Mm.. I made this so the family could tell what suits were mine when watching youtube vids I send. lol I thought you guys n gals could use it too. :)
I built each of the fursuits listed above, except for Romeo the red panda. My first fursuit is on the left and it progresses to the right. I hope I'm getting better at building them. Provo and I learn so much from building each one as new features are added that become a challenge for us to figure out.
Here are some of our "firsts": Tig had numerous challenges which include creating digitigrade legs, follow-me eyes, nubby fingertips, the feathery fluff on the back of her head, gluing the many markings on her curvy tail (I didn't know how to make a stuffed tail with a spine, so I glued the fur to a spine made of braided foam and duct tape! HAHA!), and had failed at making a movable jaw (which is now static). Romeo was a challenge to modify the inside of a head and take-in the bodysuit which I had not built, so that it would fit Provo and myself. Moondog was our first successful movable jaw, first time attaching a wig to the head, building a bodysuit, and making bell-shaped sleeves with end-caps. Harp had many challenges including making our first cartoon "bowl-eyes", shaping foam to make widening arms and big stompy feet, making a long tail that involved fur panels sewn together, sewing vinyl hand claws that I could fit my fingers inside, and discovering a way to hide the sides of the jaw so that it appeared his mouth opened only in the front (as a human mouth would) and still maintain his smile when it opened and closed.
With each fursuit, we've also discovered how to make the head smaller and smaller as we understand how thin the foam structure can be. We began with Tig with a 3" foam base and adding extra foam to shape it, and ended with Harp's head that used 1" foam. Our next one will use 1/2" foam, because we've found that you don't need much to build on, as long as it holds its shape. :P
I built each of the fursuits listed above, except for Romeo the red panda. My first fursuit is on the left and it progresses to the right. I hope I'm getting better at building them. Provo and I learn so much from building each one as new features are added that become a challenge for us to figure out.
Here are some of our "firsts": Tig had numerous challenges which include creating digitigrade legs, follow-me eyes, nubby fingertips, the feathery fluff on the back of her head, gluing the many markings on her curvy tail (I didn't know how to make a stuffed tail with a spine, so I glued the fur to a spine made of braided foam and duct tape! HAHA!), and had failed at making a movable jaw (which is now static). Romeo was a challenge to modify the inside of a head and take-in the bodysuit which I had not built, so that it would fit Provo and myself. Moondog was our first successful movable jaw, first time attaching a wig to the head, building a bodysuit, and making bell-shaped sleeves with end-caps. Harp had many challenges including making our first cartoon "bowl-eyes", shaping foam to make widening arms and big stompy feet, making a long tail that involved fur panels sewn together, sewing vinyl hand claws that I could fit my fingers inside, and discovering a way to hide the sides of the jaw so that it appeared his mouth opened only in the front (as a human mouth would) and still maintain his smile when it opened and closed.
With each fursuit, we've also discovered how to make the head smaller and smaller as we understand how thin the foam structure can be. We began with Tig with a 3" foam base and adding extra foam to shape it, and ended with Harp's head that used 1" foam. Our next one will use 1/2" foam, because we've found that you don't need much to build on, as long as it holds its shape. :P
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