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"Nothing's impossible. The word itself says I'M POSSIBLE!!!"- Katherine Hepburn
"Courage is bein scared to death but saddling up anyway"-John Wayne
Hi all.
For the most part I'm giving the gist of what's been happening lately and yeah.
To start off since I've been pretty excited about it. I've been working pretty hard on my demon fox fursuit. As of tonight I feel a bit more confident about finishing it on schedule though I still have quite a ways to go. Though now I have the padding prepped and patterned, the Komodo is 90 percent done which was one of my big stress points other than ordering supplies and finding the funds for them on my budget. While the fur may not be exactly what I wanted it will work pretty well and I suppose I could always fix it later on when I have the time and funds. The good news is Takeshi's complex markings will be able to be airbrushed on as soon as I fur it.
Does anyone know how to figure out how much resin you need to slush cast a mask?
I've got a lot to do though some how I'll get this all done in time for Halloween.
Now for a less than positive bit that's slowed me down everywhere. I've been having a combination of annual bad migraines along with allergies and a sinus infection lately. It's cause my art to drop to a little bit a day. I've actually had some of my profs ask me if I'm alright when I'm in class lately things have been so rough. Though if I owe you art I promise I'll get it done soon. Which brings me to Comic Jumper.
Comic Jumper Updates
Spring already knows this but, for the rest of you Comic Jumper now has both a Patreon and a website sort of on Comic Fury that it'll be posted to in addition to here and da. I've been working toward getting the thing posted on the rest of my websites e.g.. Sofurry, Weasyl. Though my internet despite getting fixed has been a bit unreliable.
http://vjcoonscomicjumper.thecomics.....es.com/comics/
As for future pages. The script has gone on despite the lack of pages being posted on schedule though I'm going to try and get it back on schedule soon and maybe post a few mini comics and things to make up for the time gone by without. I may include having some sort of halloween themed segment come up eventually as well. Though a Halloween themed YCH will come up if I can get everything caught up soon.
Now back to a few RL positives. As some of you read in my previous journal I have gone to my first official furmeet and had a lot of fun and met a lot of cool furs in my area. This past weekend I went to a unofficial meet with a group a few I met at the Icehouse most of them were new to me. We went to the movies and eventually hung out at Geeksboro and had a lot of fun along the way. I'm looking forward to going to the upcoming Pullen Park meet too. Though I think I'll leave Major at home since I need to install a fan in him and I'm more interested in getting to know the other furs in the area that will be there. I'm really looking forward to future meets as well.
Now I think that covers most of what's been going on other than a Mattie update.
Mattie has real bad hay fever the vet hasn't ruled out food allergies though we feel pretty certain like my own that it's coming from the environment. Though other than that she's been doing good.
Neither of us can wait till Fall Break comes and we can go down to Myrtle for a good break. I don't expect to run into any local furs down there but, if I do it'd be pretty cool in my opinion especially since we're considering moving down to SC.
i promise this is the last of the updates on this journal though you can ignore this part I've just gotten pretty eager about working on Okto in the future especially since I've been talking with a friend about AC 2016.
Back to Okto updates. I still need to find a camera lens from the 90s back or a camera aperture from around that time span since that's the part i'm after. So far I haven't had much luck yet though. Especially since I don't really know too many thrift stores as well as the fact I don't know when they started doing the type of aperture I've got in my camera that wouldn't have the effect I want.
For those that don't know what a aperture is here's a example of what you'd find inside most cameras - http://www.shutterhogs.com/wp-conte.....0/aperture.jpg
and here's a gif of one from the back and how it works - http://digital-photography-school.c.....rture-anim.gif
I'm thinking about using the padding from Takeshi in the suit though I'm not sure yet. I may just make new padding all around though I'll probably use a similar feet paw design as the one I'm going to use on Takeshi especially if my experiment works out.
Thanks to Stewart Bray I'm feeling a bit more confident about sculpting a good chunk of a mask though I'm still thinking about doing a hyena blank that I could sell on Etsy when I get my store up and running.
Lately I've been sketching in my sketchbook a lot with ideas for the suit like how to make his ears move if for some reason I don't want to go animatronic and keep the animatronics to the gears and eye though I'm still feeling pretty confident about doing LED eyes. I still haven't figured out the mechanics of his tail though I'm still leaning toward making most of his robotics vacuum forming style if I can find a shop vac the proper suction power and figure out the mechanics I'd hate to make a robot leg that looks cool but, it's welded together. haha
On another note I have his wings half done though they may be altered eventually all I majorly need to do is get another PVC elbow joint, calibrate the articulation, mount it and apply red canvas like material to the wings. I'm hoping to learn some leather work soon too so I can do leather straps for both the wings, his custom goggles as well as his belt. I'm thinking about after a bit of research doing him a custom set of steampunk clothing but, I'll cross that bridge when I get there. One thing I can say though is I'm glad I watched a steampunk seminar panel hosted by Starship Isabella before I took a old clock apart I did not know about those steampunk mines inside of them and I'd definitely be one of those that would wonder whats inside the round disk shaped container.
I'm still unsure about how I'm going to do the animatronics though. I'm still struggling with finding tutorials or even people to ask on the subject at but, I'll keep looking. Right now I'm thinking about as soon as I get the funds to get the fur and do the biological bodysuit then get the rest when I get supplies that way I can take time to get the supplies without going broke.
For the most part I'm giving the gist of what's been happening lately and yeah.
To start off since I've been pretty excited about it. I've been working pretty hard on my demon fox fursuit. As of tonight I feel a bit more confident about finishing it on schedule though I still have quite a ways to go. Though now I have the padding prepped and patterned, the Komodo is 90 percent done which was one of my big stress points other than ordering supplies and finding the funds for them on my budget. While the fur may not be exactly what I wanted it will work pretty well and I suppose I could always fix it later on when I have the time and funds. The good news is Takeshi's complex markings will be able to be airbrushed on as soon as I fur it.
Does anyone know how to figure out how much resin you need to slush cast a mask?
I've got a lot to do though some how I'll get this all done in time for Halloween.
Now for a less than positive bit that's slowed me down everywhere. I've been having a combination of annual bad migraines along with allergies and a sinus infection lately. It's cause my art to drop to a little bit a day. I've actually had some of my profs ask me if I'm alright when I'm in class lately things have been so rough. Though if I owe you art I promise I'll get it done soon. Which brings me to Comic Jumper.
Comic Jumper Updates
Spring already knows this but, for the rest of you Comic Jumper now has both a Patreon and a website sort of on Comic Fury that it'll be posted to in addition to here and da. I've been working toward getting the thing posted on the rest of my websites e.g.. Sofurry, Weasyl. Though my internet despite getting fixed has been a bit unreliable.
http://vjcoonscomicjumper.thecomics.....es.com/comics/
As for future pages. The script has gone on despite the lack of pages being posted on schedule though I'm going to try and get it back on schedule soon and maybe post a few mini comics and things to make up for the time gone by without. I may include having some sort of halloween themed segment come up eventually as well. Though a Halloween themed YCH will come up if I can get everything caught up soon.
Now back to a few RL positives. As some of you read in my previous journal I have gone to my first official furmeet and had a lot of fun and met a lot of cool furs in my area. This past weekend I went to a unofficial meet with a group a few I met at the Icehouse most of them were new to me. We went to the movies and eventually hung out at Geeksboro and had a lot of fun along the way. I'm looking forward to going to the upcoming Pullen Park meet too. Though I think I'll leave Major at home since I need to install a fan in him and I'm more interested in getting to know the other furs in the area that will be there. I'm really looking forward to future meets as well.
Now I think that covers most of what's been going on other than a Mattie update.
Mattie has real bad hay fever the vet hasn't ruled out food allergies though we feel pretty certain like my own that it's coming from the environment. Though other than that she's been doing good.
Neither of us can wait till Fall Break comes and we can go down to Myrtle for a good break. I don't expect to run into any local furs down there but, if I do it'd be pretty cool in my opinion especially since we're considering moving down to SC.
i promise this is the last of the updates on this journal though you can ignore this part I've just gotten pretty eager about working on Okto in the future especially since I've been talking with a friend about AC 2016.
Back to Okto updates. I still need to find a camera lens from the 90s back or a camera aperture from around that time span since that's the part i'm after. So far I haven't had much luck yet though. Especially since I don't really know too many thrift stores as well as the fact I don't know when they started doing the type of aperture I've got in my camera that wouldn't have the effect I want.
For those that don't know what a aperture is here's a example of what you'd find inside most cameras - http://www.shutterhogs.com/wp-conte.....0/aperture.jpg
and here's a gif of one from the back and how it works - http://digital-photography-school.c.....rture-anim.gif
I'm thinking about using the padding from Takeshi in the suit though I'm not sure yet. I may just make new padding all around though I'll probably use a similar feet paw design as the one I'm going to use on Takeshi especially if my experiment works out.
Thanks to Stewart Bray I'm feeling a bit more confident about sculpting a good chunk of a mask though I'm still thinking about doing a hyena blank that I could sell on Etsy when I get my store up and running.
Lately I've been sketching in my sketchbook a lot with ideas for the suit like how to make his ears move if for some reason I don't want to go animatronic and keep the animatronics to the gears and eye though I'm still feeling pretty confident about doing LED eyes. I still haven't figured out the mechanics of his tail though I'm still leaning toward making most of his robotics vacuum forming style if I can find a shop vac the proper suction power and figure out the mechanics I'd hate to make a robot leg that looks cool but, it's welded together. haha
On another note I have his wings half done though they may be altered eventually all I majorly need to do is get another PVC elbow joint, calibrate the articulation, mount it and apply red canvas like material to the wings. I'm hoping to learn some leather work soon too so I can do leather straps for both the wings, his custom goggles as well as his belt. I'm thinking about after a bit of research doing him a custom set of steampunk clothing but, I'll cross that bridge when I get there. One thing I can say though is I'm glad I watched a steampunk seminar panel hosted by Starship Isabella before I took a old clock apart I did not know about those steampunk mines inside of them and I'd definitely be one of those that would wonder whats inside the round disk shaped container.
I'm still unsure about how I'm going to do the animatronics though. I'm still struggling with finding tutorials or even people to ask on the subject at but, I'll keep looking. Right now I'm thinking about as soon as I get the funds to get the fur and do the biological bodysuit then get the rest when I get supplies that way I can take time to get the supplies without going broke.
