@CavramCreations
Wanted to get back to you on this, having finally printed my toon-eye eye-sockets and gotten comfortable with the eyes...
I made paper ovals that were bigger than the socket, used a stencil I had 3D printed (after using it as a mock-up in Blender) to make the irises, cut out the pupils, then taped them into various positions in the back of the eye until I came up with a configuration that I liked. You want to cut out the pupils for this so you can try it on and see what things look like.
What I came up with, which I think is going to be the norm, is that the irises are about as large as I can get away with making them, the pupils are a little more than half their diameter, and they are somewhere between the center and the inner edge of the eye space.
Hope that helps someone...
#Fursuit #FursuitMaker #FursuitMaking #FursuitMakers #FursuitEyes #FursuitHead #3DPrintedFursuitHead
Searching for "ugly #fursuit head" on Google images to make myself feel better about all the flaws I keep noticing in my own #3DPrintedFursuitHead.
The problem is, half of these are actually well done #fursuits with "ugly" themes...
On the eve of #FursuitFriday, could y'all #furries reply with pictures of some of your #UglyFursuits, so we can maybe have an #UglyFursuit thread for new #FursuitMaker s to look at?
It'd make us feel better!
New eye sockets for my #3DPrintedFursuitHead just dropped, couldn't wait for #FursuitFriday to post.
Here's how to cut vent holes in #Blender when #3DPrinting something like a #3DPrintedFursuitHead / #3DPrintedMask...
This uses the "Boolean" modifier, set on "Difference", which cuts areas out of an object based on where it intersects with a given object. If you can't figure this out, ask on the Blender Discord, and one of us will help: the documentation you find on this may be inaccurate.
To cut a hole, make a cone (or pointy cyllinder) with a base that measures larger than the width of the large joint of your middle finger. Place these with the base just inside the inside of the mesh where you want holes, and pull the point out so it's still wide enough to get a finger through where it exits. This will give you an efficient hole shape: bigger on the inside.
Try to fit them all in one object, unless they start overlapping, in which case, make a second one and do the modifier again with that one.
When the modifier is going and the cones are hidden, you should have holes.
For #FursuitFriday, I want to take a moment to document and reflect upon the construction of my #3DPrinted #FursuitHead / #FursuitMask.
This will be a long thread.
A first time #FursuitMaker would benefit strongly from reading these basic techniques, which allowed me to make this head with pretty much no experience making heads. Professional #FursuitMakers would also benefit, because there are experimental features here that would be good to be able to offer, in a #Fursuit #Comission, but especially in a head made for yourself. (The removable eyes alone mean you could do a lot of experimentation without having to sacrifice an entire head.)
I will try to document these concepts accordingly, as someone who has done #Costume construction before, but never anything quite this elaborate, or #Furry.
So, here is a thread on how I made my #3DPrintedFursuitHead. Remember to bookmark it if you want to make one too!
Worked on the #fursuit head today for #FursuitFriday. Other than the ears, and a more permanent nose, most of what I did was structure and glue-down, along with #3DModeling work in #Blender on the currently unprinted eye sockets, but I wanted to post something anyway.
I'd like to finish the ears and straps this weekend, so I can make a video, and maybe talk about #3DPrintedMask / #3DPrintedFursuitHead stuff.