Tephra wip
Sewing the hair together took all day, but the hair is finally done and attached! Next stop will be attaching the lining and giving everything a good trim before moving onto the face
2025-02-01 05:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Sewing the hair together took all day, but the hair is finally done and attached! Next stop will be attaching the lining and giving everything a good trim before moving onto the face
2025-02-01 05:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostA mountain of hand sewing later and we've got the hood finished! Ok, ok we're not actually done, we still need to make the hair and than attach the lining.
2025-01-31 04:25:47 +0000 UTC View PostSince the neck is so complicated we went ahead and duct taped the neck as well instead of patterning it seperatly. That said we did a mockup of the markings and are just waiting on customer approval before we start cutting everything out
Did some trimming on the tail at our customers request to make the markings pop a bit more. Also got the base ready to fur.
2025-01-30 02:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostWe finished up the paws today and made the tail, with those components done its onto the head!
2025-01-29 05:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostMeant to post these earlier as I was working but it slipped my mind! I have one paw completely finished and the second one is almost done, I just need to sew the lining down and do the final trim. Once I've done that it will be onto the tail.
2025-01-28 05:37:53 +0000 UTC View PostAfter spending way to much time fighting with my printer I got two ear molds made and was able to cast these bad bois. Super happy how they came out, I can't wait to see how these look furred!
2025-01-25 22:56:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe remaining fur for Tephra's suit arrived today, meaning we were able to work on these handpaws again. Lots of hand sewing and ever more trimming later and we've finished the tops of the paws, now we just need to do the bottom, which will have twice as many markings. Rip my hands.
2025-01-23 02:45:14 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised we have completed this month's Monthly Patreon Bonus, which is a Tutorial and Pattern for creating Plantigrade Sockpaws, with optional Mochi Pawpads. This tutorial expands on our Digitgrade Sockpaw pattern, changing some of the problems we encountered with it and streamlining the assembly process. We hope you folk...
2025-01-21 22:38:45 +0000 UTC View PostVictory! The mold for the ear worked, and while there is definite room for improvement in the mold it did in fact work! Which is great news. Once our pla arrives we'll queue up the second ear mold to print and get it casted asap. In the meantime I'm going to get the eyes queued for printing.
As for the patreon tutorial...
Alrighty! We got the hyena base cast and carved and took some quick pics using the prototype eye we made. We also printed a mini version of the new ear mold and did a test cast. After some tweaks to the molds shape we've queued it up for printing at the full scale. So while that runs in the background we're gonna get the base...
2025-01-20 07:31:35 +0000 UTC View PostMold is all finished printing! There are few cosmetic flaws on the pink half which we repaired with some apoxie sculpt. We'll let it cure overnight before we cast our first base from this mold! :)
2025-01-19 00:22:52 +0000 UTC View PostI've wanted to get into 3D printing TPU, as it's so versatile in Fursuit Making, however, I've had a lot of struggles with it, and frankly, I don't have the time right now to dedicate to learning. However, I'd still like to streamline how I do certain parts. In the past, I would cast everything from head bases, to pawpads, to...
2025-01-17 19:35:11 +0000 UTC View PostThis took way longer than it should have to make. Between my sublimation printer having issues and my 3D printer I spent most of the day just trouble shooting my equipment. But I came out victorious in the end!
I need to make a few minor tweaks to the eye blanks, as the walls on the current iteration are a bit too thi...
Mini cast came out pretty well, just need to make a few tweaks to the mold to stabilize it as right now it wants to topple over. So tomorrow I'll make the adjustments and get this bad boi queued for printing.
2025-01-16 06:01:12 +0000 UTC View PostGot the eyes 3D modelled and iris drawn up. I was also able to finally get a (mostly) successful test print of the mold. I want to make a few tweaks to it before I do the full scale print, but progress is being made!
2025-01-16 04:58:57 +0000 UTC View PostThese paws are decently complex, but i have all the grey and black cut and sewn. I'm just waiting for the red and orange furs to arrive so I can finish the paws. In the meantime I'm working on getting the mold printed for their base. Once the printer stops being a butt that is.
Once I have the mold (properly) printing...
Hey folks, my apologies for the radio silence. I've been working on the plantigrade sockpaw pattern/tutorial, and while I do have some final tweaks I want to make to the pattern, I'm pretty happy with it so far. You can expect a tutorial before the end of the month! Aside from that, I've also been working on a new Hyena base,...
2025-01-14 04:11:50 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, this time, I swear I'm done with the website. Honestly, I just need to leave it alone at this point, as good will have to be good enough; otherwise, I'll be at this for all eternity. Aside from some shiny new graphics and an updated layout, I also updated all the info on the website, including completely rewriting the T...
2025-01-07 02:40:52 +0000 UTC View PostAs boring as it is, it needs to be done. Good news is that the website is all up to date now and we've made pretty good headway on our taxes. Admittedly I did waste 2 days getting hyper focused on a game, but decent progress was made overall. I'm still waiting for Zion's DTD which is still stuck in customs. Honestly Fedex is ...
2025-01-05 06:40:45 +0000 UTC View PostI spent all day yesterday working on my taxes, and today I decided to take a break on that by instead updating the TKC website. I was hoping that task would be a lot quicker, but it turned out to be just as tedious. While I'm far from finished the site is already looking better with updated graphics, and commission info.
... 2025-01-02 02:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostWe have a little bit of downtime as we wait for Zion's DTD to arrive so we are using that time to develop a new sockpaw pattern, only this one is plantigrade!
With any luck I'll have enough time to make a furred example and make a tutorial for you folks.
As promised here are the suit pics of Darius in action! We struggle to get the lighting right, so we ended up taking a lot of photos, so I made several different collages.
2024-12-30 20:24:46 +0000 UTC View PostAll finished the feetpaws! I made some alterations to my sockpaw pattern, and so far I like this new version better. Once I iron out a few kinks I'll release the updated verison to you lovely folks.
That said I was hoping to take pics of Darius's suit in action but the feetpaws ended up taking me all day so I missed my...
Made a new nose for Darius's head, aswell as the eyelids. With the head fully complete I've now started on the sockpaws. I managed to get quite a bit of the sockpaws done, leaving only the soles of the feet which I will do tomorrow. So with any luck I'll be fully finished this suit tomorrow, so expect some pictures of this cu...
2024-12-29 05:07:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, we're getting back to work now that Xmas is over, and we have this month's Monthly Bonus! As previously mentioned this month's bonus is for a collection of 3D printable eyes, there are 12 styles in all (13 if you count the "twin" eyes).
I'm thinking for Jan's monthly...
2024-12-28 16:51:21 +0000 UTC View PostMeant to post this last night before bed but forgot, woops! Anyways the head is essentially done, it just needs eyelids. I may remake the nose out of pla but for now this is what the head looks like. With the head done it will be onto the feetpaws!
This month's patreon bonus will either be a huge set of printable eye s...