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Made for a local client for the Manchester, MI township easter egg hunt and later the Relay for Life run. Took 2.5 days start to finish. (NOT a timeframe I recommend to ANYONE...)
Features:
OLD modified canine base from
beetlecat foamed up to be more rabbit like.
Semi-following eyes/moving aw
Silicone pads from DVC (yes, rabbits don't 'technically' have paw pads, but in actuality they do, they're just furred over.. having pads exposed makes it easier to grip items)
Digiitgrade padding (not secured in at the time of filming so some has shifted a little), including a massive amount of butt padding for fat bunny thighs!
No airbrushing for easy cleaning and care.
Neck needs to be lengthened and padding secured in, but it worked rather well for the event today. First time making a full rabbit suit, second time making a rabbit (ironically both were made within 2 days or so. Previous attempt was 2010? Horrid. Absolutely horrid. Improvement happens with practice!!!!)
There's a video here! http://youtu.be/RVJf8xs_arE
Wanna see the nightmare fuel from 4 years ago?
http://sharpe19.deviantart.com/gall.....rabbit+fursuit
(ignore the "sonny" legs. Those aren't involved with that monstrosity) My recommendation? Don't rush. EVER. It's hard on you, hard on your equipment, and it isn't a helpful thing. Spare your sanity and plan ahead!
Features:
OLD modified canine base from
beetlecat foamed up to be more rabbit like.Semi-following eyes/moving aw
Silicone pads from DVC (yes, rabbits don't 'technically' have paw pads, but in actuality they do, they're just furred over.. having pads exposed makes it easier to grip items)
Digiitgrade padding (not secured in at the time of filming so some has shifted a little), including a massive amount of butt padding for fat bunny thighs!
No airbrushing for easy cleaning and care.
Neck needs to be lengthened and padding secured in, but it worked rather well for the event today. First time making a full rabbit suit, second time making a rabbit (ironically both were made within 2 days or so. Previous attempt was 2010? Horrid. Absolutely horrid. Improvement happens with practice!!!!)
There's a video here! http://youtu.be/RVJf8xs_arE
Wanna see the nightmare fuel from 4 years ago?
http://sharpe19.deviantart.com/gall.....rabbit+fursuit
(ignore the "sonny" legs. Those aren't involved with that monstrosity) My recommendation? Don't rush. EVER. It's hard on you, hard on your equipment, and it isn't a helpful thing. Spare your sanity and plan ahead!
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It also helps to have all materials, all designs, and no specifications. That and I would never want to give this sort of quality to a commissioner. Lots of shortcuts were made to make this possible, resulting in a quality I'm not willing to give to a client that I cannot be there for to make alterations, repairs, etc. I'm left in charge of the suit when not in use so I can maintain and improve when time permits.
"yes, rabbits don't 'technically' have paw pads, but in actuality they do, they're just furred over.. having pads exposed makes it easier to grip items" Well, if you want to get into the 'actuality' of thingssss....
They do not. Not unless our skin could be called that, or any skin without fur on it could be called a pad. The fur on their paws is so thick because it acts as a cushion to absorb weight and shock (while also keeping the rabbit warm) in lieu of having the tough deposits of subcutaneous-fat and heavily callused pads of other mammals. The skin on the bottoms of their feet might be minutely thicker than on the rest of them, maybe, but they shouldn't be called pads by any means. I agree with you about it making it easier to grip things, though, it certainly would, and I can definitely see why you made that choice!
But I suspect I'm being more of an annoying lil' shit than helpful at all :P So, I'm really sorry for annoying you (and probably wasting your time, oh gosh)! I was just... raised my entire life with rabbits and stupidly can't seem to stop talking them ugh ;__;
The suit, though, the suit! It's amazing and adorable and beautiful and you should be so happy with it (especially compared to that first one haha) oh my gods ♥
They do not. Not unless our skin could be called that, or any skin without fur on it could be called a pad. The fur on their paws is so thick because it acts as a cushion to absorb weight and shock (while also keeping the rabbit warm) in lieu of having the tough deposits of subcutaneous-fat and heavily callused pads of other mammals. The skin on the bottoms of their feet might be minutely thicker than on the rest of them, maybe, but they shouldn't be called pads by any means. I agree with you about it making it easier to grip things, though, it certainly would, and I can definitely see why you made that choice!
But I suspect I'm being more of an annoying lil' shit than helpful at all :P So, I'm really sorry for annoying you (and probably wasting your time, oh gosh)! I was just... raised my entire life with rabbits and stupidly can't seem to stop talking them ugh ;__;
The suit, though, the suit! It's amazing and adorable and beautiful and you should be so happy with it (especially compared to that first one haha) oh my gods ♥
Hahaha perhaps I should have specified about the pad thing. I skinned a desert hare once in Arizona. Had tiny little pads like a fox, it was rather adorable. Perhaps a hare ad rabbit are much more different than I thought? I don't work wih them often and can only go from what I've handled mostly.
I don't know much about hares (or their feet, haha), but if that was the case, then they do seem pretty different! I suppose if they're different enough to have their own genus, there's something to it? I know their feet are much more powerful than a rabbit's... maybe pads help? (Or desert hares in particular might develop them to avoid being scorched by the hot sand?)
There was some cheating. Ok a lot of cheating. The body is mostly only serged, hands are 4 fingered machine sewn, padding is from other suits, face seams are glued (only head I've done it to :p figured since it was a resin head the seams could hold it), and the feet are glued. Did 14-16 hour days for two days then about 5 hours the third day? That serger cuts sewing time down a lot. Also helped having that resin base to work off of.
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