3D Printed Ball Jointed Doll Figure Project
My Goal:
- To create a male BJD in my own personal style/aesthetic - a mature-looking MSD/YOSD sized sculpt. Eventually Id love to print him in SD size someday but I am limited by my 3D Printer's small buildplate for now.
- To make molds & castable versions in poured resin, should others show interest in the sculpt and wish to have one of their own. As 3D printing a few is fine, but casting resin is sturdier and more economical.
- To create different heads that will fit on this body!
- Maybe sculpt castable wigs too, since I hate finding tiny wigs!
Softwares Used:
Head - Modeled in Metasequoia via point-modeling
Body - Sculpted in ZBrush Core, Jointed in ZBrush Core
Chitubox - Slicing and supporting the model
Photon Slicer - To export compatible file-type for my 3D Printer
Materials used:
Anycubic Photon 3D Printer (Prints in resin via UV curing method.)
Anycubic Green UV Printing Resin
Dragon Resin White Opaque Printing Resin
Initial body sculpt took over a week of solid work in ZB
The 3D Printed doll, now with hair!
The initial body sculpt for the beginnings of a 3D Printable doll
Sculpting detail in ZBrush
Head was modeled via Point-Modeling method in Metasequoia
After many hours of work, the body is mostly jointed via Boolean operations in ZBrush Core
Setting up the parts for print in the slicer software
The 3D Printed parts, strung together with Elastic
The 3D Printed parts, strung together with Elastic
Making changes to the leg for better look and poseability
Head Mesh, created in Metasequoia via Point Modeling
The Head Mesh imported into ZBrush and sliced via boolean operations
And example of posability.
Version 2 leg
Version 3 legs