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The Tokidoki style horn looks perfect to the Takara style! At first I thought the first set of wings looked good but something didn’t feel totally right then I saw the final set of wings and those look like a much better fit!Okay so ~ takara ponies update
So little takara is nooooot completely done only because I struggle with boolean meshes & im trying to combine the nose, head, and body with the separate little meshes I made for them so that they can fit together snugly. But she's CLOSE to being done, I think, in terms of sculpting. Unless I completely redo her for the third time.
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this is the first draft of big!takara! AKA full BJD anthro takara pony. I have not refined or sculpted anything yet. I learned a lot from doing the little one so this one went way faster and cleaner so far, although I didn't really use much reference so I'm not sure if its less similar, but I think that's okay. I'm getting pretty far from the og takara concept with this lol.
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SO, speaking of getting away from the takara concept, I was wondering if anyone wanted to give input into wings and horns :0
For both the big takaras BJD and the little 3D model I want to have a set of wings and horns to play with. I was in the mood to model fun stuff and I ended up making a few different sets of wings and two horns. Note that the wings aren't "smoothed"/ "sculpted" so they're not finalized but I think its clear what I'm going for with each set
This set is g1 My Little Pony wings + horn; generally more detailed than takara dolls. Might match the BJD body better than the little takara, the little takara would have smaller ones but same shape.
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This second one is a simpler horns and simpler wings but I tried to give the wings more of a proper wing shape. I don't love how vaguely shaped the g1 pony wings are, but the wings /do/ need to stay simple so I tried to give them the /\ of a birds bones very loosely. The wings remind me of an ice cream cone. The horn is the super simple type, more like on a tokidoki unicorn. I think that this matches better than the spiral one tbh.
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"I like my wings to have shape" I say, as I make the most chibi, shapeless wings ever to exist. Oh well, at least they're cute:
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Anyways feel free to give feedback on the wings/horn designs here ~ I'll try to get pics of some of them with the normal takara model, but I ended up modeling them all in the BJD takara file (note to self: fix the bloat on the takara file, I have way too many copies of each 3D model piece and the program keeps crashing)
Also- love the wings and horn additions!! As for wing suggestions, how about the G3/G3.5 wing style? They’re not entirely G1 style, but I think they’d look cute on the Takara!Okay so ~ takara ponies update
So little takara is nooooot completely done only because I struggle with boolean meshes & im trying to combine the nose, head, and body with the separate little meshes I made for them so that they can fit together snugly. But she's CLOSE to being done, I think, in terms of sculpting. Unless I completely redo her for the third time.
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this is the first draft of big!takara! AKA full BJD anthro takara pony. I have not refined or sculpted anything yet. I learned a lot from doing the little one so this one went way faster and cleaner so far, although I didn't really use much reference so I'm not sure if its less similar, but I think that's okay. I'm getting pretty far from the og takara concept with this lol.
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SO, speaking of getting away from the takara concept, I was wondering if anyone wanted to give input into wings and horns :0
For both the big takaras BJD and the little 3D model I want to have a set of wings and horns to play with. I was in the mood to model fun stuff and I ended up making a few different sets of wings and two horns. Note that the wings aren't "smoothed"/ "sculpted" so they're not finalized but I think its clear what I'm going for with each set
This set is g1 My Little Pony wings + horn; generally more detailed than takara dolls. Might match the BJD body better than the little takara, the little takara would have smaller ones but same shape.
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This second one is a simpler horns and simpler wings but I tried to give the wings more of a proper wing shape. I don't love how vaguely shaped the g1 pony wings are, but the wings /do/ need to stay simple so I tried to give them the /\ of a birds bones very loosely. The wings remind me of an ice cream cone. The horn is the super simple type, more like on a tokidoki unicorn. I think that this matches better than the spiral one tbh.
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"I like my wings to have shape" I say, as I make the most chibi, shapeless wings ever to exist. Oh well, at least they're cute:
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Anyways feel free to give feedback on the wings/horn designs here ~ I'll try to get pics of some of them with the normal takara model, but I ended up modeling them all in the BJD takara file (note to self: fix the bloat on the takara file, I have way too many copies of each 3D model piece and the program keeps crashing)
Oh I JUST realized I never replied to this post and I meant to!This is such a cool project!! can’t wait to see the result!
I also happen to have a 3D printer (FDM), so I’d absolutely love to play around with the files if you ever decide to distribute/sell them!
Also- love the wings and horn additions!! As for wing suggestions, how about the G3/G3.5 wing style? They’re not entirely G1 style, but I think they’d look cute on the Takara!
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Hi! I'm planning on providing the files to anyone who's interested in testing them, I'd love the help with some of the fiddlier bits of that process! I don't have a 3D printer myself but I might have mentioned I was going to try and get them printed somewhere like the library near me which has a filament printer and you pay just for materials- but I have no idea how much they would be willing to help with making the blender file print-able.I absolutely love this, totally adorable!
@Prince-Aei may be able to give some good advice / input!
i’m also experienced with both filament and resin printing and could help you out with the files, tinkering and test printing!
This is looking amazing!Hi! I'm planning on providing the files to anyone who's interested in testing them, I'd love the help with some of the fiddlier bits of that process! I don't have a 3D printer myself but I might have mentioned I was going to try and get them printed somewhere like the library near me which has a filament printer and you pay just for materials- but I have no idea how much they would be willing to help with making the blender file print-able.
Besides that, I'm also not super confident with the joints, because I dont know how much "room" each ball and socket needs! I've also haven't been sculpting to size, which I think doesn't matter cosmetically but when it comes to the ball and sockets, I'm not measuring out the distance between the ball and sockets... which might bite me in the butt when it comes to printing these, especially because blender doesnt have collision so I can't tell if they're clipping through the sockets when I move them around (actually maybe blender has a collision feature that i dont know how to turn on)
Listen, this may be because I’m someone who got into MLP long after being in the Furry community for years. But! These Anthro dolls look, so very precious! They remind me of Magic Mixlings a little! I utterly adore them! One of the reasons I really enjoy Takara ponies is because they are like little Sylvanian families / tiny fashion dolls but a cute pony instead! :O so you’ve really nailed that here! The artwork for them too is just so perfect! I always felt like G4 Rarity would translate really perfectly to these as well! Our own little fashionista! I’ve only drawn Takara Ponies once (I created this for the ThankYou page of the UK PonyCon con book! I always try to diversify the pony gens seen in the conventions materials!) I really need to draw them more as I didn’t quite get the look down! It’s really nice to find more people talking about them who know what they are, I don’t have any good advice for your project aside from:I got a little distracted this week and also my wrists have been hurting, so I haven't been working on the 3D model. But I thought yall might be interested in the /extension/ of this project because i need to make every project into 3 projects.
Remember how I said it would be funny if I made a takara 3D model with ALL the joints? uh yeah so i sketched it
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and I liked it so much this is gonna be like the part 2 of the project.
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also the reason my wrist hurts is probably because i drew all of these
Anyways yeah I really love anthro dolls and I really liked the idea of making takaras with more anthro-ish bodies. Hopefully pony purists wont think im warping the spirit of the original takaras or anything, and this counts as on topic for the thread. I also want to model little horns and wings on both the bigger models and the original (hopefully thats not blasphemy, i think it would look really cute!)
i ended up remodeling her and shes looking okay, although i need to adjust the nosebridge a bit (and finish the joints). 3D modeling from a character reference while trying to be accurate is hard. I ended up avoiding references for the most recent bit of fiddling with the model, trying to make it just look nice on its own ; I also had to make the cut at the neck and that caused me to thin the body out (the neck hole needs to be exactly round so the head can turn); looks like i should round out the body more, or else maybe the head should be smaller? And from the additional references above, i maybe should have made the ears bigger. I think i may have made the head too domed and the nose too far out, if i reduce that size a bit it may look closer to the original.
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Thank you for the kind words! And nice little takara banner! I only just learned of these like last month right before I created this thread- I didn't really know how rare/uncommon they were until I started looking around into collectors forums and stuff. I had tried to create a calico critter sized BJD a while back so it felt like a good challenge.Listen, this may be because I’m someone who got into MLP long after being in the Furry community for years. But! These Anthro dolls look, so very precious! They remind me of Magic Mixlings a little! I utterly adore them! One of the reasons I really enjoy Takara ponies is because they are like little Sylvanian families / tiny fashion dolls but a cute pony instead! :O so you’ve really nailed that here! The artwork for them too is just so perfect! I always felt like G4 Rarity would translate really perfectly to these as well! Our own little fashionista! I’ve only drawn Takara Ponies once (I created this for the ThankYou page of the UK PonyCon con book! I always try to diversify the pony gens seen in the conventions materials!) I really need to draw them more as I didn’t quite get the look down! It’s really nice to find more people talking about them who know what they are, I don’t have any good advice for your project aside from:
Keep going! I really want to see these!
I hope one day to own some kind of Takara style pony, no matter if it’s original or not! I’d love to see more of this fashion Anthro pony idea come into MLP from fans and honestly? Hasbro!
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Here’s that artwork I mentioned ^ Wish I’d had this resource at the time as Google images is only so helpful to find photos of them! I guess, when I next attempt to draw them? I know where to look for references!
Oh wow I’m really happy you’re sharing the file for these guys ;w; They look so lovely and cute and I think I would love to try printing them sometime (I might be able to get access to my library’s 3d printer for example….) I know you said you haven’t had the opportunity to fully test them all but it’d be fun to try! If anyone does print these, would it be okay to take pictures of the printed takaras and then link back to this post to credit you/share where the files were from?Okay so!
I finally compiled things into a presentable file I can share with everyone here- I've never shared something like this so hopefully it works, I tested it in a private window and it downloaded fine.
This is just a .blender file, I don't know what the preferred type of filesharing is for these sorts of projects so I didn't convert it. I also left two versions of the pony in the file, the "un-subdivided" one and the one with all modifiers applied. In any case I learned how to sculpt based off game tutorials which place an emphasis on less polygons so I dunno, maybe the print needs even more polygons to come out smooth? *shrug* But for anyone with experience modifying files I wanted to leave more room to work.
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One of the reasons I got distracted was I just wanted to 3D sculpt other things after making big takara. The file link includes the baby takara model just for fun, even though I know fakies are more widely available (in both poses, too). The baby takara is also just two pieces instead of the nine pieces that the big takara is (the decorations on the face are just cosmetic, I put them there to give myself an idea of how they'd look). The wings/horns are also in the above file but they aren't combined with the meshes, sorry, I wasn't sure how I wanted to do that yet.
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I fully got distracted from compiling these files by the worst possible impulse which was to recreate all the not-specifically-pony items and friend characters directly from the catalog:
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I doubt anyone will want these or that I'll be able to print them given my limited printing options and most of it isn't done so that's why I took so long separating out everything from the copy of the file for sharing (I'm also suffering from large files because I'm bad at deleting stuff lol)
Anyways if anybody tests it out let me know if the link works and if the models are use-able for 3D printing. Although I know my library has its 3D printing thing im probably not going to do it soon since I'm super busy for the next couple weeks (hence: takara-pony-model-procrastination).
Yes! Please print/share as you want, just list credit! I'd love to see!Oh wow I’m really happy you’re sharing the file for these guys ;w; They look so lovely and cute and I think I would love to try printing them sometime (I might be able to get access to my library’s 3d printer for example….) I know you said you haven’t had the opportunity to fully test them all but it’d be fun to try! If anyone does print these, would it be okay to take pictures of the printed takaras and then link back to this post to credit you/share where the files were from?
Thank you for sharing!!Okay so!
I finally compiled things into a presentable file I can share with everyone here- I've never shared something like this so hopefully it works, I tested it in a private window and it downloaded fine.
This is just a .blender file, I don't know what the preferred type of filesharing is for these sorts of projects so I didn't convert it. I also left two versions of the pony in the file, the "un-subdivided" one and the one with all modifiers applied. In any case I learned how to sculpt based off game tutorials which place an emphasis on less polygons so I dunno, maybe the print needs even more polygons to come out smooth? *shrug* But for anyone with experience modifying files I wanted to leave more room to work.
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One of the reasons I got distracted was I just wanted to 3D sculpt other things after making big takara. The file link includes the baby takara model just for fun, even though I know fakies are more widely available (in both poses, too). The baby takara is also just two pieces instead of the nine pieces that the big takara is (the decorations on the face are just cosmetic, I put them there to give myself an idea of how they'd look). The wings/horns are also in the above file but they aren't combined with the meshes, sorry, I wasn't sure how I wanted to do that yet.
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I fully got distracted from compiling these files by the worst possible impulse which was to recreate all the not-specifically-pony items and friend characters directly from the catalog:
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I doubt anyone will want these or that I'll be able to print them given my limited printing options and most of it isn't done so that's why I took so long separating out everything from the copy of the file for sharing (I'm also suffering from large files because I'm bad at deleting stuff lol)
Anyways if anybody tests it out let me know if the link works and if the models are use-able for 3D printing. Although I know my library has its 3D printing thing im probably not going to do it soon since I'm super busy for the next couple weeks (hence: takara-pony-model-procrastination).
Oh wow cool to see the little guy all printed out!All printed and started on painting!
If anyone plans on printing them, I’d recommend to make the body have more infill than the head, I fitted them and while it fit perfectly (2nd pic), it couldn’t stand upright as a whole. I’ll try adding a thick tail and hot glue to add more weight, but just putting it out there since the whole thing is a little top heavy.
Other than that, it’s a perfect model! Printed beautifully with no issues
Gyroid infill at 5%, white PLA at 0.12 layer height.
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omg!! I'm so happy she worked out so far! Thank you for being the first experiment-er, sorry she is a little top heavy and hopefully you can lean her against a wall? Also is the neck hole loose and just held on by gravity or does it stick on tight enough to stay with friction?All printed and started on painting!
If anyone plans on printing them, I’d recommend to make the body have more infill than the head, I fitted them and while it fit perfectly (2nd pic), it couldn’t stand upright as a whole. I’ll try adding a thick tail and hot glue to add more weight, but just putting it out there since the whole thing is a little top heavy.
Other than that, it’s a perfect model! Printed beautifully with no issues
Gyroid infill at 5%, white PLA at 0.12 layer height.
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EDIT: Welcome to the world, Baby Pinky!
I still don’t know how to add hair to her head, if I should reroot her normally (making little holes on her head for it) or if I should make large holes and use large hair plugs. Maybe I should’ve attempted to print the head hollow.
But she’s almost done! She’ll be sealed tomorrow and hopefully I’ll order some needles to reroot her.
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No need to apologize! I’ll probably make a second print with different infill settings to confirm, but I’m pretty sure that’ll fix it. That said, adding a tail made her more balanced, so that’s also another fix.omg!! I'm so happy she worked out so far! Thank you for being the first experiment-er, sorry she is a little top heavy and hopefully you can lean her against a wall? Also is the neck hole loose and just held on by gravity or does it stick on tight enough to stay with friction?
The hair is kind of a can kicked down the road with this whole project. I've been aware that it will need some adjustment on the fly when printed but I've never actually printed anything in PLA so I wasn't sure what was plausible. In my head I was thinking to painstakingly hand-drill holes and try to root it very carefully (I've never rooted anything before either); I was worried PLA was too brittle to dremel at that scale.
Let us know how it goes!