FINALLY

I have put these pictures up! Naoto (the Isao Nanjou v. 2) is finally home!! Yippee!

( for...mree? :D )


Give your love to Naoto! He's sure going to need it with Shin. .__.

This is by far one of my favourite photoshoots, second possibly to the kimono shoot with Melange and Azel. The photography isn't as crisp I think, which makes me want to go get one of those expensive cameras. However, it's not as portable. Hmmm, decisions decisions.

Anyway, here's the photoshoot: "Numbers"!

( 4LL TH3 PR3TTY NVM|33R5 )


I love taking pictures of Melange with her default eyes in. I'll have to find another pair that I really, really like taking pictures of her in.

Also, there has been a lack of Shin in these photoseries! I think it's because I love his default hair, but it mooshes out to the side in a really unflattering way. I'll have to take some epically awesome shots of him soon. (OH WAIT, I DO HAVE AWESOME SHOTS OF HIM!)

Tune in next time when I give you kyofujimiya's Kali, Shin and Azel!

NOTE: If you didn't figure it out, this is the art sculpture I was talking about that's ringed in flowers!

Poor Melange - she had a bad day. Luckily Shin's here to cheer her up (albeit awkwardly)!

( ummmmmm.... )


He's endearing in a...weird way! Really!

There's this really nice ring of flowers around a certain art sculpture (which is actually where the next photoset takes place), and I thought Atelair would enjoy it down there:

( apparently so! )


When I was first ordering him in FCS, I wasn't incredibly thrilled, but I really wanted to order a doll in FCS, and I loved the ear options for the MSD's. I remember thinking that I'd never seen the robot wings as ears before (I'd only seen cat or dragon ears). As soon as he was done, I fell so much in love with him, especially as an MSD. He's so light! I had only gotten SD13's (Shin and Azel) before, and carrying them around together was a chore. But Atelair can pretty much go anywhere happily. :D

Mijn Schatje, a rather successful "artist" who has hosted a couple of art shows and has sells her work on iPod/laptop skins on infectious.com, is an art thief.

She has taken ABJD pictures, both from company stock photos and from owners themselves and has used them without their permission to vector over into what she calls "original" pieces of art.

Some examples of the thievery can be found here. None of the pictures are modified, and neither are her works - the overlay in the middle is to show how both the doll picture and the "art" line up perfectly.

You can see the

Radio has contacted the companies involved asking if they had given permission to Mijn Schatje, and here are their responses:

DIM:
Thank you so much for letting me know about the illegal site using our doll images.
This is very unusual and I never know this.
I will check and do what I can do stop this.
Thank you again and it's very kind of you.
Have a good weekend.
Best wishes,
Denny

Pipos:
Hello^0^
This is intersting because we already met her last year at her homepage.
And we didn\'t give her a permission to use our Baha pictures.
We need to contact her again and make sure about these copies.
Thank you very much for letting us know this fact.

Have a good day!

regards,
PIPOSDOLL

Volks:
Thank you for contacting us regarding this matter.
No, we had not heard of this particular artist, we thank you for
bringing this to our attention.
We will forward your email to our headquarters, and let them know
of the situation and your concerns.
Thank you once again.

Sincerely,

VOLKS USA Web Service Center
VOLKS USA, INC.


LUTS:
Thank you for your message.
It is quite.. shocking;

I am really surprised this artist(???) copied not only our dolls but other many BJD.
We will discuss and prepare a notice about this immediately and we will find any way to prevent it. If we need, we will consider legal action on it.

She was never allowed to use our product, design to make a profit. We will react on it strictly.


We really appreciate your message.
Thanks to you and many of our customers' help, we can keep our right and we will remember that we should return the benefit to customers. :)

Thank you and have a nice day!

It seems that now LUTS is thinking of taking legal action upon Mijn Schatje, as well.

So, there you have it folks. It saddens me to see a person using others' doll photos without permission, much less making money off of it. To give you an idea, her laptop skins sell for about $30, and her "original" prints sell for about $1,0000.

She is making money illegally off of someone else's doll photos.

If this concerns you as much as it does me, please crosspost it on your journal and let people know. It's not right that she touts her work as 100 percent original when it clearly is forged.

Thanks to Tomato, Radio, and Demyx for all their hard work figuring this out.

Crossposted to illuminesce as well.

UPDATE: Leekeworld has also confirmed that she was not given permission for their pictures.

Thank you for your message.
We didn't give her permission.
We will contact to her.
Thanks a lot and have a good day.
From Leekeworld.

To see more about Mijn Schatje's exploits, check out...

+ Stardust Asylum's Blog
+ priestessofnada's entry
+ miaowkitten's entry

[EDIT]
For viewers and those over at NetDiver: a newer, more updated site is available as well:

http://radiotrash.org/mijn/

So far Mijn Schatje has a) claimed originally the works were hers completely, b) later admitted that she had used pictures, but never for tracing, only for her original art, and c) has attempted to provide reference pictures that are different from those on this site, claiming that she had received permission from all those above.

アテレーア：こんいちわ、イロさん～！元気？

アテレ－ア：チェルシーちゃんと僕は日本に戻りたい！：３すご～く寒くなったので、あまり出かけない。



アテレーア：でも今週の落ちた葉はきれいね～

So, I think I've gotten to a point where Melange looks beautiful to me. I know, I'm a perfectionist, but I have to show you some of these shots that I took outside. They're just gorgeous.

Faceup by the admirable ShallowSleep of DoA.

( tumbling down~ )


I'll be doing a subsequent post for Ayano-san and her doll, Iro. :D

Welp, while I was hanging out with Ian, I took some quick pics of Atelair with his Togainu no Chi necklace.

Note: I love Togainu no Chi. 8D

( true blood )


:3

So, somewhere on DoA there was a thread about dolls in scanners. For our Electronic Media class, we had to bring something to scan - so, why not my dear Melange?

Kudos to Photobucket if they decide to keep this up, and NOT DELETE IT, PLZ.

( since there's (tasteful) nudity in here, i'm lj-cuttin' dis )

To be honest, it's the first time I've used Photoshop to manipulate photos of my dolls. :D I actually kind of like it.

I usually use this journal to post dollfie pics, but usually not what I've been hoping for/doing in the dollfie community. I don't think anyone's amazingly interested in what I do, though I was thinking it might be fun to branch out into the dollfie community, and try to avoid (too much?) crazy.

I'm both a member on DoD, Resinality and DoA, and while both have a different feel to it, I don't think I have that many friends on either (I actually think the friends I have that aren't IRL that I met due to dollfies are darkawaii and dubious_volute). So, I'm trying to branch out and post everyone on DoA (and if they're really good photos, DoD) just to get some cameratime for teh family. :D

Melange
I got apoxie sculpt a day ago, and now I'll be working hard on Melange's eyes to even them out a bit (due to the sanding off of her moulded eyelashes, she has some uneven eyes), and possibly get some rare earth magnets to make her a magnetic headcap (I'm still unsure as to whether or not her headcap can take drills, or if I should use sculpt) and possibly mod her head so that it can take an S hook (which would be badass). Also, using the apoxie sculpt, I want to be able to add a niche in her thigh joint that allows her to sit up straight like Shin, Azel, and Atelair do, because doing sitting poses with her suck ass. Also, as a note, I might want to re-string her without the knot in her foot because that affects her standing poseability, too.

Shin n' Azel
Also, reading newbabyfly's modding a rotating thigh joint tutorial on Resinality, I want to try it with either Shin or Azel. Also, I got the two of them a new pair of hands to share (previously, they had 'trigger fingers' which are awesome and not normally sold in stores, but since I have no guns for them, are completely useless), so I need to sand those mofos. In addition to that - they have some staining in the crotchal region because of their pants. I need to a) get a Mr. Clean Eraser to them and b) get them underwear, as much as Shin may hate it.

Shin: Goddamnit woman, let me be free!

And well, Atelair is perfect, so there's no mods to be done on him. :D

Atelair: :D

...but maybe get him a MSD wig in blonde, or a fur wig, because his dark brown wig, while nice, keeps falling in his eyes and obstructing his eyes.

That's basically it - I don't really want to buy new dolls because I can't transport them easily as it is (it looks like I have to take only one or two dolls along if I'm going somewhere), but the "if I had a million dollars" and "if I had a house/apartment of my very own to keep them in (which may be soon) -

Homme Ducan as Heat from DDS. I used to think it was super-lame to make a doll for a favourite character, but now I'm actually reconsidering it. You know, it might be fun to make a Pinky Street doll for Heat (def. costs less) - but I think I just want an excuse to buy a Homme Ducan.

Camine as Serph. I know Sha would look better, but I saw a Sha in real life, and was terrified. Ducans and Camines are so much nicer than Sha's (IMHO).

Obviously, I've done a lot of updates to the journal, and I want to draw in a cut little background for it, too. :3