Is your doll based off an existing chara?

My dolls all have their own personalities
I have some characters of my stories who I'd love to see dollyfied, but that would be a mission imposible sadly enough. (you know sculpt wise, insane wigs etc)
I tried to blend in some of their character traits/personalities, but my dolls refuse to accept it
So maybe I'll have to do it the other way 'round.

 

What are peoples thoughts on character dolls whether they be based on your own character, someone else's character, a TV, manga or book character?

 

Well, I like when Dolls cosplay a character from Anime Manga or game. It's cool too see that ^.^ I even recently thought about buy two dolls so I could make them look like two character from a favorite book series of mine.

However, for evey doll I get I make up a character them. I only have one doll so far, but I plan on getting three. I would love to make doll characters of my friends but I fear I wouldn't do the character justice.

I saw your thread ealier. So yeah o.o

 

There's already a thread on this. While many people are fine with it, there's a portion of people who think that if you're not using an original character it is just mooching off of someone else's creativity. Also, unless you say EVERY single time that you mention or post pictures of your dolls, you're verging on a copywrite issue.

 

All my dolls need to be a character, or I don't bond with them too well. That being said, not all the characters are my own creation, though most of them are. But many of my chars are from role-playing, and so I have chars that belong in the story, but aren't my own.

And, sometimes a few of them will cosplay as other characters from literature or movies. Though...since the minimees, I don't have to do that so much anymore because I have the character as the character himself.

 

I'm not very good at creating my own characters. I do have a few, but I don't fiddle with them in my mind or draw them too often. But it would be nice to have dolls of them. So, no, I don't create my own characters. I look at dolls and think they're gorgeous and "oooh, I want one!" but if I don't have a character in mind, I won't buy it.
My first doll is going to be exclusively Tsuzuki. That's what I'm getting the Camine for. For me, it's about having a beautiful and physical tribute to a character I love, and aldo a doll I can use to dress up instead of cosplaying. I'd been wary of BJDs for a while, but thought that I'd make one into Tsuzuki if I ever got one. And now I'm going through with it

(I just never thought I'd get hooked on the rush and want dolls of other characters, too xD; )

 

Think "character dolls" are great. It's just one of the many ways for people to show their creativity. Being an RPer and what not I absolutely love reading people's character profiles for their dolls and what not. My own has a personality of his own but at the same time a bit of me is in him.
When I look at original characters that people have created, it's more or less some thing that we would like to have. The reason why the character is that way is because it's something that would like to be or experience in my opinion. That may not always be the case but I think for the most part that's usually it.

 

I'm writing a story about dolls, and the characters in the story are all based on my dolls lol

 

At the moment non of my dolls are based on any character, but that will change as I'm saving up for two to be my original characters from a few years ago.

 

Any doll I get has to have a character of his own and I usually figure out which character that is before I've even bought the doll. Although my DoC did go through a character change one month after I got him, but that was because I decided I wanted a bigger doll for the character my DoC originally portrayed.

Anyway, Sieg is based off the Soul Calibur character Siegfried, but I'd say only in appearance and with parts of his background history added in. I won't say my Homme Kirill is an exact duplicate of Siegfried from Soul Cal since I'm not striving to make my doll exactly the same as the character from the game. He has blond hair, green eyes, the same name... but that's about it. I guess you could say my DoC is my take on Siegfried Schtauffen (i.e. my version of him). I do feel a little guilty taking someone else's creation (in this case Namco's Soul Team's character) and dollifying it, but I'm not making any profit out of what I'm doing and most people I show Sieg to don't even realize he's based off Siegfried from Soul Cal unless I tell them. I guess I'm paranoid though because I always specifically say to people that my doll is loosely based on a character from a game in case someone mistakenly thinks I'm claiming Siegfried Schtauffen to be my own creation or something

Now, Dieter, on the other hand, is a different matter altogether.

Dieter is my own creation so I don't feel paranoid at all when people ask me who my DoI is going to be based on when he arrives

 

i'm going to base my first resin off of some of Johnny Depp's characters......mehehe, dork much? DX

 

Only one of my three girls has her a previously existing character, which is my Sist.

The other two dollies are just 'themselves'.

 

My character are made into dolls because they help me when I am feeling up to doing art or stories about them. (And comics too.) They are just visual aide that I absolutely love and adore. I have had Nanashi for over 4 years now, he's one of my newest characters, but he's my favorite. I have had others though that have gone on for at least eight or nine years. I don't think I'd have had an appeal for the dolls if it wasn’t for my love of my OCs.

 

I do not have one yet... but it will represent a character that I created some time ago

I would love to buy a doll and let it evolve, but then I would not know if I would love it.... So I like it better to know exactly how it will be :<

 

I was originally going to let the dolls have their own personality once they arrived, but I keep finding myself attracted to ones that remind me of existing original characters I own. I see a sculpt and think "Ahh, this would be perfect as him.." so I'll probably go down that route when I buy them.

 

There are some character parts that all melted into my dolls but they're not based completly on an existing one. ^^
Some problems I would have with such a decision is that I would have to know every reaction he7she would make in certain moments. To imagine it would be hard because I want it to be this character and not to invent everything in my own way so it's kind of difficult for me. ^^

Laoky

 

My Zero is based off of....well Zero... lol from Vampire Knight....
Nabiki - my own character

 

I never intended to do so, but my doll looks a bit like Shizuma-Sama from Strawberry Panic! ( Anime series)
With her wig and her outfit ! O_o

Her Character IS based a little bit on that of Suigintou's. Only My Emily has a softer side too! ^__^

 

When I eventually get an MD Miho, he's going to be based off a RP character I created. One of my favorite originals

As for my Bory...he's not based off anything xD;; I may actually end up developing another character because of him.