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Title: Where are these floating eyeball creatures from?
Question: I feel I saw these creatures somewhere (in a movies or a TV series...) but I can't remember a single detail. Can anyone identify what they are?  Here's a drawing representation.

Answers:
sents: text: This is the 'Garden of Eyes' scene from Kubo and the Two Strings .
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/Valorum
score: 41
sents: text: The classic form of this monster is D&D 's Beholder , “The body of these creatures is a great globe about 3′ in diameter.
text: Atop it are ten eye stalks, while in the center of the spherical body is a great eleventh eye.
text: The body can sustain 40 points of damage, each eye stalk 10 points, and the central eye can withstand up to 20 points...” which is so important to its mythos that it's one of the few baddies specifically claimed by Wizards of the Coast as their IP.
text: That obviously hasn't stopped imitators like this guy :
text: “Greet with warm compassion; they will embrace our generosity.
text: Revisit with stern warning; they will heed our genuine concern.
text: Annihilate with great prejudice; they will serve as an example for others.”
text: They were presumably inspired, however, by monstrosities like H.P. Lovecraft 's Old Ones , “Those in shallow water had continued the fullest use of the eyes at the ends of their five main head tentacles, and had practiced the arts of sculpture and of writing in quite the usual way—the writing accomplished with a stylus on waterproof waxen surfaces.” described in At the Mountains of Madness .
text: Apparently, long before that, Ralph Waldo Emerson 's essay "Nature" included a section about a "transparent eyeball" that caused Christopher Pearse Cranch to draw this
text: “I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.”
text: c. 1837, apparently based on a misunderstanding of what transparent means.
text: That said, especially in reference to film, any gentleperson of taste and sophistication would more quickly recognize it as the Guardian “A Guardian.
text: What it sees — Lo Pan knows!” from Big Trouble in Little China .
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/80732/lly
score: 32
sents: text: The core of the planetary parasite Axos from Doctor Who (" The Claws of Axos ," 1971) resembles a floating eye on a stalk.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48874/Buzz
score: 13
sents: text: Could this be The Floating Eye of Death from
text: The Aquabats ?
text: It also reminds me of Omi the Dianoga from Star Wars .
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/30772/ZenLogic
score: 12
sents: text: The Aquabats vs. the Floating Eye of Death! is the third studio album from American band
text: The Aquabats, released on October 26, 1999.
text: Here's the cover album:
text: It also reminds me the alien twins Bwelelyang and Bob from the movies Men
text: In Black , but they don't shoot beams, as I remember.
text: There's also an animated series, but the design is not the same:
text: Note that the movie version looks like Elder Things from HP Lovecraft, but with no wings.
text: Six feet end to end, three and five-tenths feet central diameter,tapering to one foot at each end.
text: Like a barrel with five bulgingridges in place of staves.
text: Lateral breakages, as of thinnish stalks,are at equator in middle of these ridges.
text: In furrows between ridgesare curious growths – combs or wings that fold up and spread out likefans.
text: . .
text: which gives almost seven-foot wing spread.
text: Arrangementreminds one of certain monsters of primal myth, especially fabledElder Things in the Necronomicon. —
text: H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains ofMadness They are a lot of different interpretations of the creature.
text: You maybe have seen one with a big eye...
text: Here is one illustration, but each artist delivers something different from this description:
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/101769/Professeur Dronte
score: 9
sents: text: This is possibly the monster from Cybersix , episode 9: "The Eye" (1999): In this episode, Von Reichter sends José one of his newest creations to test out, a small floating eyeball which grows larger as it sucks out people's souls.
text: José nearly takes over the entire city until he loses control of it, leaving it up to Cybersix to save the city and take the monster down.
text: The visual effects in the episode are similar to the drawing.
text: Shooting destructive beams (at 137 seconds):
text: Absorbing souls (at 269 seconds):
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/78630/Gaultheria
score: 6
sents: text: They’re Demon Eyes from Terraria .
text: They fly around bombing you and shooting you, etc
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/102919/Hackaholic5069
score: 6
sents: text: They may also be the Atraxi from Doctor
text: Who , from " The Eleventh Hour " episode with the Eleventh Doctor.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/8971/Sam
score: 2
sents: text: Could be the aliens from the "Moonstone" episode of the original The Outer Limits .
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/105729/tim Curran
score: 2
sents: text: To add to the other answers, it also made me think of the one eye monster called Ocula in Small Soldiers (1998).
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/130921/LeaG
score: 2

Summary of the answers:
It is not clear what these creatures are, but there are several possibilities. They could be from the "Garden of Eyes" scene in Kubo and the Two Strings, or they could also from a monster known as D&D's Beholder. The planetary parasite Axos from Doctor Who and the monster from Cybersix also resemble this particular creature.
There are many monsters that resemble this, for example those in the 'Garden of Eyes' scene from Kubo and the Two Strings, D&D's Beholder, H.P. Lovecraft 's Old Ones from The Mountains of Madness, the planetary parasite Axos from Doctor Who ("The Claws of Axos" 1971) or the monster from Cybersix , Episode 9:  "The Eye" (1999).