A little about reborns
What is a reborn?
A reborn is an artistic made doll that looks and feels like a real baby. The most common material used is vinyl body parts (head and limbs) together with a cloth body. The doll can also be partly in silicone, or completely in vinyl or silicone.
Who wants a reborn?
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Those who are fascinated by the spectacular similarity to the real baby, with all of the details made by the sculptor and reborn artist
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Those who wants a beautiful ornament, which makes visitors have to look once again
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Those who do role playing and takes care of the doll
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Those who uses the doll as therapy, for any kind of reason
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Those who loves babies, but don’t want to or don’t have the possibility to care for a real child
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Those who loves newborn photography, proffesionally or as a hobby
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Those who needs a real looking doll in a movie scene where a real baby can't be used
How is a reborn made?
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The doll gets sculpted in clay by a sculptor*
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A mold is being made out of the sculpture
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The mold is getting used to make the body parts into vinyl, mostly in a limited quantity
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The doll parts then sells unpainted as a kit
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A reborn artist paints the vinyl, and adds details such as hair and eyelashes before it is put together.
*Exceptions in the manufacturing process is when the doll is called a realborn. Then the doll is a scan out of a real baby, which then has been produced into vinyl.
Both sculptor and reborn artist has a goal to create the doll as life like as possible, this by doing their own specific details.
How I always create my reborns
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The doll parts gets properly washed and air dried
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I paint in several thin layers with Genesis Heat Set Paint to get a flesh like look and life looking details. The eyebrows are painted as well
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A final sealing of the paint is made to protect the color and prevent the vinyl from getting shiny
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The lips and nails are sealed aswell, but with shiny gloss
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The vinyl gets a skin texture mix that is soft to the touch
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The eyelashes and the hair is rooted with high quality mohair, which then is glued from the inside of the head together with a magnet for the mouth to be able to have a magnetic pacifier
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The doll is weighted and filled with fine glass beads and soft fibre fill
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The photos are taken in daylight with a system camera
Doll sizes
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Miniature (not real size)
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Premature (born too early)
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Newborn
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Toddler (1-3 year old)
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Kid