Adding Hats to Dolls (or, Putting Yourself Together in Muzy Collage)

One of the fun things to do in Muzy collage is to make customized characters and scenes from pieces and parts. This tutorial goes over some ways to put items together in Muzy collage.

You’ll find a lot of bases and templates in Muzy, and you’ll also find a lot of hats, clothes, eyes, ears, jewelry, and other accouterments to make your own personalized being. As an example of how to combine items, I’m going to show you how to add a hat to a doll, using this Sitting Doll Base by Luthien.

Sitting Doll Base, by Luthien. Click to view.

The doll is your blank canvas. Let’s dress it up by adding a hat. I rather like this Black Chapeau, by Ptrice.

Black Chapeau by Ptrice. Click to view.

Now it’s time to put them together. The things that you’ll need to take into account are:

(1) Size. Resize the objects to fit together how you want them.

(2) Placement. Fit the objects together where you want them, and layer them as you want them.

(3) Melding. You might want to erase part of one object, make it partially transparent, or add a shadow, highlight, or glow.

So, let’s do it:

Let’s add a dress for good measure. Here’s a nice Sitting Figure Dress by Suntan.

Sitting Figure Dress by Suntan

This is going to be a little trickier to fit on the doll:

The final doll is dressed to go out on the town.