How DO you make those Animal Costumes? (Fursuits) (original) (raw)

| | The Few Rules:* Before you ask a question, please check the MEMORIES (The text says "Memories" next to the community userpic.) TONS of questions have been catagorized! Also look at the "Entry Tags" to the left of this post.* Please, keep it PG13. (aka "work safe", no showing "bits")* Please, ONLY ON TOPIC posts! Keep it on Fursuits you have built, Tutorials, or questions on how to build them, only. (Not "What critter should I make?", etc please figure that out maybe in LJ FursuitLounge before you come here to build it)* Feel free to show any "HOW TOs" / Tutorials on creating things. THIS is what the community was made for!* For Fursuit Auctions / Sales / Wanting a Quote for something, please post to fursuitauctions! If you're looking to buy or sell fursuits, parts, or costume items, join that community! * For showing off your work, please limit the front of the post to ONE small picture (please, no larger than 250px by 250px), then for multiple pictures, please use the LJ-cut (see here: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75 )or just link the URL to the pic. Use this: ENTRY Do not put any spaces in the < > brackets. TEXT= what the link will say. ENTRY= what you put in the entry inside the cut. This can be pictures, text, etc* Please, Do not lock comments. Keep them open.* Constructive criticism IS ALLOWED. Be aware you may have some members comment on how to improve your work if you end up posting pictures unless you specifically say "Please, no crits on this" (or something along those lines. ) * NO FLAME WARS!* ENJOY! The Few Rules:* Before you ask a question, please check the MEMORIES (The text says "Memories" next to the community userpic.) TONS of questions have been categorized!* Please, keep it PG13. (aka "work safe", no showing "bits")* Please, ONLY ON TOPIC posts! Keep it on Fursuits you have built, Tutorials, or questions on how to build them, only.* Please, Do not lock comments. Keep them open.* For Fursuit Auctions / Sales / Wanting a Quote for something, please post to fursuitauctions! If you're looking to buy or sell fursuits, parts, or costume items, join that community! * Feel free to show any "HOW TOs" on creating things. THIS is what the community was made for!* For showing off your work, please limit the front of the post to ONE small picture (please, no larger than 250px by 250px), then for multiple pictures, please use the LJ-cut (see here: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75 )or just link the URL to the pic. Use this: ENTRY Do not put any spaces in the < > brackets.TEXT= what the link will say.ENTRY= what you put in the entry inside the cut. This can be pictures, text, etc * Also if you are showing off your work, PLEASE, don't post day after day after day with your progress. Instead, show us your construction pics by week, or the finished product when you are done.* Constructive criticism IS ALLOWED. Be aware you may have some members comment on how to improve your work if you end up posting pictures unless you specifically say "Please, no crits on this" (or something along those lines. ) * NO FLAME WARS!* ENJOY!-J I am looking for tutorials for hanging dog ears, I have tried googling but there is none what I can find. I need ears like spaniels/Saluki/Afghans to name a few. I have checked in memories but there is no help there either. Thank you all on beforehand. Tags:ears Hello! this is my first time using this website so sorry for any incorrectness. I am making a digi fursuit, and I am having a problem. so the body of it is normal, except for the leg area. It connects slanted like from the body and the upper part is very round, like these pictures similar: ( first picture i found on Tumblr from fursuit, I don't know the maker though.)( first picture i found on Tumblr from fursuit, I don't know the maker though.) **( Read more...Collapse )**Tags:body, bodysuits, changing body shape, clothing, feet, finished suits, first suit, markings, measuring, patterns, sewing, sewing different materials, shaving fur, trimming fur, wip, zipperMood:productiveproductive Hello fursuiters and fursuit creater community,I am currently creating my first fursuit(and using a resin base)for a star nose mole character. The problem that I have encountered is that due to the nose and extra foam added onto the base the front has become unevenly heavy. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I might be able to counterbalance the weight?Thank you in advance! P.s. I hope this is formatted correctly it’s my first post.Tags:heads, moving jaw, neck, noses So I am making my first partial, and I have done so much research on what to do/what not to do, but I have come to a problem. While gluing my jawset to the resin blank, it seems to have moved just the slightest bit to where the teeth lock together slightly/it makes it difficult to open and close the mouth. The problem is that I used extra strength hot glue and it's near impossible to remove now. Is there anything I can do to fix this? File the teeth maybe? Though I feel like that will just damage them instead of fix anything. Pictures included: Tags:adhesive, teethMood:distresseddistressed I saw this video tutorial and was wondering if this technique would be possible for making a sheet of faux "fur"I'm planning to make a partial/mini partial, so I definitely don't need a whole load of fur. My fursona has six colors, mostly different shades of brown/burgundy so I really don't want to buy six different colors of fur and drop $80+ on it. I'm thinking about getting mesh fabric to loop the yarn through and create a sheet of fur. Has anyone done this? I've looked everywhere but haven't seen a solid answer. My only fear is shaving the yarn down for the fursuit head and messing it up (I've seen no one shave down yarn fur). I've heard that it is washable. The last thing I want to do is buy a buttload of fur in different colors when I only need a little bit of each color. If yarn fur isn't a good method, what other options do you guys think I could use? Buying white fur and dyeing/painting it was another one of my options but the color easily washes out of synthetic fibers. Tags:furring, furs, shaving fur, trimming fur こんいちわ！Hello everyone (Picture is not mine Credit: Kemocube) I would like to make a head like this and a wagging tail as @missrars on Instagram for her Catxenfish. She said that she got the tutorial from rarsuit if anyone has an idea on how to create mesh moving jaw heads and wagging tails. Please do not hesitate to comment. I WILL read all comments.Tags:bodysuits, collars or tags, eyes, feet, hair / wigs, horns, hot glue, markings, mesh, moving jaw, neck, pawpads, tails does anyone know where to find a pale/muted purple/mauve/lilac/grey colour? i dont know how to add pictures, sorry :( i'm a maker in the UK and stock is limited. thank you <3 Tags:furring, furs, materials Hello! Here are some wips of a head I’m working on (: I envisioned a fox but it turned into a canine. I’d love some tips from you guys. I do know that one side is bigger than the other and the muzzle is a little off, but I’m trying! Should I make it bigger? Thanks!Tags:armature, casting, critiques, first suit, heads, quality, references, sculpey, sculpting, thoughts Hi there, I'm a relative noob to the furry world, though I have been a maskmaker for many years. I am getting ready to list my first publicly available partial at auction and am wondering, where are good places to go to get lots of eyeballs on the post? That's probably more important to me than the actual sale. I see Livejournal has a sales forum. Where are places you like to go to browse? Thanks so much! Hey, so I don't have any photos but I am currently sculpting a headbase of a species not very common in the fandom (but is somewhat becoming popular because of a big maker) and that I've always wanted to make for years. Its a toony base, and there is only one other (well known) person out there that has made a toony version of the species and the challenge of making them anthropromorphic. Because of the animal you can only fit the head on a certain angle so it brings up a challenge, I was pretty proud of how it was turning out and was working my hardest. However, I showed some WIPS in a chat today and was told by a few people that the head looks just like (insert others name here) which was something I was afraid of hearing. I can only do so much to the base for it to actually look like the species and yet look unique, nice looking, and proportionate. The person I was accused of copying made a very "generic" toony base not really in any style, yet I have done my best to make it as original and unique as I can. How am I supposed to deal with this? What can I do? Its just a base, right? Its going to be covered up with fur anyway? Im afraid of getting yelled at by other people and afraid of the person I was accused of copying to come and attack me. Hope this makes sense, I'm at a loss and in a bit of a panic. I have always made heads using longpile and shaved it down, but this next head i’m planning I’m going to use short and long furs with the intent of not shaving an inch, as I think it’ll create a smooth finish quite easily. I’ve run into two curiosities in my pursuit -How do I make sure handsewn shortpile doesn’t dramatically show seams, or is this not an issue? I am familiar with the matrices tutorial on making short fur more seamless using machine sewing, but it’s not really applicable to hand sewn fur like I do on my heads. Is this even an issue with handsewing, does the fur still get caught in the seams and create an awkward gap? My instinct is it’ll be fine but I wanted to double check! -pile length variant. An interesting point of working with short fur is the dramatic transition between short and long furs without gradations, i was wondering things like how to go about ears? The ears will be semi-floppy (like on a collie or Australian Shepard) so would a stylistic approach like long at the bottom short at the top look good or jarring? Would there be a stylistic benifit on pile length variation for the neck? Like a patch of short/long fur and such. Thanks in advance!Mock-up: (overlayed on the base i'm using)https://imgur.com/a/VDz2Th1 Scrolling through posts and such here, and the go-to balaclava pattern seems to have disappeared a while ago.. wondering, what do people use for their go-to balaclava pattern? I know it's easy to buy one but I want to be able to make one too. TIA! So during a convention months ago, my resin fursuit mask fell on the ground and one side of it's jaw piece snapped in half (for added info, it was a DVC crow skull resin mask). ( Read more...Collapse ) Hey! I am new to the fursuit making scene and is currently trying to save up to make a fursuit and in the making of a character, I want to make a cat but I know all black is a bad idea for photos ect and white details get dirty and bad looking fast. I wonder if there are some kind of alternative to white fur that still would look good? I sort of want a tuxedo cat or like a tabby with white markings. So all advice is welcome! Even how to get white fur looking good for years.Thank you all! For my fursuit head I'm planning on going for a realistic style, but with follow-me buckram eyes rather than the much smaller tearduct vision. I tried looking up examples of this for days, but found literally nothing. Is there a reason nobody's done this, or is it just something nobody's thought of yet? I'm assuming it would work exactly like toony eyes, just painted realistically. 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