Character Dolls (based on fictional or other preexisting characters)

I'm definitely not new to the concept of character dolls.

I voted that I have character dolls, but at the moment that's really only off-topic dolls (Pullip/Taeyang/Dal lines). I've got quite the slough of different characters from very different series done, from Abby Sciuto of NCIS, Capt. Jack Harkness from Doctor Who/Torchwood, to anime characters from Gravitation and cartoons like Teen Titans, Avatar: the Last Airbender, and Legend of Korra. Funnily enough...when I moved back into bjds after a long hiatus, I had planned to focus solely on OCs...until I had an order mishap occur.

I had ordered a body for one of my OCs in a custom color, but the company I ordered from sent me the custom colored body in the wrong style (ordered one version of their female bodies, and instead got another, much curvier one) after working things out with the company (they let me keep the mistake), I decided to make this body into Korra from Legend of Korra.

I'm weird in a respect that I get really attached to some characters and series I end up being a fan of, and LoK is one I'm especially fond of. I'm still really fond of the original Avatar series, and don't see that dying any time soon. A fanfiction I have been working on for a while that's an AU retelling of Book 2 and onwards heavily inspired the story my OCs are coming from, so I have a very special attachment to the LoK characters I'm planning to create as bjds as a result of this.

I'm officially planning to do 4 of them: Korra, Asami, Mako and Tahno. They're going to be more based on the AU fic rather than the canon, so it will give me more licence to be creative with what I plan to do with them. I'll probably make outfits that fit with their canon wardrobe, but also add onto that with original pieces inspired by their existing garb. This will allow me also to further develop my sewing skills (I'm not confident in it enough yet to sell pieces I create), while also maybe giving me some inspiration in designing costumes of my OC crew (most of which is still WIP) since I haven't got a clear idea on in-universe style garb for them just yet (their story is still very much in the development stages, as I'm a Graphic Design student with classes taking up much of my time).

In general, the reason I like to do character dolls is because it allows me to: 1) have a doll version of a character that otherwise doesn't exist in existing series merchandise, 2) the ability to have characters from various series interact with each other that otherwise wouldn't (I'm a sucker for crossovers), and 3) I just like having them. I love doing original characters too, but I like having a few character dolls too in the mix. Variety is the spice of life after all.

 

I have Lavinia Whateley's ghost (from HP Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" ) and I'm looking for the right small doll to be Lovecraft himself. I'm also planning on shelling River Song, Rose Tyler and hopefully a couple of the Doctors as tinies.

 

I have a minifee who is currently cosplaying Junko Enoshima from Dangan Ronpa, I still need to make her pony tail bears and switch her bootlaces to red but after that she'll be perfect! Junko is one of my favorite characters to cosplay and I felt like, well *I* can't always cosplay Junko but she can!
I've thought about making a Hirako Shinji dolls from Bleach, yes I read it till the end, and have recently been pondering how hard it would be to make a Zentai suit to make one of my boys cosplay Deadpool lol.
I think it's different tho because Junko was bought TO cosplay she itmdoesnt feel like I'm making her cosplay as someone else, she's just the cosplayer of the group!

 

Who has a BJD inspired by or modeled after a character from film, TV, or literature? Who and why?

 

I do! Two of my guys are based on two of my favorite anime characters, Keba from Wolf's Rain and Hei from Darker Than Black. Keba is a white wolf who can make himself look like a human teenager/young adult. He has hope and a drive to find a fabled paradise. Hei is a "Contractor", a person with a special power who has to pay a price every time they use their power and feel less emotions then normal humans. Except Hei pays no price for his power, and is just as emotional as a human. He's also got the fan nickname "Chinese Electric Batman". Of course, in doll form living in the same world, they're a bit different. I love the characters so they're the basis for the characters of two of my dolls. Apologies for the anime nerd babble, but that's the best way to explain it.

 

ahaha yessss
i have a character inspired a bit by south park's craig tucker :P
i connect to him a lot and i feel like he's very much like my childhood self so i decided to name a character after him:



there are a lot of differences, certainly, but the inspiration was definitely there when i came up with his character.

 

Ummm...kinda. Yeah. I don't have any dolls who are replicas of other characters, or who are meant to portray specific characters or actors, but some do share traits.

Michael is loosely inspired by Macaulay Culkin, and so his full name is Michael Kevin Sennett---from Macaulay's characters Kevin from Home Alone and Thomas J Sennett from My Girl. He also loves Christmas candy, because Home Alone is a Christmas movie.

Luc shares some traits with Dale from "Come Back to Me", Tommy Gnosis from "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", Matt from "The Dirties" and Kevin from "We Need to Talk About Kevin", but he's not meant to really BE any of them specifically.

I'm also often told that Erica looks like Mia Wallace, but that was totally coincidental. XD

 

My Lavinia (aka Vinnie) is the ghost of Lavinia Whateley from HP Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror." She has more attitude than the story would suggest, though.

Lavinia by Beth Simmons, on Flickr

 

I have a few! My Marshall was inspired by Marshall Lee the Vampire King from Cartoon Network's Adventure Time's gender-bent episodes. Darius, the doll in my profile picture, was inspired by Beast from Disney's Beauty and the Beast. His character is more of my own version if he were more human-like. I also have a Sebastian Michaelis character doll from IoS which is meant to be an exact replica of him in doll form. I really adore certain characters and it bleeds into my own character development and stories.

 

This is a topic that comes up a lot on this forum -- here's a particularly lengthy thread on the subject.

To answer, though -- I have three character dolls. Kiyo is Sengoku Kiyosumi, from Prince of Tennis; Cecil is Cecil Harvey from Final Fantasy IV; and Dave is Dave Strider from Homestuck. To me half the allure of these dolls is the prospect of giant totally customizable action figures of my favorite characters. I don't much care what anyone else thinks about the whole concept, and I know there are a lot of people that think character dolls are somehow less creative or less involved or just less, period. This is what I do with my dolls. I enjoy it. I don't need any other why or why not.

 

My Peakswoods Dandy Bella "Selmy" I named after Selmy Barristan.

Selmy Barristan is one of the coolest characters in the Game of Thrones series and I like him a lot, but he is not my most favorite (I think it might have to be Tyrion, or Arya or Ned). I really like the name Selmy. Its my favorite name in the book

 

Wow he's stunning

 

I have a Kael'thas Sunstrider (Unoa Elder Xyle) and Lor'themar Theron (Littlefee Vampire Elf Rolly) from World of Warcraft, but they are just faceplates. A long journey lies before them.

I did have a Trade Prince Gallywix (Resinsoul Pixu) at one point, but never got far with him. I also had 5StarDoll's 'Baby Hellboy' Aiden, affectionately named 'Red'.

Unfortunately, character dolls don't blend with my others well. I've mostly given up on them. But minime sculpts make great bases for original characters.

Chauvelard is a Nobility Minime head based on Fenris from Dragon Age II:



Coincidentally, he's named for Chauvelin from The Scarlet Pimpernel. Lawful Evil villains, man. Gotta respect the classics. His personality design embodies characteristics from X-men's Magneto.

I also have the DIM version. He'll be coloured grey once he gets a body.

There's a character in my roster named 'Sellenor Astorix' who was shelled as a Lee Pace/Thranduil minime:



I'd like to remake him if I can find the right body.



Thalanx (Soom Sard), a sentient being not quite machine or organic, was psuedo-named for the Phalanx, also from X-men. Their tattoos were inspired by Apocalypse.

Traveler, who used to be a Batchix Orpheus, was a large nod to Doctor Who. I even gave him a long scarf and a hairstyle resembling Tom Baker's.



The 'Voices Beyond' mentioned in various profiles is our name for the Old Ones of H.P. Lovecraftian renown.

@LadyMadrigal Speaking of Lovecraft, what a sweet little spook you've got there! I dig that wide, soulful gaze.

 

I have a doll of Marius from Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. *___*



He was my favorite character from the books, and I just thought he would be amazing in doll form. Favorite characters from more recent shows/books/anime have tempted me to make them into dolls, but I haven't caved, and even though it's been a while since I read the Vampire Chronicles, Marius sticks around. He's so calming to look at.

 

O thank you

 

I always pictured Marius to look like this! Your Marius is so handsome and I agree, he does give off a calming effect

 

I do! They are all of various scales/sizes and sculpts, but here is an un-detailed list:

Comics
DC
Batman x3
Joker x4
Harley Quinn x2
John Constantine
Catwoman
Penguin
Riddler
Scarecrow
Nightwing (WIP)
Robin (WIP)
Lex Luthor (WIP)
Two-Face (head only)
Catwoman #2 (head only)
Marvel
Gambit (waiting on his new body)
Jean Grey/Phoenix

Movies and Comics
Dr. Strange (because he's a MNM he can't go under comics. that makes sense.)

Movies and Lit
Bilbo Baggins
Smaug

Lit
Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast (who has a new body on the way so his body will become -)
Harry Dresden (who's head I'm technically waiting for so Pendergast has his body while I wait for both parts)
Bob the Skull

Wishlist for next year
Deadpool (YO sized)
Hellboy (YO sized)
Poison Ivy (SD sized)

I used to only make BJDs of my own characters...but I tripped over that dividing wall and am trapped firmly on the other side.

 

I have a few..

Issun, my little Banji, is a resin version of the sidekick character of the same name from the video game O-kami.

My CP/Delf Yder, D, is a resin version of my favorite manga character.

Nightengale (CP/Delf Dreaming El mod) started out as a resin version of Nue from HaruToki, but has ended up sort-of going his own way over the years.

I have an EID Tedros version of the Prince of Shadows, from the tabletop RPG 13th Age...

... as well as a Volks Kiriko version of one of my favorite City of Heroes MMO characters who was based on a humanlike but inhuman species created by Manly Wade Wellman in the 1940's. That makes Shonokin sort-of a literary character once-removed, I guess.

And then there's Dakkar, my Volks F-17, who's meant to be a very young version of a character I've been fond of since I was a kid. Not a lot of people recognize him by name, though. At least, not by THAT name. (If I'd gone for an older avatar and called him Nemo, that probably wouldn't have been an issue. XD)

Given that he's a mash-up of my favorite aspects of both Sun Wukong (from Journey to the West, among other things) and Hanuman (from the Ramayana), my Monkey King probably counts, too...

 

I have three right now.
My first is Ichabod from the short story Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving. I love the story and am thrilled to have my own Ichabod. He is a DZ Benjamin head on a DC k-02 body. Finding an outfit circa late 1700's has proven difficult though.
Second is my Lee-el Tinman Wirt, who reminds me of Clank from the video game series. I like the concept of Clank, but want to keep Wirt as his own character.
Third is (currently on order) a Luts Fenny to be Ratchet. This one will be also based on the character, but I'm going to design him my own way, not an exact copy. So Ratchet and Clank wannabe's, lol.

 

I'm actually working on a doll modeled after Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones