Why are people booping with camera lenses?
Hard to tell how close you are with a snout you can’t feel maybe
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?
You can always try!
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.
Really only for tempered glass like car windows. Regular glass would just get a little ding.
A little ding is enough to render a camera lens pretty useless.
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 hard plastic 3d-printed parts started supplanting the more labor-intensive custom molded pieces.
At the time when this was posted, hard plastic parts 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.
That makes at least four of us.
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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.
Edit: more about 3D printed suit bases instead of just more materials. Whoops.
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.
I should have assumed, but I am just now realizing the suits cost that much and that there are infact fursuit repair shops. I would have thought it was going into a fabric store… Living over here in my isolated ignorance I guess lol
(Comically I had to go back and edit pursuit to fursuit because it wasn’t in my phones standard diction)
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.
They’ve been around a long time actually. Somebody had to make mascot costumes, and i imagine that skillset translates pretty well to fursuits
Mascots are just commercially acceptable fursonas
Mascots are corporate / sports fursonas.
And the people behind those corporate fursonas hate it. Horny furries drove cereal mascot Tony the Tiger off of Twitter. XD
They are truly knights of the new era
