Dim Minimee Update & Talk Part 1

Edit: Gahhh!! >_< I take it back, I guess, I was wrong. I'm such a dork, well, thanks everyone for clearifying!!

Edit: so I dont confuse anyone.

Edit: Sterling says she bought a $380 BJD style minimee head and she claims it to be 80&#37;, and again she most likely had excellent references, but what would it have looked like if she actually chose 80% "celebrity option" with those same pictures she sent?? Would that head look better, more realistic perhaps??

 

Sharonpixie you pay 380 if you want it looking more doll like ( 50&#37; realism) or pay 430 if you want it more realistic ( 80% realism).

Thus you could have a 50% realism celebrity ( actor, singer, CG Character) if you wanted.

It depends on what you pay, not pictures you send in, but the better the pictures the better the sculpt of course.

What Denny considers a celebrity? Thats a toughy... I think anyone that could be recognized from TV and could get Denny in trouble ( copyright infringement wise) would be a celebrity

 

I purchased an 80% Realistic Non-celebrity minimee (it was actually a mini me). It cost me $380, plus shipping. I would say she is closer to 95% realistic to me! Its CRAZY how much she looks like me .

 

That's great! You must have had good references...but Image how much more detailed and even closer it would be if you paid for $430.

 

No such thing as an 80&#37; BJD stly minimee.

Your just very lucky Sterling

I've seen people here that pay the 380 and they all look BJD like, not as realistic at all. ( but hey some people could have given good references and be more lucky then others) Most that pay the 430 get more realistic heads. For a better example of this is the Minimee database here:

http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130694&highlight=minimee

Or else why would people pay the 80% at all for sculpts of there characters or family members?

80% Celebrity dose not mean just celebrity's. You will see people use 80% for characters, themselves and family members

 

I would consider celebrity to be anyone you have actual photos of that you don't personally know. o.O; There's probably more to go into that but any singer, sports person, actor, newscaster, model, author, etc etc should be considered a celebrity.

I still don't think you pay depending on amount of detail you want. I haven't heard of anybody that ordered a realistic minimee of themselves paying the same price you would for a celebrity.
I had Denny's team do a minimee from my drawings and it's incredibly detailed and realistic (despite having horns) and it wasn't the same price as a celebrity. XD;;; I don't think they could have done a better job no matter how much I paid them. LOL.

 

Same here. There is no way anyone could have done a better job on my minimee no matter how much I paid them. Mine is very realistic, and I only paid the $380.

 

Kazzi's right. The celebrity option has nothing to do with the amount of realism you choose. If you wanted you could get a less realistic celebrity minimee but you would still have to pay the higher amount for it as a celebrity.
And IMO the 80&#37; cutoff is just in case there's a customer who can't be satisfied no matter what. Obviously we've all seen minimees that are way more than 80% realistic.

 

Kobatastic: Well, I guess I am being proved wrong then, I am willing to admit it, then why would denny say,

http://www.denofangels.com/forums/sh...&postcount=156
He said in one area of it,
"And customers can choose between BJD Style & Realistic style.
BJD style : 40-50&#37; of your face
Realistic Style : 70-80% of your face"- Quote from Denny, on his post.

He stressed "of your face"...I am assumming that he clearly means, my/your face. So you're saying you would consider yourself as not being a celebrity? then why does he say that in that post " of your face"??

And as for paying for a celebrity, I had my own characters done, I got previews for 1 of them already out of 2. I had to pay "celebrity option" for both of them. Because I thought it was the amount of detail put into your sculpt, and denny ok the payment.


What about the people who are more of realism style type of drawings, that created their own characters? Wouldn't you say that there is probably more to go into that character? Would that be considered a celebrity?

Where you used, a anime-ish style of drawing?

I was pretty darn sure, it was you pay more for more realism... or was I wrong the whole time???

 

Goil So you and kazzi are saying celebrity is just for actual actors, and actual celebrities..
But that's not what denny said in past posts.
Hence: ( again it comes back to my question)
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/sh...&postcount=156
He said in one area of it,
"And customers can choose between BJD Style & Realistic style.
BJD style : 40-50&#37; of your face
Realistic Style : 70-80% of your face"- Quote from Denny, on his post.

He stressed "of your face"...I am assumming that he clearly means, my/your face. So you're saying you would consider yourself as not being a "celebrity option"? then why does he say that in that post " of your face"??

 

I sent Denny a PM so when he gets on he can clear this up for us.

Edit:

Sterling you have me all interested in your minimee now, lol could you post a picture of it?

 

I'm pretty sure he means "the face that you have chosen to be made into a Minimee".

 

I think Denny used 'your face' just as I would call my doll's head 'my head' though it's obviously not on my own shoulders. And I certainly wouldn't call myself a celebrity
Also, it's important to remember that even with someone with good language skills there is bound to be some awkward wording once in a while. If you paid the celebrity price for your head you should contact Denny with your payment details for a refund. It probably went by unnoticed but I'm sure he'll take care of you.

 

You pay extra for a celebrity because he originally meant for this project to be for people to have pictures of themselves or family. A celebrity sculpt is of someone famous- for instance, I got a David Bowie doll. I paid $50 extra for him, because Denny added a fee for stuff that is copyrighted or of someone famous. Probably because people are more likely to resell the head if it is of someone famous.

If you get a sculpt of yourself or of your own drawings, it is less money, regardless of how realistic it is. Lots of people here have gotten minimees made from photographs of themselves, and had it be 80% realistic, but it only cost $380, as opposed to $50 more.

If you checked the payment for the celebrity price, he probably just assumed it was something he hadn't seen before. He relies on customers to tell him when it's a celebrity or copyrighted character.

 

Alright, thanks guys. >_<; Hopefully others are clear on this too. Gosh, darnit... alright, I'll talk to denny about it. ^_^

 

Awww, I thought the same thing pink_dollie. I'm waiting for a reply from Denny to clear this all up.I'll post it when I get it. Hope this helps

 

Here's how I think it goes...

The celebrity head says 80&#37; because DIM doesn't want people's hope to go up too high when ordering. We often have our "own" image of what the celebrity looks like to us.

So to avoid dissapointment it says that they can only promise 80%. But I've seen 100%! So it's a matter of personal taste. ^^

 

*nods* I totally understand now. Sorry, sorry for the confusion.

 

Then why is the other option only up to 50% for the 380$ yet 80% for the 430$...

thats what I don't get, why would Denny say that the $380 BJD style is only 50%, thats like saying that you, your family, lover, friends, and own characters are going to be made in less likeness, yet celebrity sculpts will have more likeness in them.

Why not just say the $430 is for celebrities ONLY and the $380 is for you, loved ones, and personal characters, etc. on the ordering page. ALso Denny should say that you can get 80% likeness with the 380$ one as well.

Can't wait till he get on

 

As others have said, $380=non celebrity, $430=celebrity. Either one can have the 50% or 80% likeness.

The reason that there's the 50% and 80% because some people may want a head that's a more stylized likeness and not so ultra-realistic. It's not that they won't sculpt you or your loved ones 80% realistic. They will. I believe a number of the non-celebrity heads in the Minimee database are 80%, and at least one is the 50% BJD style.

My Morrissey head is 80% realistic, and I use 12mm eyes in his head. I love the look, but the head looks very different from a more stylized BJD head that takes, say, 16mm eyes. If someone is planning to often photograph their Minimee alongside more stylized sculpts, they might prefer to go the 50% BJD style for a more consistent look between their dolls. Others prefer the more realistic 80% look, and it seems that most of the celebrity orders have been going this route. It's all a matter of personal taste.