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I was afraid of signing up for that Joint forum because I’m such a newbie to this whole thing but holy crap there’s some inspirational stuff in there. Someone made this like, photo-realistic Cylian Murphy head and it’s like say whaaaaaaaaat?

Oh wow, I just saw someone talk about boiling sculpey because even though it doesn’t get as hard as it does in an oven, it doesn’t burn and you can still add stuff to it after and boil it again.

Man what a good idea, especially for little finnicky things like claws and eyes you might want to keep rigid while you’re fitting them into soft features.

Oh no I was combining random Pokemon with Cubone and this happened. Oh nooooooo.

Oh no I was combining random Pokemon with Cubone and this happened.


Oh nooooooo.

cowpewter asked
Tumblr won't let me respond to the ask where you mentioned, but I own centaur bjds from a couple different companies. They're all pretty much strung with one string for both back legs, anchored in the front of the horse torso. It doesn't necessarily pull the back legs straight under tension because, 1) they are smaller dolls with thinner elastic, the tension isn't that strong, and 2) ridges in the ball socket, that form 'locks' for a bump on the leg piece. I can take photos if you want.

Oh wow, that’d be awesome!

I found a doodle of Blue making some “you’re being extremely rude but I’m not going to confront you about it and hope you come to realize the error of your ways” face while I was poking around my Manga studio files and for some reason it just seems really funny to me right now.

I found a doodle of Blue making some “you’re being extremely rude but I’m not going to confront you about it and hope you come to realize the error of your ways” face while I was poking around my Manga studio files and for some reason it just seems really funny to me right now.

littlefroggies replied to your photoset: I like Kaye Wiggs designs because they look like…
aahhhh I really wanted one in french resin, god dang these expensive dollies
I really loved that one you were making! I know they’re all huge time sinks but I’d love to see it finished (I’m sure the one I want to do is going to end up taking the time I’m bored for like the next five years of my life. I’ll just have a drawer full of unfinished monster guts)

I like Kaye Wiggs designs because they look like the little elfy things that Chuuch and Schoyer are.

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ensonne asked
Your ball-joint beast. Maybe not a face plate but a back plate, and hook all strings to that instead? It could be in the old style where the hook is on the removed plate. Especially true If the beast's back is ridged or plated you can hide the hook and cap there so the beast's head is not cluttered. Stringing through to the head when it's that small might be difficult. Just a suggestion.

Ah, maybe! I could see that making it less awkward to pose out the back legs too, because the elastics won’t be trying to pull them out straight like a bipedal creature would be. I should see if I can track down anyone who makes/owns those centaur ones, they’re the closest I’ve seen to what I want to do joints and proportion wise. All the other quadrupeds I’ve seen have been super tiny.

Granted, I’m super new to the world of ball jointed dolls and I’m coming more from a direction like “I want to engineer a thing and make it with my hands!” than “I really like these dolls!”

My adventures on ball jointed doll sites

Click on this thing to look at this thing.

hahahahahah we fooled you there is no that thing here.

allons-why replied to your photo: Plotting out a ball jointed monster, gotta figure…

would it work if you did a faceplate rather than making the scalp removable? then you’d have room for the neck joint and just pop off the front instead?

Ah, maybe that could work? I want him to have kind of a mane thing so I’m working out how the most efficient way to make that happen and have his head come apart, and keep it all fairly inconspicuous.

I keep trying to surf ball jointed doll sites for reference on how to handle joints and breaks and stuff, but every single one I’ve been on has been borderline un-navigatable. But since they’re all frustrating in the same way I assume it’s just that I don’t know jack shit about the secret patterns of ball jointed doll sites and I need to hire a guide to help me reach the summit.