#zombie factory

(for the record, most fanart cotton dolls are drawn by an artist who then finds a manufacturer and starts a group chat, sometimes with a password, to fill the order quantity. you may sometimes see extras on taobao or weidian but the aventurine nui were really popular and the one authentic listing i DID manage to find was sold out before the proxy could place an order. in addition to the aventurine nuis that have been faked there was a 20cm boothill based off of his emoji that was super cute but i saw several people posting about accidentally getting a fake... sucked extremely because i wanted that one soooo bad lol)

but its fine, he wasn't very expensive and it gives me an opportunity to take him apart and practice making modifications

So some of the problems we have are:

(rilakkuma and mama nendo for scale lol)

-lopsided ears, although i think in the end i will leave them as theyre kind of cute to me

-the top of his bangs is just a half circle, it doesnt actually have a good shape. the original nuis this doll was copied from had two layered hair and a way better shape. unfortunately i dont have any fabric that matches this specific color/texture so whatever i end up doing has to be correct the first time... im leaving this till last lol

-the hat is hideous, shapeless, the embroidery is ugly, but this will have to wait until a later date because i dont have any fabric to make a new hat with right now. i plan to take it apart and use it to make a new pattern, though

-not pictured, but some of the hair pieces aren't properly fused together and have gaps between the layers, this is easy to fix by just putting some glue on a needle and sticking it in there

-the eyes are just not very accurate but I'm not too sure what to do. frogging embroidery is really hard, im thinking ill see about trying to paint over one of my early failed embroiderys to see how it looks but if it doesnt work out, there wont be anything i can do about this. however this may have been the original design, i dont remember well enough, because this simplified style of eye is pretty common for nui

-the body is kinda shapeless, even for a starfish nui, and the color is pretty faded. many nui have their clothes drawn and printed directly onto white fabric, but i dont own a printer that can do this and i honestly dont prefer the starfish shape anyways, i want to dress him up, so im going to make him a new 10cm body instead!

quality inspection... fortunately the color used for his face was a commonly used one that i had a ton of in my stash already lol

(the body pattern i used is by MiNi Box from bilibili )

the surgery was a success!!! i didnt embroider the paw prints or anything bc i forgor... but here he is next to another nui i have for scale/comparison

and he can now wear outfits!!!! this is pretty much all the 10cm clothes i own rn because i intend to start making them, i just dont have alot of fabric at the moment