owner of
@kemonokapi
~ ๐
@cincyon
. enjoyer of bang dream, love live, fursuits, and okapi. misaki okusawa liker. Design and branding head of
@NWIdolfest
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I finished my first realistic suit yesterday! Except for whiskers, I havenโt decided what to use yet ๐
He is a stoat, and a personal suit. The base was made by
@smallyuXP
Iโll make the rest later
My friends came over and put up shelves for my care bears. Not all of them fit but all the solid colour ones do at least! I do wish the fan was not right there but thatโs how it is lol
Hi everyone. We are really going to need some help for the immediate future. Funeral costs as well as help with our living situation, which is going to rapidly decline very soon. Anything helps. Please read:
That premade I was working on is almost done. If you want a cool pink/white/grey critter from us before MFF we will be auctioning it as a partial soon ๐ starting at our partial base price of $3600 USD
Just a lil heads up
Just saying one time someone offered us 30k for a suit and it was basically going to change our lives and help us eliminate our queue and make huge life improvements. But then it was fake so
Anyways what Iโm saying is we should all be happy when makers get real offers like that
Sometimes being a fursuit maker is so frustrating. I feel like we have to justify better treatment constantly, whether itโs a personal decision to raise prices or if we have genuine concerns about consโฆ this is a rough job man, from all angles
Every time an auction like this happens I gotta sigh. like 25% of that is immediately going to taxes to begin withโฆ
There are SO many makers that still charge 4K or less, you donโt need a suit by a โhousehold nameโ maker. Why insult artists for their success??
I usually stay quiet about stuff like this but. topic of the week rising sun kemono is doing EN EF TEES now! They straight up retweeted their own project on their fursuit business twitter. So I feel like itโs okay for me to say please avoid them forever now
What is it called when you have 1 thing scheduled for the day and you canโt do anything else productive until that single thing is completed. Today it was the UPS guy coming to pick up a box, literally a 5 second task
I went from the hospital to the con to meet miku ito again! It was worth it for this moment (photo of a photo sorry)
Miku voices Kokoro Tsurumaki, one of my favourite characters and the lead vocalist of the band this fursuit and character are based on
Is there any interest in a completed foam base with eyes, ready to fur? Iโm not sure Iโll have the motivation to finish it but I was working on a dragon premade
anyways here are before and after pics of menma. I was prepared to make such edits and Iโll list what I changed in the thread. Menma was made by atelier amanojaku and was purchased as an adoptable from furstar.
trying very hard to make our home Comfortable. when i lived with my parents it was very difficult to be at home. all of the space felt so hostile, like i wasnโt supposed to be there. here are my beloved okapi, and also a lobster and some pokemon, and a fish shaped blanket
Hi all. Unfortunately my mother had multiple heart attacks and arrests this morning. We have been at the hospitals all day. She is not doing well, so understandably I will not be working for some days. We donโt know what will happen yet, but Iโll try to keep folks updated. Thanks
Iโm willing to take one head base commission to be finished in May. It includes our cast foam face, ears, dye sublimated kemono eyes, vents, etc. The price is $1000 USD, higher if it is more complex. Pls DM for character approval if you want this slot!
Put air tags in your bagsโฆ mine is saving my life right now. Weโve been waiting for 1 bag for hours that we know is here and I was able to show employees where it is so they can look for it. If we didnโt have that AirTag idk what we would do
Pretty upsetting to read assumptions from con staff about what the suits belonging to my friends are used for. I have been a handler for the water dog and it is not what they are saying it is at all. Just disappointing. I have suits on two legs that are more hazardous to wear
Today I got picked up after allowing a hug. Please donโt do that, I have suspenders with hard bits under my suit and it hurt quite a bit to be squeezed so hard ):
Been thinking of creating a document of eastern makers who take overseas commissions. I want to make it easier for folks to find and pay these artists!!
this critter is based on 2D/IRL anime girls band, Hello, Happy World! and includes the image colours of all band members as well as their funky circus theme. their band logo is on her back ๐ฆ
Anyone wanna preclaim this little adopt fellow? Iโll finish today or tomorrow while I rest โบ๏ธ offers over $30 would be nice, Iโll do a back ref too! Iโll close offers in a couple hours
My moms memorial service was yesterday. Thank you to everyone who donated, we were able to cover the costs of everything so far. I didnโt realize how expensive these services can be ๐ญ but we are doing ok, having costs covered for her was the most important part
noticed a lot of minors following me and sometimes I accidentally interact and I donโt really want that, so I added ๐ to my bio. I donโt make 18+ content or anything, Iโm just 30 years old and I donโt really vibe. Under 18 pls unfollow, Iโll go thru my followers list slowly
In 2020 I paid $231 for a 3x1 gallon flex foam cast kit, today it was $311 before tax for the exact same brand, type and amount. Itโs happening with almost every material, cut your makers some slack while we play catch up with prices ;-;
I think Iโll take a break from the fursuit making part of Twitter for a bit ๐ Iโve read some pretty discouraging comments in the last 24 hours. I really encourage my fellow artists to not discredit the hard work of others or make assumptions about their working lives.
Please support Asian fursuit makers instead of these guys. We are working to compile a comprehensive list of East Asian makers for everyone to follow and support. There are amazing makers who would love support from overseas
Iโve had a lot of questions about eye mesh for dye sub recently. It is white PVC mesh commonly used in PCs. Holes are 0.5mm and mesh thickness is 0.45mm. Go on alibaba and search for mesh then message a manufacturer to buy mesh with any hole size/thickness you want
Just because it has come up, if someone tells you they are friends โwith kemonokapiโ or claims they can influence our commission selection process in any way due to that friendship, we probably have no idea who they are
Friend picked me up some incredible artwork by
@gravitydusty
at AX. If you love fromsoft and Elden Ring especially, you need to be following them and giving them money
(They came home in a tube so theyโre being flattened right now)
Kinda wild but the stars aligned and we viewed and had an offer accepted on a house in the last couple of days, all while Iโve been sick ๐ฉ
If inspection goes well we move at the end of November! Hopefully work wonโt suffer too much but Iโm going to do my best to balance it
Itโs an overwhelming feeling of not knowing what to do. I donโt talk about it much, but our dad is not in our lives anymore (deservedly so, he is not a good person). So now losing our mom is very difficult. My sister is only 18, and I will be responsible for her from now on.
Makers, we should probably actually email them about thisโฆ dedicated fursuit space would be amazing but I truly think this model is terrible and unhelpful for us as makers. I would love a space at MFF for us to share work that doesnโt come across as a display we pay to be in
A note from the Artist Marketplace and Fursuit Corner team;
The spirit of the Artists Menagerie is to provide an environment where everyone feels involved in the process, not pressured to perform.
Please reach out to artistsalley
@furfest
.org for clarification on our guidelines.
Some photos for the curious! Still a few things to do but mostly ready. If youโre looking for the usual horrible fur hoard every maker has, weโve quarantined it in the garage ๐ณ
Flipped menma inside out, and repatterned the crotch area big time. Dropped it 8-10 inches, then removed her arm flaps and extended them 7 more inches down the sides (they ended at my waist before). Patterning now to make some new padding
i feel like i'm seeing way too many furry folk's personal, private life issues on my timeline this past week. just seems like a lot of stuff that random people online shouldn't have to see and don't really have to know. feels awkward to have Knowledge
Fursuit owners, especially makers, what do you do with the older versions of your suit heads? Of like, your sona. Part of me wants to keep them forever and part of me wants to get them out of my house lol
Cinder will fly home from Hawaii earlier than planned to be with me, and we will continue to work once every step of my momโs passing is resolved. I think my passion for what we do will help me a lot. I will always have that drive to make and I know my mom is proud of us.
If anyone else is interested in a foam base commission, I will take one slot for completion by end of July/August. It is the foam base, comes with eyes, fans, any noses or build accessories you need. Offer over $1000 USD! You can DM me for character consideration
Iโm willing to take one head base commission to be finished in May. It includes our cast foam face, ears, dye sublimated kemono eyes, vents, etc. The price is $1000 USD, higher if it is more complex. Pls DM for character approval if you want this slot!
I donโt think I showed it off yet but here is my big ol bang dream tattoo. With so much going on, it took over a year to do ๐ฉ pics are from my artist, nembone on instagram. The big circle logo was already there so he worked with it.
Half-fictional girl band, Hello Happy World!
Everyone wants to support us until weโve become โtooโ successful in their personal opinion. After that weโre suddenly only in it for the money??? This job is so demanding and demoralizing itโs a wonder some of us have even lasted 10 years to begin with
Lately I am very thankful for having such good clients. I know it can be difficult for some makers, I feel very lucky. Iโm also endlessly thankful to the fellow makers who have supported me and lifted our work up. The confidence I gained from them has really helpedโฆ
@FurFest
I think there is a big misunderstanding about fursuit making hereโฆ many aspects of making require loud machinery, safety equipment, ventilation, access to equipment that is unreasonable to bring to a con spaceโฆ itโs more than quietly gluing and sewing!
I feel like itโs only a matter of time before someone submits an A/I generated image of a fursuit to me as a reference. Really discouraging to think about, I donโt want to mimic an A/I or have my work be compared to a generated image. Trust artist vision or donโt ):
So I can get my โtubes tiedโ here in Canada for free. Iโve though about doing it for a long time. Anyone here gone through it? Iโm mostly wondering about the recovery time and such.
As much as Iโd love to I donโt think I can just get it all removed ๐ฉ
Everyone is burnt out it seems. I have been too, for a long long time. Past lower pricing means more work needs to be done to keep up with life and thatโs just how it is. Combine that with high cost of living area and itโs inevitable. Trying now to catch up on that old queueโฆ
Is there any interest in a completed foam base with eyes, ready to fur? Iโm not sure Iโll have the motivation to finish it but I was working on a dragon premade
Tbh I am most excited for my next panel submission to ANW, which will be all about Chinese fursuit makers (the legitimate ones!) with a local Chinese maker based right here in the PNW (
@Canis_Major_C
)
I want to give those makers as much exposure as possible ๐
If you know anyone thinking about buying a suit from them, PLEASE help them reconsider. This is just one terrible thing on a long list of reasons they should be avoided. Itโs very tempting because they are an affordable way into kemono butโฆ
Going through some old designs, this was for me but I donโt really vibe with it. If anyone would like to buy it so I can have a nice dinner or something, feeling a bit down today!
$100+ offers for this lil fella, can change the name of course.