What matters more, a doll's appearance or posing abililties?

Personally, the doll's appearance is more important to me. I mean, I'd like them to pose well too, but if they don't it's not a big deal to me, I'd rather have a pretty doll than one that poses well, if I had to choose one or the other.

 

Their appearance plays a greater role, but I wouldn't go for a single-body if I wasn't absolutely in love with the doll's appearance. I need a nice balance between the two. :]

 

I want all of it, but always go with the sculpt I love best. You can always modify a doll's posing ability (I've turned a resinsoul body into a first-rate poser, anything is possible), but you can't try to make yourself happy with a sculpt you don't really love.

 

It's all about the face for me. However, I lucked out for falling head over heels for a Fairyland doll, and they make extremely posable dolls.

 

Equal poseablity and looks. I find if the doll doesnt pose well I will rarely play with it, which makes me feel bad.. I have a few that dont pose well and so dont get that much camera time, I still love them though.

 

For me, posability is the last thing on my mind when getting a doll. I go for the doll with an appearance I like.

 

I think appearance is far more important than poseability - with a little restringing, sueding and wiring, even weird funky dolls can pose a lot better (at least I assume haha.. though sueding helped my boy tons! Have yet to test wiring though)!

 

Definitely the face/appearance comes first!

 

It's totally about the face with me. The body, I can tweak or replace if I have problems with it, but I fall in love with the face.

 

.x. personally, I'd do a hybrid. it's the doll's headmold that calls to me, but posability plays a huge role in daily life with the doll. .w. The looks of the body don't matter much to me, I can just mod or cover with clothes... so as long as it poses well and has a pretty face, I'm taken.

 

This totally depends on what you want to do with your doll. I purchased a doll that was beautiful but the posing was poor. I never bonded with the doll because of this one issue! I could not believe how much it bothered me. I sold her and purchased one of the best posers out there and now I am thrilled. Granted, I liked my new dolls face and with the correct face up she was perfect for me.

I thought I was alllll about face and discovered that posing and body were more important in the end for me. Afterall, much of your doll's character can be defined by her posture. Just like with real people, character is partially defined by they way they hold themselves.

Anyhow. That is my 2 cents. I would take the time to really really think about how you want to express the personality of your doll.

 

For me, appearance definitely comes first. My first (and currently only doll) is single-jointed with a face and body sculpt that I find very beautiful. I have wired him to improve his posing. He is still not the best poser, but that doesn't really bother me because I find him to be very beautiful and photogenic.

I've seen from owner pictures that the Soom Glots and Glatis are extremely poseable. I just ordered my Glot because I thought she was pretty and fit a character that I wanted to have in doll form. So the fact that she'll probably be a good poser is only an added bonus for me. I would not have been upset if owner pics showed that they were horrible posers, because that's not what I look for in a doll.

That is just me, though. Like many people have already said, I would agree with the idea of making a hybrid if you're concerned about getting a poseable body and a head you love.

 

Usually I'm all about the face sculpt and posing is secondary, but I recently received a resinsoul long that could NOT pose. I found I wasn't really playing with him or sewing for him as much as I wanted to because he flopped around so much. I felt bad because he's a doll that means a LOT to me given that some of my closest friends pooled their money for it. Luckily I have another friend who is pretty much a dolly miracle healer who modded him into submission, and now he's perfect and even more special because a close friend did the modifications, I look at him and I think of my friends and how great they are.

The moral of that longwinded and overly mooshy story: I'm mostly about appearance until the posing is REALLY bad. Like not being able to sit up when propped against a wall bad. It's tough to ignore that.

 

I do believe that the appearence is sometimes given by the posing abilities, best example in the case of the new DollShe dollies, who are simply fascinating to look at

I would say, for me, that I prefer appearence over posing abilities. I am mad about one-piece torsos, because they are so beautiful to look at...! Though it might limit a doll's posing a bit, I don't think I really mind... ^_^

 

Appearance for me!
Because for this you can never make up while you can still strike some wonderful poses with seemingly less posable dolls. For example, look at Tonner dolls promotional photos - they are ball-jointed fashion dolls but with very few joints, and you can still present them in a most appealing way!

And, as others have stated before me, you can always mix-and-match bodies and heads; get the head with appearance most pleasing for you and body with most suitable joints.

 

I find I fall in to appearance, before the customs I bought dolls I liked the look of, after I've made hybrids because I still loved a head from one place but wanted a better posing body.

My preference is posable arms over legs so I have a few people with great wrist and elbow movement who stand around a lot.

 

I would say go for the one who you really love the best, the prettiest. After all, if you cannot find a way to pose it a certain way it just forces you to be more creative which I actually think is more fun. Plus if you get a different one and regret not getting the face you fell in love with, what then?

 

I will chose first one.
single or doulbe joined doesnt matter to me that much..

 

Depending on how you dress your doll, I would go for better moving ability if the bodyline is mostly covered with clothes.

 

For me, face comes first!