Character Dolls (based on fictional or other preexisting characters)

I'm working on a character doll. I'm doing Szayel Aporro Granz Espada number 8. I love him so much.

 

I have quite the obsession with buying and making Dollfie Dream character dolls in particular! I currently own Rise Kujikawa and am working on customs of the Higurashi girls, Misuzu Kamio, Lucy/Nyuu, and others.

 

Hmm...I've said before in this thread that I have character dolls and they tend to stay on track, but there's been a recent development--one of them is developing completely away from the character I meant for him to be! This, of course, is fine with me.

I still love character dolls, but I suppose when you make one you ought to keep an open mind and consider that the character might not stick.

 

I need to see this so badly! xD

I don't really make character dolls HOWEVER I'm planning on several full cosplays for several of my dolls -wigs and everything included- that include Judal from Magi the Labyrinth of Magic, Link from Legend of Zelda, Chirno and Satori Komeiji from the Touhou Project and several others~ c: those aren't really going to be permanent or anything but they fit the dolls they're intended for in character so I'm very happy about that~

 

Not too interesting but a Mad Hatter, Red Queen, Alice and a Cheshire ... oh, and a white rabbit as well. Well they are my interpretation of them anyway.

 

I so want Altaïr and Malik and Ezio and Rivaille andandand--- Well yeah. I totally want at least one BJD that looks exactly like one of my favorite character from a game or anime! Think of all the fanart you can make! *cough*
But seriously, if I ever decide to get that Altaïr or Rivaille BJD, I'm going to make it myself~
Sidenote: My doll, Eden is very losely based on Daenerys from Game of Thrones, but I do realize she doesn't look anything like her at the moment, but I totaly had her in mind when modding Eden's face and designing her style. (No pic, because I haven't gotten down to make her clothing yet [exept one leather dress] o///o)

 

I actually own one right now He bases on Harry Potter series but combine with my imagination and other stuffs I found online.
You can see him in my signature below. He's my 16-year-old version of Severus Snape!
And I plan to have Sirius, James and Remus as well. But really not this soon I'm still broke!

 

I voted No and I have no plans to but my BF keeps saying I should make a couple dolls after characters from League of Legends. I've already got some of it planned out but it's just a matter of getting that sort of extra money set aside all at once. So it may never happen

 

I plan on buying Nero of Fate/Extra from Volks but I really want Arthuria so I'll customize her to become Arthuria. XD

 

Ah! I agree with this! I have been planning out doll cosplays, but I wouldn't want to make it permanent as I have so many different plans. More than anything, it'll just be my OCs cosplaying or having a spare doll to make little outfits with to correspond with me.

 

I agree with the cosplaying idea as well! I don't think I would like to have a doll that's meant to be a specific character from a show or something all the time. It just feels less creative to me, but that isn't to say that I don't think it's cool when other people do it! It's just not for me

 

So I've been wondering about this a lot lately. How do you...deal (I guess? Not really the right word, but oh well) with the dolls who are based off characters not your own?

I generally style my dolls off of my own characters that I created.....I have a lot of them so I don't need to borrow others. Lately I have one doll who's been hanging around as one of the X-men (which has always been my favorite thing evar), I don't do anything with him, but he looks good (what else matters??) and he's kind of an extra doll (don't ask) that I remade into my own character then changed to this one for a while because I could. In my head I keep thinking I'll change him back to Raziel (my character) someday, but it hasn't happened, and now I have an incoming doll that I thought I might make into another X-men character....It'll be different than the original, because said doll happens to be the wrong gender and I'm not going to change that XD and I ended up with this whole backstory idea I came up with while at work today and now I'm kind of excited about it....

But I'm afraid I'll get the doll, put all this work into creating this not-really-original character and then get bored with it and not like it after awhile. Because that's how I roll apparently. I've tried the Character Doll thing many times since getting into BJDs, and generally the same thing happens. I finish the doll, and then don't want it anymore. I almost had it with an AU version of a Rug Rats character, but I sold him pretty quickly when I decided to shrink the group a tad.

I'm really interested to know what other people do with theirs. Are they carbon copies of the originals?? Kinda twisted? Fan ficcy stuff?? Do they interact with your own characters?
I need inspiration lol so I don't repeat my usual pattern. The first doll is safe, he can go back to Raziel any time (though I'm going to amend his faceup to reflect his "new" self....), it's the second doll, which I really want, that needs preemptive help - I'm out of characters of my own that I want to doll. He won't stick around if this one doesn't work out....

All opinions will be verily appreciated
Thanks!

 

Currently I've got 2 Character dolls and several more planned, but the majority of my collection is just based off of how an individual doll speaks to me. With a mixture of both, I was worried too that I'd do the same thing - put all this time and money into a character and then be bored with it. Luckily, I managed to avoid that pitfall.

The way I've found that I approach character dolls is applying some of my own interpretations to them and having a sense of humor to keep them from getting boring. All my dolls know they're dolls, even my 2 current characters. While they still retain their "base personality" - Loki is still an obnoxious jerk and Thor is still stubborn and kind of arrogant - they also get my interpretation of themselves which allows me to make them "mine" in a sense, which is what lets me bond with them and enjoy them a lot more then if I forced them into little boxes of complete accuracy. They haven't really interacted with many of my other dolls, but I foresee it on the horizon.

Not to be too much of a nerd (well, more then I've advertised now...), I told a friend of mine something similar when we were discussing the mistreatment of a game series we both really like and cosplay from:
no matter what the creators do or say, once you release something to the public, release characters to the public, they're going to take them and make them their own. Everyone has their own interpretation of a character, and no matter what anyone says or does, that can't be taken away. Our idea of the character, all the missing stuff we've filled in for ourselves like how they think or what they've done, is what allows us to relate to them and make them ours.

... I really hope they didn't come off too highfalut'n XD

 

This is pretty much how I approach the issue of character dolls. [break]I'm not into fiction-writing, and coming up with OCs just holds no interest for me. My doll is a character doll--- or at least, she's MY version of one of my favorite fictional characters. The sculpt reminded me of the character, not just for a facial resemblance but the general mood/feeling about her. So I modeled her face-up, coloring, hair, style and etc. after the character, (but gave her a different name--- I didn't care for the real character's name) and she's my interpretation of her--- but I don't try to have her inhabit the world the character comes from, because my doll-version of the character is a doll and knows she's a doll. (if that makes any sense! it's kind of hard to explain this stuff.) Just about all the dolls I have planned will be the same way, including the one I have on the way. I guess that's just how I prefer to do things.[/break]

 

At least two of my dolls will be shelled so that I can make them cosplay as different characters, swapping out heads and outfits, although for the most part I will keep dolls of my OCs.

 

The above is largely how I'm approaching my own character dolls. One of them I'd already had for some time, and had planned to just do him as a copy of the character, much like VampireAngel13 was describing, which meant for a long time nothing really happened with him. After I played him in an RP, however, I decided to turn the sculpt into that RP version of him, and in turn, bring home some of the other characters around him. Both adding that element to him, and adding more dolls to the set, gave me the interest I needed, and work has started again!

The key for me was when I made the character more personal, not just that copy. I've got other figures of the character that can serve that purpose, in this case I want something different, and that's what I'm getting through my work on him.

 

I'm planning a character doll in the future, might or might not create her tho,
but I just thought Ai Enma from 'Hell Girl', would be amazingly creepy,
and while I don't have my first doll yet (which is going to be based offa a OC) I think they'd make great friends.

 

I love Akira Toriyama's series "Dr. Slump" and I ordered a Littlefee Madeleine to be the little robot girl, Arale. I bought a custom outfit from Etsy, have the glasses and purple wig, and all that other good stuff, and now I'm just waiting for her to come home. She'll need some mods and a special faceup, of course, but I think it's kind of neat to see people's take on popular characters and how close they can get with it.

 

At first I say no but... the more I think, more I'm tempted. Probably one of my favorite character of always, like Pride from fullmetal alchemist (the manga, not the first anime) or Yuko from xxxHolic. And I agree with vicemage when she says "made the character more personal, not just that copy." I think it will be really fun <:

 

I wouldn't quite base a doll on the actual character, but I would take some ideas and make a new character. Lets say , a ninja type character based on Naruto etc