It works out anatomically. Try placing spheres in as eyeballs and see if you can structure the surrounding area properly without turning the eyeballs out. Leave them at 0 degrees and you compromise the shape and proportions of the skull itself.
One way to prove or disprove this theory that eyes point outward in the skull once and for all would be to find that visible human project where they took millions of slices through a deceased ex con. Can't seem to find it though.
Something I don't quite understand - essentially eyeballs are spheres... how will rotating them compromise the proportions of the skull? Spheres have 360 degrees of rotational symmetry... The only thing is the cornea which bumps out slightly, and that hardly alters the shape of the eyelids at all. Surely you can model a…
If that person is dead, and his eyes are skewed out, then that should make it a good default position to set the eyes in, don't you think? I think I read somwhere that eyeballs are universally the same size, give or take a few mm. So babies and females with large, cute eyes with large pupils actually just have smaller…