/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Bump for the potential of good fursuit pics

Ah I need help with fur too, I was thinking about cosplaying as flufflepuff and don't know where to get such ridiculous pink fur...
I also dont want to look like i'm going to a rave. Where to even begin...

I've found a few good tuts on Deviantart, it's as easy as just searching 'fursuit tutorial'.
When you buy fur, just be careful not to get that fun fur, your best bet is to order it online.
Making the suit is the easiest part, the suit, then gloves, then feetpaws, the head is the most difficult part tbh.

>>7440549
What are good bases for heads or I guess the best material to construct a head with.

>>7440567
Most people just use foam on a balaclava.
They carve it to w/e shape they need and then fur it.

I want to do this Kyurem gijinka, but I have no idea how to do the long feathery parts and stuff without making it look tacky or bad.
Does anyone have any ideas?

any good fursuit examples

>fur noob here

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>>7440591
This is so lovely. It's a very well brought together sona.

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>>7440615
that feel when it's probably a man

>>7441988
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>>7440591
Does s/he have a blog? This character is super cute.

>>7442063
pizako.tumblr.com/

>>7441987
hnnng, so adorable!

>>7442063
https://twitter.com/pzk_luna

>Fursuit.livejournal.com
>Matrices.net
>Beetlecat's tutorials
>Fabric.com
>FabricEmpire
>Mendels
>http://www.nftech.com/ for long ass fur. Good fucking luck paying for it.

There.

...This is the longest I've ever seen a fursuit thread go without any derogatory comments, holy shit

>>7442614
How could you forgot distinctivefabric.com
there's a reason everybody calls that standard Shannon Fabrics luxury shag "DF fur"

>>7442086
She's such a cutie!

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>>7440548
I recommend this stuff, the pale pink: http://www.distinctivefabric.com/fabric.php?product=EXTRALONGFUR1

>>7440548
>>7442775
could also go with frosted mongolian in baby pink http://www.distinctivefabric.com/fabric.php?product=FROSTFUR3

>>7442686
What on gods green earth

>>7442796
spacecats

>>7442806
Hello, spacecats!

>>7442669
>she

>>7440548
If you want straight fur, there's Monterey Mills White fox which you can airbrush or sharpie bath-dye the correct pink. To emphasize fluffiness, pattern the fur against gravity on purpose, and brush the fur the correct direction. This will allow the fur to have a bit more body. Otherwise, you'll have to go to NFT and have specialty made fur. There is also punky muppet pink from Mendels. It's in San Francisco, and you can get a local seagull to pick it up and ship it if you want to save some cash and avoid customs if that is an issue for you.

>>7440586
Interfaced insides with a non-pill fleece for a softer, more cartoony wing. Minky fabric instead of fleece for a slightly cartoony but more plushie-type look. Lay small feathers in an interlocking weave if you want realism (and you like torturing yourself.)

>>7442614
NFT (National Fiber Technologies) does sell its excess, but it's more for custom commissioning fur. It's extremely expensive unless you make costumes professionally. Fursuit makers sometimes bulk order common colors and will allow the general populace to buy off them sometimes. I know I have a bulky 5in white fur that I use all the time, but that's never for sale.

>>7442775
That fur has a strong tendancy towards clumping. Unless you want to look slightly wet, you probably want simple long only. You can reducing the clumping by washing the fur in the washing machine, delicates cycle (or in a delicates bag) with a white vinager/baking soda mix. Just do NOT use fabric softener (makes the backing looser and more prone to shedding), and please brush it as it dries. This brushing will smooth the fur out and reduce the look of clumping.

If anyone has questions, I'll be around for a while.

>>7442847
And please OP, keep furry things out of /cgl/. Costume advice for actual anime characters or gijinka is fine, but please remember this isn't girl board or general costume board. I say this as a fellow furry, and a well-known maker of fursuits both cosplay and not.

Don't make more problems for the furries who know when furry is appropriate or not. Go to FA for fursonas and the like.

>>7442847
What kind of fur would you recommend for a King Kazma cosplay?
Have you ever used Easy Cast before? I tried using it once, but it would never dry/harden enough.

>>7442867
Sorry, I've been cleaning. Fur clogs up everything.

For the face, use a short seal fur, trimmed even shorter using a dog clipper. Take a low-shine wig and weft it into the fur for the back of the head hair. I'd most recommend using seal fur from imstuffedfur.com It's very soft and I use it often. The backing is very strong and is nice to the touch. That, and the fur is dense, so it's better to work when trimmed. Use a baseball stitch with the edges butt up together and brush your seams out, it'll look much better than traditional hand-sewing techniques. If you aren't an amazing sculptor of foam, Dreamvisioncreations.com has a bunny resin blank to work off of. Just add some foam over the eye sockets to emulate his face.

Easy Cast is your standard 1:1 resin. It's easy mode. If it didn't cure properly, either you measured wrong or the conditions you did it in were wrong.

Try it once more, but use a digital scale that measures very minute amounts or use children's medicine tubes (for giving out cough syrup? Looks like a tube with a spoon-shaped lip?) Just be accurate. If this still doesn't cure it either means

A- moisture got into the mixture. Resin does not get along with water. Your mixing cups need to be dry, your stirring tool needs to be dry, and your wooden sticks should be for chemical mixing, not Popsicle sticks (water based waxes that dissolve and contaminate resin). I use plastic spoons personally. Even high humidity days are a bad choice to start your mix though, so be very wary of water.

B-The temperature is too cold. Resin likes hot. Putting resin outside in the sun makes it cure 10x faster. (not literally). temperatures beneath 50-ish degrees can permanently stunt curing.

C-Your resin expired. Yes, resin expires. Old resin never fully activates. If your cast never heats up, chances are it expired. Even unopened, improperly stored resin can expire, especially when stored at unideal temperatures and humidities.

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>>7441987
Normally fursuits terrify me but this is so fucking cute. It seriously looks like a super cuddly plush put out by a lolita brand or something.

>>7446249
That's because the shapes are based on Japanese cartooning, not the ugly American cartoon. Old school American cartoons were really cute, then the bugs bunny/looney tunes age hit and averything started to look stoned, noodley and ugly.

>>7442686
These cats look like taxidermy to me. Creepy.