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Semi-Realistic Gray Fox Partial Suit!

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Just finished this guy yesterday :)



I was inspired by photos of gray fox mounts, they have so many colors and textures of fur on their bodies, really pretty! I sought out to experiment with a stylized realism head. In foaming, I used photos of taxidermy head forms as a reference, which was actually harder than I imagined it would be... Canine heads are more horizontal than they are vertical, which makes it tricky to blend with a human's skull shape vs a character that's already highly abstracted from the original animal.

I didn't take a whooole lot of WIP photos, mostly quick cellphone shots to share with Twitter. Here's one of in in the middle of foaming, before ears, eyelids, or nose. The muzzle felt kinda long to me, but the taxidermy forms had pretty long snouts too, so I just went with it and hoped for the best.

The eyes are glass blanks from VanDyke's... I know resin is cheaper, but I just don't like how they look. The glass eyes have a shallower curve and come in larger sizes, and are crystal clear, they don't yellow with age either.


I worked on this project whenever I had a free moment, nights and weekends. Here is a photo of it pre-shaving. xD Looks like a schnauzer fox hybrid, huh? I would have just used teddy white for the muzzle and brows, but I didn't have any in stock, and part of the reason I wanted to do this project in the first place was to get rid of some excess fabric. I wouldn't really recommend shaving down large areas of fox fur, it's far less forgiving than say DF fur. I also had a really rough time seeing what I was doing under all the fluff, so it was kind of a pain in the butt to fur the head with.


Anyway, this is the finished head! I ended doing some paint shading... I like it! I tried to have a light touch because too much paint makes a head look gross. I hope I did well! I usually don't really do any paint work on my heads because my usual style is a clean cut toon style.


A few detail shots. The nose is my usual method of carved foam dipped in Plasti-dip. Vision is out the tearducts.


The gloves are mostly hand-sewn and have custom cast rubber claws and pawpads, which are firmly stuck on with E6000. Just a little bit of shading on the gray part of the outer arm.


A picture of all the parts together. The tail is just a regular stuffed polyfil tail with two nylon beltloops. It also has some nice blending work done on it.


And a pic of the whole ensemble together on me! :) I'm a fairly small person, it also looks good on someone larger.

I also made a little video showing off the various features of the costume here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp3RweHyKyA&feature=youtu.be

Finally, this costume is for sale! The auction is almost 50% off the price it would have cost to commission, pretty good deal :D That auction link is here: http://www.thedealersden.com/auction_details.php?name=gray-fox-partial-suit-by-lobitaworks&auction_id=113251
Feel free to pass the link on to anyone you think might be interested. Thanks for lookin!

I hope to continue to do experimental stuff in my spare time, it's fun and pretty low pressure. ^_^

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