feelings towards hybrids

I think hybrids allow for even more freedom for doll owners/ artists. We should able to express yourself through customizing a doll really however you want. If it looks good why complain?

 

If you feel a hybrid would better suit your needs than the default combination offered by the parent company, I say go for it!

I've been considering getting a CP girl body for my Elfdoll girl, since the Elfdoll body is a) the old version, b) harder to dress successfully and c) longer-looking in the torso.​

 

I think hybrids are great. Sometimes you love the head of one doll but hate their body. Why not get the best of both worlds and create your perfect doll?

 

I'm all for it. I have a couple of hybrids--Dollstown Soph and Soom Syen both on Impldoll bodies--and I plan to make another one when I can afford a body for my DIM Kassia head. Partly it's pricing--I couldn't afford a whole Syen, for example--and partly aesthetics. I want a more womanly body for my Kassia, so I wouldn't get a DIM Love body even if money wasn't an issue.
My DT Soph was kind of a happy accident--I had her as a floating head, waiting for a DT elf body to pop up on the MP, when a friend suggested I try her on my Impldoll Erica's body. Long story short, she looked so perfect that I sold my Erica head and Soph is on that body full-time. I wouldn't change her back--I love her on that body. So hybrids = good.

 

i love hybrids. my first doll was one and half of my dolls were bought separately then matched for my own customizing. it's just another way for me to get a one of a kind doll that is exactly as i like it.

 

I love hybrids when they look in proportion.....I can't see anything wrong with them at all

 

I personally don't have any hybrids at the moment but I think when the body and head are in proportion, they look great! I noticed that some companies also intentionally make skintones to match other companies than their own so that collectors can hybrid them.

 

Most of the large dolls I'm planning/working on are hybrids. I think it gives greater flexibility both economically and aesthetically

 

My friends and I play a lot of table-top wargames. We often do what is called "kitbashing," where we take commercial miniature parts for standard miniatures and mix them up to make new, unique, and custom miniatures. Kitbbashing among the table-top wargaming community is not only common, but encouraged, as everyone benefits: the player gets an outlet for his creativity, and companies make more sales, as kitbashing can actually be more expensive, as the person will often use parts from several miniature sets. I see doll hybrids the same way: Everyone benefits. The owner gets exactly what he or she is looking for in a doll, and more than one doll company gets to make a sale from that same person. It's all win-win. I imagine that the doll artist is probably just happy people are buying their pieces, at all, especially with the condition the current economy is in.

 

I love that hybrids are possible. A lot of the time I'll adore a head but hate the body it comes with, or I'll like a body but not be terribly fond of the heads the company makes for it. So yeah, I'll gladly mix and match to make that perfect doll.

 

im all for hybrids gives you a more wide arrange of ideas and such i mean for me personally i know I will have 2 of em by the end of the year. because for me some bodies from certain companies just dont cut it for me ^^;

 

I did answer this awhile ago I'm pretty sure, and at the time I had one hybrid doll, and I ended up selling her parts. I made another one, and ended up selling his parts, too. I'm trying a third time, but took a bit different approach, as I bought parts from the same company this time (body is far older than the head though), so perhaps it is kind-of cheating, but it works best for me out of my attempts. I don't have anything against hybrid dolls in general, and but I've come to realize that at present I want my dolls to feel "whole" and I have to be able to reach that "wholeness" for the hybrid to be successful for me. It either feels right or it doesn't.

 

Personally I don't believe for a minute any sculptor would be offended if you stick another head/body to their body/head.
Everyones taste is different, and that's why most companies ell heads and bodies seperately, right?
As long as the color matches, I say Go for it!
I have more hybrids than I do whole dolls.
To me, the body is equally important as the head, so I wouldn't even consider buying a whole doll of which I don't like the body.
I can't live with single jointed dolls, really!

My MOST Frankensteined doll is my Rockabilly Soony girl, Cherry-Sue, which has the Luts Delf head and torso, Luts Type 3 double joint arms and legs, Soom high heeled feet and Feeple hands!
The colors all match 100% and you couldn't even tell she was such an extensive hybrid.

 

I don't think sculptors would be offended either. That's kind of the point of these dolls, as has been said, that they're so incredibly customizable, it's really rather difficult NOT to eventually find exactly what you're looking for.

I'm going to end up with several hybrids, though I've only the one (technically two) right now. For me, most of it is I either A) dislike an aspect of the company body so much that I know it would never stop bugging me and thus drive me insane B) want something with better poseability or C) need a body that will fit the character of the doll, and the company body just won't cut it.

There's also, with my SD list, at least, the matter of heights. If I can take one head, and put it on a shorter body, then I will. I'm not going to settle for something just because I'm afraid of offending the sculptor. And I'm kind of...OCD about getting my dolls as character-specific as I can, and if one is a certain amount shorter than another, than I need a body to match. That's the amazing thing, I think, that you can have so much lee-way when designing your dolls. It takes some (in my case, TONS) of research, but it's all worth. Hybridizing is just one more way we get to express ourselves.

So go for it.

 

I'm all for hybrids. I own some and will probably end up with more in the future. I have a K-doll head on a Delf body (though hybrids for companies that only sell heads is unavoidable :3), a Soom Heliot on a 70cm Resinsoul body, a Juri '06 on a B&G boy body, and a Musedoll Re-an head on a Dream of Doll body. XD My two tinies are the only dolls I have that aren't hybrids.

I love that you can take a head you love and put it on a body you like better or piece parts together that work better for specific characters. I think some people can find more happiness with their dolls when they can get them exactly how they want them rather than feeling constrained by what's already offered or put together by the companies. ^^

 

My vote went for "go for it! greater room for creativity!". Three of my twelve BJD are hybrids and a fourth one is on the way of becoming hybrid too. In all the cases they are hybrids to match the body features of the characters they are. In my opinion when you do so it does not mean you think the artist did not make a good work. It just means it does not fit your BJD like you would like to.

 

I LOVE love LOVE a hybrid... the more parts the better.

 

Ah, I adore hybrids! Customization is part of the hobby, so being able to pick-and-choose parts from different dolls just seems natural.

 

absolutely go for hybrid!I love then, all my dolls beside tow are hybrid!

 

if hybriding insult the artist, modding is even worst then! you DESTROYED the precious sculpt!!!! D:
personnaly, i am addicted to hybriding dolls so OF COURSE i don't see anything wrong with it! ^_^ (neither with modding)
I want the doll to feel the doll is worth what I paid for it.I want to really be able to love it. if i'm head over toes for the head, but really can't stand the body, it's just not gonna work :/ i'm getting reeeeeally capricious with bodies! it needs to look good, have shoulders wide enough so the doll won't look bubble headed, have a minimum poseability. (need a torso joint that can bend foward to help sitting properly. spread legs. move ankles. lots of movement range for the elbow)
IF it don't have this, then i get mad at the doll and end up selling it.