Give her eyes and she turns into a spoiled brat...

[thanate]

She has turned into a fiery maenad-creature who doesn't think she needs clothing either. Oh yeah? What're you looking at? Just because I have to stick my elbow in my ear to put my hands on my hips doesn't make me funny, and I'll punch anyone who thinks it does, d'ya hear?


I apologize for the less than stellar photography, but here are the two ladies side by side. Soom Mecha Angel in normal skin (Lady) and Soom Super Gem in cream white (Beryl/wild creature). The super gem body is actually a bit more exaggerated-- larger breasts, slimmer torso joint, although I think this is to bring her into line with the other similarly sized dolls so that she can share clothing. The limb proportions (with below the knee/elbow notably longer than above it), lines of body texture, neck, naval, and hand and foot sculpts are all very nearly identical.


Detail of hands; the angles are slightly different, but perhaps you can see better what I'm talking about.


Sanded, sueded, reassembled, and adorned with temporary eyes (Soom sent me these as a "free gift" when I got Lady. They're a bit odd-- very blocky/pixelated, but they work for the moment.) Of course, put them in and she starts glaring at you.


...and hair...


Lady: Hello, little sister. I'm sorry to break it to you, but I'm afraid they make us wear clothes around here.



...And I came back from fencing to find a fox standing in the middle of the driveway. Yay wild things!

Comments

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Waif is actually perfectly decently proportioned, at least for a skinny bjd. I think it's just the sculptor who does the Mecha Angel and Super Gem lines, and apparently has really odd notions of aesthetics.

Lady isn't *horribly* badly proportioned; it's mainly just the thing with the limbs being on backwards. She's very elongated, but within the realm of normal stylization. The problem is just when you start trying to pose the arms and they don't angle right because the elbow is off. And then the super gem body is like a caricature of the larger one. Actually, one of the reasons I don't have a normal girl doll is that I kept looking at 60 cm girl bodies and not liking the stylization. Fortunately, with a strange-sheep-maenad creature, it works much better.