{"id":781,"date":"2019-06-02T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T15:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/?p=781"},"modified":"2021-07-09T01:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T00:23:44","slug":"sympathetic-doll-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/sympathetic-doll-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Sympathetic doll design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a post for anyone wondering about why they don\u2019t\/didn\u2019t click with overly \u201cgrinny\u201d dolls.<\/p>\n

Sympathetic doll design hinges on the eyes and it\u2019s so easy to mess up…<\/p>\n

The test is to place your finger over the mouth and see if a doll still looks happy or if she now looks bored or distressed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s down to the half-millimetre in the upper cheeks and side of the eyes, eye highlights and eyebrow placement. Kinda like celebrity fan art, it misses the sweet spot if it isn\u2019t JUST right.<\/p>\n

Bratz and Monster High mostly have smiling eyes and neutral lips whereas Barbie occasionally has a big smile but unsmiling eyes which then reads as a fake smile. A few of the new Draculauras had sad\/distressed eyes.<\/p>\n

OK, photos to illustrate:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a Desiree with the eyes printed slightly too high so her upper cheeks no longer register as smiling and her eyebrows are too low to look relaxed<\/p>\n

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\nOn to the most used blonde barbies from the 80s til recently:<\/p>\n

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\nGeneration girl and 80s Superstar* were very prone to getting the eyes just slightly off: she\u2019s not unhappy just neutral.The dolls in green are gently smizing<\/p>\n

*90s superstar mostly found the right balance to look like her smile matched her eyes.\"\"The Carnivale seen above is smiling without smizing.<\/p>\n

This Superstar girl looks strained:<\/p>\n

\"\"This Mackie has a closed mouth and arched eyebrows but her eyes are happy and relaxed:\"\"<\/p>\n

Meet Maxie and Ashley: one is smiling with her eyes, one with her mouth:<\/p>\n

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\nSome people are quite happy with smiley dolls, others find it unnerving.\u00a0\u00a0 In certain european cultures, smiling is something you only do when you\u2019re really happy so a big toothy ultra bright white toothy smile can come across as slightly foreign and uncanny.<\/p>\n

This is a Liv doll: fantastic doll design except for the eyes that weren\u2019t quite aligned, too glarey and cheek bones too low to seem smiley:<\/p>\n

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\nlook how custom artists fixed that by changing the eye position and making the cheekbones look higher :\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

Compare and contrast with Bratzillaz who had naf body design, clothes, terrible hair and yet people clicked with them because the eyes were expressive and happy looking\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a post for anyone wondering about why they don\u2019t\/didn\u2019t click with overly \u201cgrinny\u201d dolls. Sympathetic doll design hinges on the eyes and it\u2019s so … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,80,46],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tuts","tag-design","tag-dolls","tag-eyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suppi.net\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}