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What is this group about? While the BJD hobby includes various different 'side-hobbies' such as painting, customizing, sculpting, etc. this group focuses on the artistic photography aspect. We do not judge photos by the looks of the doll, but by the artistic value of the photo itself. Just like when photographing a human model, different aspects such as lighting, posing, composition, creativity, originality, etc. should be kept in mind and proven in the photographs. What are Ball jointed dolls? A ball-jointed doll is a doll that is articulated with ball and socket joints. In contemporary usage when referring to modern dolls, and particularly when using the acronyms BJD or ABJD, it usually refers to modern Asian ball-jointed dolls. These dolls are cast in polyurethane resin: a hard, dense plastic; and the parts are strung together with thick elastic strings. BJDs are predominantly produced in Japan, South Korea and China. The BJD style has been described as both realistic and influenced by anime/manga. Their size varies from about 60 centimetres (24 in) for the larger dolls, 40 cm (16 in) for the mini dolls, and all the way down to 10 cm (4 in) or so for the tiniest of the tiny BJDs. BJDs are primarily intended for adult collectors and customizers. They are created to be easily customized by painting, changing the eyes and wig, and so forth. For more information about BJDs: [link] How can I join? Membership is OPEN/AUTO-APPROVED, so anyone can join the group, being a BJD owner or not. To join the group, simply press the "Join this Group" button located on top of this page. Before submitting your works to the group, please make sure you read the rules below on this page. Approval/Rejection of Submissions usually takes about 5 hours to 2 days to be reviewed. Please be patient if it happens to take a bit longer once a while. If your submission hasn't been approved/rejected after 5 days, please contact the moderating team on the correspondence notice or through dev-notes. Thank you. |
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Quick links: ll Submission: How to ll Tutorial list ll CHAT Rules 1. The photo(s) must contain Ball-Jointed-Dolls: Dolls with ball and socket joints, with customizable and interchangeable eyes and wigs, made of resin. We DO NOT ACCEPT the following: Hujoos, Pullips, Blythes or hybrids that have their parts. NOTE: WE DO NOT ACCEPT BLANK BJD HEADS, OR ANY BJDS THAT IS SANS FACE UP. No matter the artistic vision for the photo. EXCEPTIONS WHICH WE'LL ACCEPT IN THE GROUP: Obitsu, Super Dollfie, Self-made dolls (which can be made of clay etc. but must have other BJD features such as above, and they belong into the Self-made BJD folder) 2. The photo(s) must be of a certain quality standard – not too grainy, blurry, dark, bright, overly contrasted etc. 3. The photo(s) should not contain distracting backgrounds such as human legs, arms, head, messy rooms etc. 4. Multiple photo submission should not belong to the same set from a photo shoot that has another photo that was approved previously (I.E Same shoot but different poses etc.) 5. The photo(s) should be submitted to the appropriate folder: MSD: 40-45cm. SD & Hound: 60-80cm, Yo-SD & Tinies: 30cm and below. Etc. 6. The photo(s) should have a mature tag if needed and not violate any other terms & conditions of DeviantArt. 7. If the photo(s) are suspected to have violated copyrights, they will be declined and the user will be banned if it happens again after a warning. 8. The photo(s) should not contain any sale ads. This group does not support sales, if you have something to sell please visit marketplaces such like on DOA or other platforms as Ebay. *NEW: 11th Oct 2010* 9. The photo(s) should not have any BJD limbs as subjects. E.g a shot of a pair of BJD's hands joining together. Reason being such photos are a hit-and-miss and it's hard to justify base on personal opinions. For more information about this clause, please view this entry: [link] Fanarts: Fanart of any kind is allowed as long as it is based on yours or other peoples' doll characters. They may not necessarily be drawn as dolls (with joints etc) but do refrain from submitting such art works to only a few a month. There are plenty of art groups on deviantART for posting those, and we would prefer to keep our main focus on photography. Photo-manipulations: The following below doesn't count as photo-manipulations and they belong into the photo folders:
Photo-manipulations that belong into the Fanart folder:
Our Quality Standards includes: Effort, creativity, originality, composition, etc. The moderators are free to judge the photo submissions within this quality standards and decline a submission without giving a reason. However, if you would like to know why a certain submission got declined, you are free to ask the group, as long as you keep it polite. Rude comments will not be entertained. Spamming/Dev-noting of staff members individually will be ignored and severely dealt with. We would like to emphasize that the quality standards has got nothing to do with any form of elitism. An art website such as DeviantArt is all about showing and improving your art, and improving isn’t possible without any form of critique. |
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