Incremental Progress
Had a board meeting, so only got a tiny bit more done — upper big teeth and building out the lower jaw a little.
Had a board meeting, so only got a tiny bit more done — upper big teeth and building out the lower jaw a little.
Step one of the whole project was printing out the pattern template onto card stock and then tracing that onto the foam. We’re using SKS Props branded HD (EVA) foam purchased through Blick’s Art Supplies, in 2mm, 6mm, and 10mm thicknesses.SKS had laid out the template to print as a tiled large print; I reorganized…
Monday night (Mar 11) I finished marking out all the fursuit body pieces (4 front and back panels, 4 sleeve front and back pieces). I then set out to cut them all out (sans seam allowance, as marked). The best way to do this is from the back with a sharp blade, cutting just through…
Here’s how Rocky’s head looks after assembling and doing a first shave on the furring.The fur is not yet glued to the head, and the nose and teeth are just pinned on. Fur also needs to be trimmed back from the eyeholes slightly.
This is what I put together to explain my reasoning for entering Rocky in Historical with some notes about his design and construction. Click on the image or this link to open the PDF,
Edit: I’ve updated the gallery with the images it was lacking. Rocky’s hind feet are always drawn as long and plain grey, with only two toes suggested by a midline, and no paw pads on the underside) My costume version of Rocky’s feet are being built on a pair of simple grey deck shoes with…
The last couple days I’ve been working on finishing finer details on Rocky’s face. The quick mockup I published earlier wasn’t bad, but I noticed a couple of things.First and foremost, Rocket J Squirrel does not have a significant cleft in his upper lip; in all the original cartoons its almost always a smooth line…