On the Eye Contact vs. No Eye Contact thing? Seems simple enough usually: Is the subject aware of the viewer? In other words, do you want the viewer to feel as though they are a "character" in the scene, or an outside omniscient observer. Sometimes one way, sometime's t'other. Just another tool to be used to manipulate the affect on your viewer IMHO. --------------------- ~OT-OT: In addition to using a Point-At Eye Target prop as SamTherapy mentioned above, I recently played around with using an extended cylinder prop, parented to the eyes, to simulate the line-of-sight for a figure. Kinda gratuitous, if using the Eye-Target prop, but, at a minimum, it was fun watch while adjusting the eyes that way!