A picture from the Okami photo shoot at AnimeNEXT! 2009.

My friend in her Amaterasu suit, me in Oki, and our other friend in her Samickle suit.

These are all our first suits. The heads are all wire frames. Oki and Samickle are built up with masking tape and model magic, and Ami is just lined with felt and then covered in white fur. They all have articulated jaws. Vision for Ami is through the mouth, but Oki and Samickle see through the eyes. Ami is made with an eyelash fabric, Oki with faux fur, and Samickle with flannel.

Ami has been worked on and improved over the last year or so. Oki was made over about two months, and Samickle was put together in just two weeks.