/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8750019

I would say, stick to the sprite sheet you included. Do you have experience with foam construction/fursuits/mascots? If not, I would personally ditch the functioning jaw. Very finicky and often breaks up and takes away from the overall shape of the mask, speaking foam-wise.

I would suggest four claws for the hands, three for the feet. Hiding the human shape is one of hte funner aspects of foam/creature costuming. I would suggest taking a photo of yourself and drawing over it in photoshop to get an idea of how to translate certain proportions from the sprite art to the tangible 3D costume. (Heck, even doing so on paper would be good.

Another tip is, for the head, to sculpt the head in clay at a minature scale Preferably half the size you intend it to be in foam form. and wrap seran wrap over the clay form, then tape over the seran wrap/clay form and draw your pattern onto the tape. Each pattern piece has to lay flat individually when cut, so try to break up the shapes into flat geometric planes. A dart here or there will help tremendously. Then resize the pattern and transfer to foam. Keep the original clay form with the pattern pieces tacked on to where they should respectully be, to help yourself in the foam stage.

Pic related. An Alphys head I had started with the exact method I mentioned. I personally prefer it in this case, as it help keep the form stream lined and true to her simplistic shape. But, really, do what works best for you. Goodluck

>>8737728
>>8737728
Anon- what you can do is get something of a similar, rounded/oval shape, heck, even a watermelong or something, and wrap seran wrap over it, then take duct tape and ducttape over the seran wrap. Then draw over the duct tape and create and cut it out into flat pattern pieces.

That way you can either use that watermelon pattern, or modify and construct your own pattern for the head shape. Things like the nose/etc. can be added to the foam shape after you got that initial foam pattern shape cut and glued.

Pic related, the (taped) foam sculpt for an Alphys mask I am making now. Though, in my case, I sculpted a 1/3rd scale clay version of the head, then used the duct tape method above to pattern that clay model, then resize and transfer the tape pattern to foam.

Good luck, Anon!