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• Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I love the idea of someone expecting to be booped with a camera so they insert a thin glass vial filled with fake blood in their suit nose, so when someone boops them, they can grab their suit nose and go, ‘Aaagh! My node! You broge by node!’ as they seemingly get a bloody nose.

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• knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  More or less, yeah.

  Fabrics and polyurethane foam used to be the only options for fursuits, but this started shifting over the last 10 years or so. Some enterprising furries started molding components like teeth, claws, and noses from soft rubber materials, which experienced a brief renaissance before 3d-printed parts started supplanting the more labor-intensive custom molded pieces.

  At the time when this was posted, hard plastic noses had become common for new fursuits, but now that 3d printers can use TPU and other flexible materials, they’ve become the new standard. Many fursuit makers actually use this technique to print the whole frame of the fursuit head, making them more durable while also improving airflow over the old-style carved polyurethane foam head bases;

  A pic of an old-style carved polyurethane foam head base.

  A pic of a new-style 3d printed TPU head base.

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  • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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  • Chivera@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Subscribe

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I always found it weird how fursuit snoots widen as they expand forward, unlike the animals they depict. I know it enhances the cartoony look, but it looks too exaggerated for my dumb tastes

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    • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are realistically proportioned fursuit heads too, they look AWESOME

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  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is so cool. Shit like this is why I love being in community with furries, despite not being one myself. I’m always awed by the creativity

    (Plus furries always throw the best parties)

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    • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I love it too, especially with how quickly the community evolves. New techniques catch on and spread like wildfire, and we make a great indicator species for the health of online spaces.

      (Can confirm about the parties too =3)

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    • DBCooper@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      *pawed

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  • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Could you address the booping context?

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    • knightly@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That feels like part of the joke to me, I’ve never heard of someone’s nose getting damaged by a camera boop. XD

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  • kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I would also like to subscribe to your newsletter

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  • 2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What the other two people said

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    • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lol, I don’t have one, but I post on Lemmy a lot, so there’s that. =3

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  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks for sharing this info, because you’ve given me some interesting ideas to ponder. My personal craft domain is garment making, and in recent years, I’ve been having a lot of fun exploring stuff that exists in the space between “clothing” and “costume”. I don’t have much experience in 3D printing, so the stuff about 3D printing flexible materials like TPU is new to me. I should explore this more, because I bet I could make some awesome stuff with this method (such as in corsetry)

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    • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Definitely do look into this, and check out some of the work folks are already doing with combining fabrics and 3d printing. =D

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ8Gg0dPx0g

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  • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That makes at least four of us.

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    • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      XD

      I have an approximate knowledge of many things and a fascination with new tech, but I’ve only been posting on Lemmy recently. Guess I oughta get started on a real newsletter. XD

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Could you imagine having to take your thousand dollar fursuit head to a shop for repairs after only a few outings? I’d be pissed.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I should have assumed, but I am just now realizing the suits cost that much and that there are on fact pursuit repair shops. I would have thought it was going into a fabric store… Living over here in my isolated ignorance I guess lol

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    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They’ve been around a long time actually. Somebody had to make mascot costumes, and i imagine that skillset translates pretty well to fursuits

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    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They’re expensive for the same kind of reasons that getting a tailor to custom make a normal suit from scratch would be expensive. Takes a lot of labor and only a relatively small pool of people have the relevant skills, plus some of the material costs add up.

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  • knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That sort of wardrobe malfunction is not terribly uncommon since fursuit-making is still mostly a cottage industry where each piece is a one-off custom, but most reputable fursuit-makers offer a limited-time warranty to cover minor alterations and repairs.

    Furry conventions also usually have someone offering repair services (sometimes even for free) in the dealer’s den in addition to the tables selling everything from parts and accessories to entire pre-made fullsuits.

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This would iterative engineering design.

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  • BobWehadababyitsaboy@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    intelligent iterative engineering design

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Arms race between fursuit noses and camera lenses when?

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• ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why are people booping with camera lenses?

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  • spinne@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hard to tell how close you are with a snout you can’t feel maybe

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    • ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I suppose in a crowded convention space where you’re trying to get full lengths of people you could get to that distance? Surely you’d still want a longer lens though otherwise everything’s going to be wildly distorted?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    selfies?

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    • ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I suppose some ILCs could be used for selfies

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• null@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I gained this unwanted knowledge involuntarily, but am more cultured for it.

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You can remove that little tip from bus hammers and glue them to the noses in order to instantly shatter any glass like material that comes into contact with it. Allegedly.

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• quoll@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  lamarck has entered the chat

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• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pretty sure the nose on mine might not withstand repeated boops, but depends on what they’re made out of. Someone already pointed out something to the extent of how there is more choice in what material is used to make the suit. So, kinda depends on material used.

  I’m pretty sure I’ve seen in the past at least a few suits on the more expensive side using actual hard, boop resistant, materials for the nose. Couldn’t tell you the material since I’m not an expert.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    dude idk. like, it depends. some folk, they still have some proprioception in their fursuits. some people, they take is as license to mosh and smash into people and “oops i couldn’t tell where i was”. I was in a mummer’s play a few christmases. i played the dragon one year. Had to build the suit because the person who played it the previous year stole it. Made the head out of… fuck i can’t even remember. A can? half inch foam? a hula hoop? some fabric and some makeup? I was inspired by Gamera but I think people thought ninja turtles. It was sturdy, must’ve looked pretty decent too because when i checked out the show 20 years later they were still using my shitty old dragon suit, just theseus’d with a few repairs.

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• ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They are truly knights of the new era

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