There might be many ways to start BJD poduction. For this time, I chose curving the block of resin. The resin came from the NG parts of Thaasa body just as material to curve. To grasp the image of the size and total propotion, some of the part, which will not survive, are arranged on the picuture. Hands , feet and some other parts would be newly made later. The head is KAOLI. There is a possiblity that I might make new head for the body. But I found these Pricco heads are also good for the body.
Torso is the core parts for BJD production, I think.Upper torso and lower torso are curved further. The breasts are piled by polyestel putty, and curved roughly. The hip was curved a little bit smooth.
Accurate thigh joint unit was made, and installed into the thigh. Sculpt of the hip was improved as slim.
Parts for knee joint unit was made. More parts are needed to make up the unit.
It took three hours to make these tiny four parts, it contains sphere surface.
Knee joint development was continued. Sphere was sculpted using lathe. Second shows in the middle of Knee unit making. Third photo shows after knee joint units are installed into thigh parsts. Hip joints are also tuned up. Hip joint development and knee joint unit installing should be done cooperative, in order to obtain the best angle of knee joints. Hip sculpt was improved a little bit.
Before connecting leg and knee joint units, feet are made. Knee joints , legs and ancle joints should be developed at the same time. Hands are also made. They are sculpted from hardened block of polyethtel patty.
Parts for ancle joints are made. Determining the diameter of the joint sphere is hard thing. Big diameter is good for posing stability, but smaller is good for better body line. Smaller diameter was chosen today, but it might be renewed if not satisfied. It's try and try.
(I sometime feel, my dolls can be called non-power-source robot, from body aspect. But they are definitely dolls by that they have mind and alive.)
Ancle joint units are made. Knee joints, legs and knee joints are combined together. Legs were sculpted raughly. Some works on knee joints are remaining. Leg sculpt wold be much better in the next work.
Knee joint was re-designed as double joints. Detail was wrote on the Photoshop screen.
Two parts are sculpted according to the detailed design.
I really hope this design offers beautiful outlook or curve.
Double joints were installed to knee . It was one full days work, and the output was satisfacory. Sculpting of Thigh and legs are not completed. They might be sculpted slim later. As rubber string holes have not been digged, the sitting function is not confirmed. Sacrifising the outline begins with the rubber holes.
Lower arms were sculpted roughly. All parts appeared anyway.There are many points whose scult should be refined. They might be done after rubber stringing.
Aculate spheres were installed to the ball position of the upper arm parts. The ball hollows of the upper torso part was moved in order to make them symetric, and the shoulder line natural. The upper arms were sculped slim and natural, and shortened to make the total body proportion nice. hip joints were tuned a very little. The total sculpt of the legs were refined a little.
I think rough sculpting was done, and the time has come to dig rubber holes.
Rubber string holes are digged in upper&lower torso, thighs,upper& lower arms. hooks are temporary installed to hands.
Strong rubber string was chosen for the head-to-feet line. Slim rubber string was temporary chosen for the hand to hand line. In order to get high stability, strong rubber is better, but the rubber slit in the balls would be too wide, and the outlook might be worse. It's a hard decision.
All joints on this photo are tuned a little. Thigh joints are the key point of standing solid. It might need days to finish.
Total sculpt of left leg was refined to make it slim and get the ability to bend the knee joint.
The left knee joint was bended almost 180degree, but it's not enough yet. More tuning of leg sculpt and knee joint is needed.
As the sculpt of knee joint when bended is not satisfactory, knee sculpt will be redesigned a little.
Knee sculpt and leg sculpt are completed. Off cause details would be re-sculpted many many time until completion.
First right legs was sculpted as left leg was done yesterday. Then, as yesterdays look was not satisfactory, especially because the angle between thigh and leg when bent was odd, each knee joint was cut from the thigh and the leg parts. Thighs, knee joints and leg parts were re-connected. knee projections were molded and sculpted. Other many tiny symphonies of sculpt and functions were done around the knees.
Thigh sculpts seems to need tuning, but it would be done after hip joints are completed. Most diffcult sage was cleared anyway. The two second diffcult jobs are hipjoints and rubber hole digging of the knee joint.
Rubber holes of upper thighs, lower thighs, knees and legs are diged. Knee parts are also made rubber slits. First two photos show the digging process of knee part. Table lathe functions as milling machine here with special attachments.
The output was very much satisfactory. The knee joints fuctioned as I expected. When bent, upper joint moves first, and lower second. Both joints have abilities/posibilites of stabilty with future ajustments. I am sooooo satisfied with that output, even thought there needs many ajustments to obtain the best functions. But, the most serious work has ended ^^ ^^ ^^)Y.
As hip joints are not completed, Fragille cannot show the sitting abilities yet. But ,all parts of Fragille are connected by the rubber strings, anyway. Very impressive time.
Hip joints were tuned successfully, and the rubber holes and slits were digged as expected. The second photo shows present Fragille connected by rubber strings. It's on the top of the mountain. 50% of the development was done. Going down from the top to the bottom is waiting for me.
Even if Fragille's joints are not tuned to the best, she want to show her functions a little. Basically all functions are same as Thaasa's. But some would be a little bit better than Thaasa's.
From now, many many joint tunings, sculpt tunings, and finishings are waiting. It's still a long way.......
