/fur/ - Furry★

>>116670 (OP)

You could always just get a partial first and then make it into a full should you ever want to

What material do you use to make them?

>>116699

I've got two suits that were (more or less) made myself, with plans for purchasing a third a lil later on in the year. Still gotta find someone who'll do my raccoon justice.

Also Pink Dog quit the fandom, afaik.

>>116670 (OP)

On the full vs partial question;

Full has a lot more expense associated with it, expense that can be intimidating if you're jumping right into fursuiting. I'd start with a partial for sure, just to make sure you can actually handle the sport of fursuiting. Even with a cooling vest it can be unbearably hot.

Partial is nice because you could upgrade (either through a relation with your maker, or through your own sewing skill) to a planti-bodysuit at the very least, or a digi one if you've got more experience. They're also a lot easier to store (you don't want to go folding your fursuits and letting them crease-- and no body suit = less brushing needed). They're flexible in environment; able to go out in hotter weather, and if you can pair up outfits with them, like the bird here >>116699

Overall, my recommendation would be to get a partial and see how it feels wearing it to a convention (or whatever you plan on doing with it), and then eventually upgrading to full if you feel like you need the walking sauna experience.

>>116699

>>116704

>>116711

Thanks for the advice, partial it is. I was kind of leaning that way since I don't have anyone to help me make a duct tape dummy anyways. Having trouble trying to find someone to commission from since no one seems to do the eyes I want, might just bite the bullet and try to make it myself. Who knows, could be fun.

>>116709

People typically use a mix of soft and hard foams for a head base but more recently they've been 3D printing them. Arms are usually just faux fur sewn into shape and feet are almost always a mix of furniture foam and faux fur with EVA foam on the bottom for padding.

>>116670 (OP)

>>116711

>>116704

>Getting suits in parts

Not the best idea, because a suit head made for a partial and a suit head made for a fullsuit are different enough in scale that you can't really mix and match, the partial head on fullsuit making the head look tiny, and the fullsuit head worn partially being way too big for the body. The suit itself visibly bulks the body up at least a little bit, and if you don't compensate the head size for this bulk-up, it's going to look disproportionate. You can kinda see this in action with >>116684, in the fullsuit pics the head almost looks too small for their body, but it works for what they're going for, while the one in the stairwell, while slightly obscured by the pose and walls, you can see the head is at best approaching way too large for the body, despite being the exact same head.

Unless you have one of those makers who makes all their heads at the complete wrong scale anyway, I've seen a couple makers that their thing is to just make absolutely massive heads that look wrong on everything/anything, you need to make a decision from the beginning and stick with it.

>>116699

I have a "fur"suit, that's not really a fursuit as it has no fur, it's a dragon and that's the farthest I'm gonna dox myself about it. Made it myself, and while there's plenty of design limitations making it the first time both due to resources and elements that didn't work that I had to compromise on (digitigrade stilts turning into digitigrade padding after I failed to make the stilts for example), I'm pretty happy with how it came out, but absolutely want to start again at some point.

>>116712

>since no one seems to do the eyes I want

What kind of eyes are we talking? I can personally attest there's no better way to get what you want than to do it yourself, but you need some willingness to go through the time and effort to at least try to do it properly, no one likes it when someone clearly half-asses something.

>>116712

>People typically use a mix of soft and hard foams for a head base but more recently they've been 3D printing them.

I've been doing 3d stuff recently, so I'll definitely try doing that.