As I've remarked numerous times before (as have many others), I love Disney movies… but I'm often still critical of them. Take, for example, the typical character designs of the female characters: ...

Learn how body proportions change from youth to old age and how artists use these differences to create more realistic ...

When we last met IAmElemental in 2016, the New York City-based startup had recently introduced its second collection of female action figures with realistic body proportions. (Think a normal breast-to ...

For decades, Disney characters have embodied unrealistic beauty standards. But what if they looked like real people instead? One artist has reimagined these iconic heroines with everyday proportions, ...

Thanks to the doll makers at Lammily, girls and boys everywhere have a female doll with realistic proportions. They've even equipped the doll with menstrual pads to teach girls about their periods and ...

Holly Fae was lying around in bed when she spontaneously decided to re-create Elsa the Disney princess. Using Procreate on her iPad, Holly gave the familiar Frozen character a new twist as she ...

It only took one day for artist Nickolay Lamm to raise enough funds to produce his line of “Lammily” dolls, a shorter, thicker and more realistic version of the Mattel icon. “It’s not an anti-Barbie,” ...

In the summer of 2013, researcher and illustrator Nickolay Lamm introduced America to a new kind of Barbie doll — one that doesn’t promote an impossibly skinny, busty standard of beauty, but instead, ...

While we might admire Barbie’s career aspirations, the dolls famously unrealistic body proportions (which would force a real woman to walk on all fours… with half a liver) leave a lot to be desired.