oooh, i cant wait!!!

looks good !

Hey, you use that white fur too buddy!

I'm not going to use that stuff anymore. Wears out WAY too quickly.

How you been?

Just an FYI for future reference: that particular white fur is really not the best for fursuits, especially so much of it. The fur fluoresces, meaning it glows when UV light hits it. Flashes on cameras, being xenon strobes, have a lot of UV content, and it really makes taking pictures difficult. And you've contrasted it with black.

I bought myself a handheld, battery operated UV light to test furs when I buy them. I won't buy fluorescing fur anymore for this very reason.

I'm sure it will look nice, but I thought I'd warn you about photography. If you attend conventions with the costume, I recommend getting a session done by Dragonscales. They're professional, and account for the fact that some fursuits use this type of fur, and they have UV filters on their strobes I believe. Otherwise, be out in the sunlight and bright diffuse daylight as much as you can for being photographed. Natural light tends to have less of an effect.

Good luck finishing the costume. It's a lot of fun, eh?

Heh, I noticed this last night on a picture I took in my room. my belly fur is white very short pile. When I attempted to go and brighten up the picture, to make my darker grey-black fur stand out more, I noticed that the white was enhanced quite a bit. But the real question is, where and how to you specifically find non-fluorescing fur?

Well, most non-white fur doesn't fluoresce (I should look up the spelling of that...) The problem is, "white" isn't a color. It is absence of pigment. But you can't have absence of pigment for nylon or acrylic. It doesn't come out quite right. So, they have to use something that makes the plastic polymer material white. I don't know precisely what it is, but usually, it is fluorescent, the same thing that makes a fluorescent tube glow white (the light naturally produced is very much in the ultraviolet range.)

If you can't find a hand-held, battery operated blacklight, a good rule of thumb is that if it looks really white, its for a reason. Besides, know any animals out there with really white fur, besides a polar bear? They have a tinge of gray or some other color (flesh perhaps.) And a polar bear's fur is really clear, it just appears white for the same reason snow does (dramatic refraction of light.)

Well that's definitely good to know... wouldn't have thought about that actually... makes me wonder how photogenic my suit will actually be... :\ *ponders*

Looking good! Do you use measurement or do you require a Duct tape dummy?

looks nice

Looks good so far. :)

looks great. when i first saw it i thought OMG someone ran over that poor fur with a steamroller.
(this shows how tired i am)

how long did it take you to work on him?

He's like: "Oh nooooo!"

Heh so far looking good, albeit without a body he's looking pretty lifeless there ;P can't wait to see more done on this. *bouncebouncebounce* *squee*

This is so cool. Dooker will be so happy. :)