What if our dolls had Jointed Fingers?

I'd also love them with option hands, but I'd probably always cover them up with gloves. But even if that was the case, how awesome would it be? to be able to HOLD things. to point at things, to flip people off. =P

I'd love to see this become readily available =D

 

You can imagine headlines at your favorite doll site reading:
"For a special introductory price of of only $200!"
Just kidding:wink: , want some cake?

Sera

 

I wouldn't mind a pair of extra optional hands like this...so long as I could put gloves on them. However, I wouldn't want them to be my doll's default hands. I have to agree with omichao...I just don't like the way they look. For me it's not just about posing, but that the doll must be aesthetically pleasing. There must be a certain balance between the two. Too many joints is a bit distracting to me.

 

I would love jointed fingers, but yes the probaly would be a pain to string.
It's funny as when my sister anoys me and I have Roxie on my lap I put up her hand and say, if she could she would be making a hand gesture right now.

 

Cool thread!! I have thought about this a lot after seeing a ball jointed doll that had fully jointed hands and feet. It had a very robodoll kind of look to it but I really liked it.
Also, I think if the hands were only jointed at the first knuckle the appearance would not be as aesthetically unapealing. Make a fist and look at how your knuckled bulge out. If you had a skilled sculptor with a good sense of form and function I really think it could be pulled off.
Of course this does not take away the fact that it would be complicated, but I appreciate little details like that.

 

You can find piccies of the jointed hands here: http://dollsoom.com/shop/step1.php?number=2808

But I think we all know what normal hands look like!

So...Which do you like better?

(I personally prefer normal hands because even though the posability of the jointed hands is awesome, they're just...ugly!)

And I'll be back in the afternoon, till then, keep posting! Or don't, but whatever!

 

I love my boy's ball jointed hands and I don't think they look ugly at all. SOOM did a fantastic job making their jointed hands look quite natural. I wouldn't want them for all of my dolls though just because they are quite an advanced feature and it takes some care and consideration to make sure they're posed nicely.

 

I do think the jointed hands are really neat. <: I've always liked the idea of changing the hand poses on my dolls because hands are so expressive.

But I do still love the normal hands because they look so soft and beautiful.

Really, I can't say I like one better than the other.

 

I love them, I always wanted there to be ball-jointed fingers even when I just found bjds. Heck, I wanted to learn to sculpt and make my own in fact. XD Soom and Unidoll beat me to it.

Don't have any yet, but its definitely in the plan for at least one future doll. The thing that normal hands have over them is strength.

 

I like both.

The jointed ones for poseability, the "normal" ones for the smooth wholeness of the look. I'd happily have both for all my dolls if I seriously thought I would ever get around to changing them over instead of whatever pair weren't being used just sitting untouched in a box.

Teddy

 

I've moved this out of Debate and into General Discussion.

For me, the dolls have always been about ARTICULATION!!! That's what attracted me initially and keeps me involved. I love the fact that the dolls are so articulated and can be posed so realistically, so...when the jointed hands began to be released and I thought I might just hyperventilate at this next step into articulated perfection! I have both the Soom and the Unidoll jointed hands - I do NOT think they are ugly at all! - and find that the jointed hands combined with the Bermann bodies that are already more articulated/jointed than the regular Dollshe bodies, create the Perfect Articulated Male!!!

 

What Zag said. LOL

I love Edgar's jointed hands. I love how expressive it makes him. I like regular too, but yeah...

Jointed!

 

I love the Soom jointed hands, just from an engineering point of view, even though none of my own crew wear them.

I also love well-sculpted non-articulated hands. So... Win for me either way!

 

I like both of them as well, however sometimes the jointed hands can look a bit like skeleton bones imo.

 

They's be extremely handy - no pun intended - if you used your doll as a model for drawing and if, like me, drawing hands gives you trouble.

 

hehe that is exactly what I was going to say! I like the idea of being able to change the shape of the hands, but to me they just look a little too skeletal...I would rather buy a bunch of different normal hands and change them up every once and a while if I want a different pose.

 

I adore them and wish I had some.

 

i perfer normal
although those ball jointed ones are exquiiisit
just amazing, i'd love to fiddle with them for a fuew hours

: )

 

I love and hate them.
I like the look of normal hands more because of the lack of joints. And I think it's honestly the joints being so close together that makes me kinda go Ew. I have to agree with those that say they're skeletal. Amazing at the same time though. Bleh. Prolly never get them. Too wishy washy on if I really like em enough or not.