Last year, I was asked by Mei Posso if I could work with her on a PR pitch for the upcoming OPI X Barbie collaboration and whether I would be able to customise some dolls to look like influencers. I had some experience with customising toys and with making stop motion miniatures so of course I said yes and that I would prepare something.
She didn’t know the doll I was going to make would be of her, but I couldn’t resist recreating her recent birthday look because it definitely gave Barbie vibes. Her face is hand painted, hair is rerooted, and wears a dress, gloves and jewellery all made by me
Unfortunately the idea didn’t end up moving forward… but I had so much fun working on everything and feel incredibly lucky to have had an opportunity like this - also huge shoutout to Mei for being a great friend and always supporting my work, we all need friends like Mei!
I carried on with the project myself and when the merchandise started to be released I decided to play around with designing different styles of boxes the dolls could’ve been packaged in, making an illustration for the box art and rendering some mock ups in Blender.
She didn’t know the doll I was going to make would be of her, but I couldn’t resist recreating her recent birthday look because it definitely gave Barbie vibes. Her face is hand painted, hair is rerooted, and wears a dress, gloves and jewellery all made by me
Unfortunately the idea didn’t end up moving forward… but I had so much fun working on everything and feel incredibly lucky to have had an opportunity like this - also huge shoutout to Mei for being a great friend and always supporting my work, we all need friends like Mei!
I carried on with the project myself and when the merchandise started to be released I decided to play around with designing different styles of boxes the dolls could’ve been packaged in, making an illustration for the box art and rendering some mock ups in Blender.
Box Designs
Box Illustration
TikTok Transformation Video