Have you seen Fearbook Venus Mcflytrap? She has a pink+green afro! Similar to Honey Swamp from g1. It is only that one version of Venus which is unfortunate tho, yea.

Hi, no because this is Savannah Alexandras design and she might want to make something similar. I will have the smaller centaur at the end of the video (the Kenner Shimmer style one) up eventually probably.

Hi! I can totally relate to that. I'm working on making a video about my first bjd I have fully printed. I also procrastinated on my first one for a super long time (like. months. nearly a year) and wasn't even going to have it tested but I posted the prototype and someone sent me the resin print so I'm able to make adjustments and such. Between that BJD, which is part of my Takara projects, and the edits I've made to the dollightful bunny doll, I've learned a lot about 3D sculpting BJDs I would like to pass on!

oh and yes this is blender! It's a pretty complex program and it does have a sculpt mode but I don't use the sculpt as much as other modes.

thank you for the view and comment <3

the topology isn't that bad, for a piece I remeshed generously ^^;

@art-eroflore I belive. It is just my head, I feel urge to retopo everything that is high poly xd

@art-eroflore and btw I LOVE YOUR ART And that commend of my wasnt ment to be hate ir antyhing. I just like retopo

Not a silly question! I learned blender pretty recently. TBH none of the resources I learned from are for doll/toy making specifically but I can at least tell you the channels I preferred. I have a couple posts on my tumblr going over my shortcuts, I eventually want to make a video aimed at teaching people what I've learned but it has been put on hold ATM. Joey Carlino has an intro to blender video that moves pretty slowly and goes over a ton of basics, so I recommend that. BranSculpts 10-part tutorial has influenced my process the most, it's a LOT of videos but he does a much better job explaining than most people. Also, for toy design you don't need to do all of it (for 3D printing its not necessary to retopologize or create armatures). There is also a 2-part tutorial by Eve Sculpts that is easy to follow.

@ thank you so much for the info!! This is really helpful. I'll definitely take a look at those channels and check out your tumblr as well. I'll def keep an eye out for any tutorial videos you make in the future, but no rush or pressure at all. Always love the work you have time to share. Thanks again!!

Thank you! I've never had someone call my video cozy before thats very nice :3

could I? yes. will I? probably not anytime soon. I have a lot of other projects sorry! I actually do have some sketches of BJDs based on the Gems which I would love to model someday.

She could definitely make one-off customs, at least, if she had someone make the model and print it. I don't think resin printing itself is viable for a large scale operation (cost-wise), you'd need some sort of resin casting (given the time + expense it takes to resin print, plus the waste generated by making a ton of models that way would build up over time). She would probably be limited in the body types + face molds she could make, the amount of colors, and so on, although I know some people do on demand printing it is still relatively expensive. Although I can't pretend im perfectly knowledgeable, I don't have a resin printer myself but have done a lot of research! Moonlight Jewel for example had the Meeko dolls which were pre-ordered and resin-cast by a factory. But they were also very expensive to buy, and I think they didn't have paint when ordered.

@@art-erofloreI was actually thinking instead of resin casting since ik a lot of people do that, it could be better to just print them as needed. Like off the printer they’re the perfect size and such. I think a large scale operation would work with at least 2+ printers and doing it piece by piece so depending on what size printer you have you could do one print but it’s all a batch of heads, another print session is all arms, etc! I think it would make things more streamline and being that she mentioned wanting them to be like ongoing series dolls I’d imagine more than one being sold of each so you’d want to keep the files and sizing for each character separately. This allowing still for varying body types and such. Though I will say the different resin bodies might make clothes swaps hard if certain clothes are fitted for a skinner character and others for chubbier

Also wanted to add the supports from making the prints and any left over resin pieces can be reused for other things :D I’ve often done that whenever I print since I get wary of wasting supplies

just so you know this isn't a proper collab, I dont want anyone to get the wrong idea! I am just a fan :)

I assume you mean the fact the elbow instead of the shoulder is articulated on the front? And the fact that the stifle is not articulated on the back. When I was working recently on an anatomically-accurate g1 MLP body I spent some time trying to figure out how to make 4-part articulation work. Most articulated horse toys only use 3-part articulation, and I was wondering why until I realized adding the extra parts only veeeeery slightly changes the movement, especially on the front shoulder. The resulting shoulder and flank joints are very round (oval shaped) when simplified, hence why usually the shoulder is merged with the body and the stifle merged with the flank. I would say maybe adding the stifle is the only extra joint I would add to an articulated horse. None of the MLP toys have accurate articulation to a horse anyways; I think the new gens have 2-part and the old ones have 1-part.

@art-eroflore oh no, sorry ! i didn't mean mlps toys, but the show itself because i'm so used to seeing all the joints being used in the animation, it feels a little weird to not see them all in a similar figure but yeah, i can only imagine trying to achieve complex articulation while maintaining simple production and good shapes would be tough

@@yume5441 ah yeah, well to be fair the MLP shows, especially the newer ones, also cheat a lot at horse articulation too. so its difficult to balance what people are used to seeing, what is practical, and what is realistic

The doll I was referring to is an anthro human/horse, but a family friend told me it looked like a minotaur because of the horse head. It is not actually referencing the greek myth!

Woah, you should post an animation test or something then :3 It would be cool to see more Centaura characters!

thank you! I am still learning but hoping to make a more tutorial-esque beginner friendly video at some point using what I've learned.

I read a review of the mermaid line from them which said they're pretty nice quality clothes and such too. I really gotta make extra hands for all my 3D models, its something I've been meaning to do.

thanks for the tips! I do know about the dyntopo modifier, I used it a lot early on when I was learning to do blender but I guess I just kind of forgot about it over time, especially since you can't use it with things that are already texture painted so it kept being inconvenient (and it always turned itself off... and would get laggy if I looked at it wrong). But I'll keep the accumulate settings in mind. tbh I tend to circumvent the sculpting tools in favor of editing mode ^^;

so kind of you to include me as a niche youtuber u-u

ty ty! Glad its not only me who feels that way a bit, I know I got a bit rambly there too but I have feelings about it, yknow?

tysm <3

Her blog was recommended to me relatively recently and I read through the whole archive in the last like. month!

oh no, my one fear: stolen valor!