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Doll Company RSDOLL

Jul 1, 2012

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    1. nancy: The girls on Raurencio's site is still the same resin as before. Only the new RSDOLL guys are the ones being done by Crobi.
       
      #21 PacificBlue, Jul 2, 2012
    2. I wonder if this spine system will work with other brands of dolls? I notice that it is listed separately. It is a great idea. Nice to see an actual new system being designed.
       
      #22 cirquemom, Jul 2, 2012
    3. What difference would the spin part make? I am quite interested about it but it doesn't seem to show much difference compared to using the common elastic...? :/
       
      #23 therie, Jul 3, 2012
    4. Hello. We updated pictures of head part with makeup and head part without makeup in our website.

      We will update the news about new events in the notice board, so please refer to the board.
       
      #24 racius, Jul 4, 2012
    5. I think you would need the pelvis with the special mounting for it.
       
      #25 nancy_schroeder_ca, Jul 4, 2012
    6. The spine bone system immediately had my attention as well!

      But, after having pondered it for a while... what are the vertebrae really there for? I mean, the movement of the torso must come from the metal rod that holds everything together, as far as I can see, it must be somewhat flexible. The vertebrae are put on the rod like beads on a string, and they have no visible connection among each other, as they would have in a working spine.
      So, are they for (a very cool) decoration only?^^

      Anyway, I like their face molds as well! Well done.
       
      #26 Mandagore, Jul 4, 2012
    7. The vertebrae are indeed decorative (and very cool! What a great idea.). The functional part is the anchored wire. It must be flexible, either a woven thing (they call it a "wick") or a soft wire like aluminum bonsai wire, since they show pictures of a good range of movement. What this setup does is prevent the stomach popping that happens with some dolls with a hip joint because of the strong tension and pull of the strings through the torso. Some bodies, like the old Dollshe, used to pop all the time. Later bodies, like Delf, had a raised area inside the pelvis that would prevent any full slide of the torso part.

      For Dolshe's, with no internal lips, some of us put a length of segmental doll frame (white, plastic, made of interlocking segments easily popped off but hell to put back together) sometimes used for cloth dolls. What this did was stabilize the whole torso (they had a separate chest piece too) and prevent too much motion and slide at the hip level. But since it was a much more rigid system, we lost the ability to do any really slouchy or angled movements of the torso.

      I have one of the first Raurencio male bodies, and they had no internal stoppers at the hips, and side-side torso movements are somewhat unstable (even more so than the earlier-made UD-r bodies by the same sculptor).

      I'm really interested to see this new system in owner-action. And the thought of a spine inside...
       
      #27 hobbywhelmed, Jul 4, 2012
    8. The first think I thought of seeing this spine is the internal structure of the Volks Dollfie Dreams. Not that is looks the same, the idea is similar. IMHO
       
      #28 2otaku, Jul 5, 2012
    9. I'm very excited about this new company, especially the spine-bone system!

      I did ask racius whether the Raurencio site was carrying on, and he said that it is.

      I ordered a Ralph head from Raurencio which is on its way - I wish I could put him on the RSDOLL body!

      It will be very interesting to see whether the two kinds of resin have a similar tone.
       
      #29 glass_mountain, Jul 5, 2012


    10. Hello, hobbywhelmed.

      It was surprised me that you have the doll made by me long time ago. They were many problems because the doll made long before, but you have been keeping the doll so I appreciate about that(Actually, the doll is a model emphasized on a realistic muscle description, for this reason the doll have imperfect joints.). I think that the spine bone system this time is imperfect, too. However I’ll make the better joints by continuing with consideration. And I have a plan that upgrade consistently to the people purchased my doll.
       
      #30 racius, Jul 5, 2012

    11. Hello, Mandagore.

      I appreciate your comment, and your thought was right on the mark! The spine bone system is just decoration as you mentioned. ^^

      I were concerned about making the torso part of sculpt have variety poses. But the torso part linked by elastic string couldn’t always have a fixed pose because tension of string. So other doll designers, including me, used to make partly fixed joint in the way that hanging each other by making groove joints. I were worried about the way make a sculpt having more free action. And I tried linking a belly part by wire. And therefore I made the belly part like now. The wire in belly kept state how moved, so it helped making poses I wanted. However, it can’t bear to see the metal wire inside beautiful dolls made by me. Please imagine that our beloved dolls have just metal string inside. How ugly it is! I think that dolls have a beautiful appearance, should have a beautiful inner side. For this reason, I made the spine bone in part.


      Because the dolls made by me have human’s looks, I thought that it was cool having inner side similar to a human’s. Of course it has a lot of expense and effort to make the spine bone shape in invisible side like this. But I’ll gladly take the trouble for the people loved dolls made by me, and decided that didn’t take any additional cost.

      The point of spine bone system this time is a flexible wire, and you are correct. But I think decorating the wire is important part to a doll designer.
       
      #31 racius, Jul 5, 2012
    12. It's really cool to have a doll with a spine, even when you can't see it from the outside! And the body is really beautiful.
       
      #32 Khell, Jul 5, 2012
    13. racius, I understand! Thanks for answering. You are right - your spine bones are very delicate and aesthetically pleasing, great work! They look so natural, at first I thought the pictures showed an anatomical model of the human spine, like the ones we used when I studied!

      ("For decoration" was never meant to be derogative, by the way. I just wondered how it works.)

      It is a pity you cannot see these little works of art anymore once the doll is fully strung!^^

      Hobbywhelmed, oooooh yessss, I remember the doll armatures we put into the ole belly popping Dollshe boys, amongst other things^^ I still might have one or two of these things lying around in the doll room. A pity they never worked too well^^
       
      #33 Mandagore, Jul 5, 2012
    14. It`ll hold the posings you make in place I think. On a doll without the spine, if trying to pose it to like sit with the back bending forward. You might have some trouble depending on how the doll is built.

      My SDF body tend to shoot back up if I try to bend it to much forward.

      I think it is brilliant with that spine. Allows the doll to keep the posing positions you want it to keep:)
       
      #34 manabusama, Jul 7, 2012
    15. Has anyone ordered these handsome guys yet?! I've just placed my order for Daniel! :D I really love the new body that RSDOLL has created and can't wait for my guy to come home.
       
      #35 PacificBlue, Jul 8, 2012
    16. I ordered Evan, Oriental Ver. I had a hard time deciding between Daniel and Evan-Oriental!
       
      #36 nancy_schroeder_ca, Jul 8, 2012
    17. I'm with you there nancy! I kept going back forth between the same two guys. ^^
       
      #37 PacificBlue, Jul 8, 2012
    18. Too bad we are on opposite sides of the country! We could have gotten them together if we lived close to each other!
       
      #38 nancy_schroeder_ca, Jul 8, 2012
    19. Well, I'm hoping with the free head event that perhaps we get the other head we were looking at as well. Fingers crossed!

      It is too bad! It seems like all the doll people I would like to hang out with in the US are in California.
       
      #39 PacificBlue, Jul 9, 2012
    20. *lurking* I have decided that Evan is gorgeous and I might need one. >_>;
      Just, he'd be way too tall for the character, so I'll have to hunt down a shorter body...I wonder if Supia NS might be a semi-close match? Hrmmm~ *goes back to staring at Evan pics* -w-
       
      #40 Eldurwen, Aug 6, 2012
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