Eyes Are out of nowhere being wonky and crazy

If the eyes go in the opposite direction than expected, the normal thing is the Pupil Size layer is greater than the Pupil Range layer. This could be stray artwork in the pupil layer, or mistagging of the pupil range (e.g. multiple tags). I would check the blue and yellow outlines for the pupil size and pupil range layers (whatever has been tagged with those tags) to see if the bounding boxes is larger/smaller than you expected.

https://extra-ordinary.tv/2018/04/21/debugging-character-animator-eyess/ ... oh darn, did you say you read that already!

The main culprits are:

• The tagging hierarchy in Character Animator. If a stray tag snuck in somewhere, it can mess things up.
• The "+" of independence was missed on a pupil it can cause the problem as well.
• Stray pixels or "pupil range"s that are smaller than the pupil

Can you provide a screenshot of the layer hierarchy inside character animator?

If you share a puppet I don't mind having a quick look. (Use the File menu export puppet and upload to Google Drive or similar.)

Hmm, I notice the nose disappeared as well? And the mouth is different. Probably unrelated, but curious nonetheless.