Because the eyes that I had been using were very dull and didn't have much life in them, I created some new ones using a method which was new to me. I took the sphere which I already had for the eye and applied a simple eye material to it. This was nothing new, I was exactly the same as what I had done on the face that I made last semester. The problem was that the eyes had no glint in them. To correct this I selected the front polygons of the sphere (the ones which covered the colored part of the eye) then by holding 'shift' I copied the polygons to a new element. This element formed the lens of the eye. Then I flattened the polygons that were originally selected so that the lens would be sit proud of the rest of the eye.

The glint in the eye was then added by applying an HDRI map to the reflect map of the material which I used for the lens of the eye. The video clip shows that the eyes glisten quite nicely and look far more alive.