, or describes a creature concept they need eyes for, or sends a sketch of a prop they’ve been working on for months — that’s the most fun part of running this shop. Coding a new look, watching it come to life on the screen, and then knowing it’s going into a build I’d never have thought of myself.

Every one of these came from a customer:

  • DEAD — built for a customer doing a corpse character
  • PENNYWISE — built for a clown horror cosplay
  • GOAT — horizontal pupils for a satyr/demon build
  • MEX — built for a customer doing a Día de los Muertos display
  • ROBOT — the request that became its own kit line

And the requests keep coming in from everywhere. Right now I’m working on:

  • 10 kits headed to Brazil for Carnival. A team putting together a parade installation needed eyes for a series of large-format costumes. That’s the project on the bench this week.
  • A cosplay commission for a builder bringing a specific character to life this year.

That’s the joy of this. Eyes I designed on a workbench in Los Angeles are about to be running in a Carnival parade in Brazil. The eyes you might commission today could end up in someone else’s build next year — because once an animation is in the library, it stays there.

How to Request a Custom Animation

It’s simple. Here’s exactly what I need from you:

  1. Tell me what you’re building. A mask? A 3D-printed prop? A ground breaker upgrade? Cosplay? The build context helps me match the eye behavior to the scene.
  2. Send a reference. A photo, a sketch, a screenshot from a movie, a link to a character page — whatever shows me what you’re going for. The clearer the reference, the closer the first version lands.
  3. Tell me which kit you’re using. Mini, Original, V2, Robot, or 2.8 Inch — so I know what screen aspect ratio I’m animating for.
  4. Drop me a message. Email through the site, message me on Instagram (@dmitriycreations) or Facebook, or include the request in your order notes at checkout.

Most custom animations are turned around within a few days. I don’t charge extra for the work in almost all cases — the only exceptions are projects that require licensed art, multiple revision rounds, or animations that need entirely new code architecture (rare, but it happens).

Why I Built the Shop This Way

The big prop companies don’t take requests. You get what’s on the shelf. If you want something different, you build it yourself from scratch or you go without.

I started DmitriyCreations because I wanted to be the shop I would have wanted as a builder — one that listens, one that says yes to the weird requests, one where the animation you commissioned becomes part of the library for the next person who needs it.

Twenty animations turned into dozens because the haunt and cosplay community kept showing up with ideas worth building. That’s the model. That’s the shop.

If you have a build coming up, a custom character you’ve been planning, or a prop that needs eyes the big stores don’t sell — send it to me. I’d love to see it. And I’d love to see it on the other side of the world.

— Dmitriy

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Have an animation idea? Send it. I’ll see what I can build.

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