Polymer Clay vs Polyresin Custom Bobbleheads

Which is the best bobblehead design style for me – Polyresin or Polymer Clay? 

All modern custom bobblehead companies create and construct customized bobbleheads for their customers using one of two very different design and material types.  Bobbleheads.com is the only company that offers you a personal choice between the two design methods.  So with Bobbleheads.com, you have the complete freedom to choose what’s best for you!

But which one should you choose?  

Polymer clay dolls are sculpted from pre-colored clay, as compared to our Polyresin option, which is hand-painted.  With polymer clay, you will have an easier time seeing your visions come to life since you don’t have to wait until the final step to see the color added, as you do with our polyresin options.  Since this process does not require a mold, it also is generally less expensive!

Once the polymer clay is approved, it will be baked exactly how you saw it.  Our artists are very skilled in this art form and can create great detail, so you don’t have to sacrifice quality for price and time!  That’s another upside to this option – since it is sent straight to baking after approval, it’s a great choice if you have a tight timeframe.  We typically see the proofs from our polymer clay factory twice as fast as from our polyresin factory!

Since the polymer clay creation process doesn’t require a mold, as polyresin items do, it is not possible to make identical duplicates of the designs.  They are each individually handmade and will have natural variations from each other.  If you need one or more copies of your bobblehead, then polyresin would probably be a better option.  Also, since polyresin items are painted, It is also possible to change colors if needed, since paint is used for coloring instead of the colors being embedded into the clay structure itself.  As a result of the mold and resin hardening process, a polyresin bobblehead is harder and more durable than a polymer clay figure.