SoyaSuuki
Krautdragon [ Art ]Costume crafting is my most rewarding hobby. (But the materials are giving me ecological nightmares.)
Oblomov@oblomov Thank you!
DearFox@krautdragon good tail
@DearFox thanks :3
Chronocide@krautdragon How are you articulating the tail? (hidden) wires? Your hip movement? Tiny motors?
@chronocide it's just translation from hip movement!
@chronocide I learned how to make it from this tutorial: https://web.archive.org/web/20170114071724/https://rarsuit.livejournal.com/44876.html
Dragon Tail Tutorial
One of the most common questions I get while performing as Scabrous the dragon is, “How did you get the tail to move?” A lot of folks expect servos and technical stuff, but it’s all just gravity. This is still incomplete, but I wanted to get the ball rolling. There are parts shown of two…
@krautdragon Oh huh, I remember those toy snakes, never thought it would translate to large scale, cool!
Cheetah Fluff@krautdragon That's super cool looking, wow :O
@CheetahFluff Thanks! I just hope it'll stay cool once it got it's skin. I dislike when costume parts come out comically huge, which I see a lot of makers do, but it happens easily by accident. 
@krautdragon For real, that's the biggest thing I dislike about fursuits and cosplays. If it's chunky it doesn't look plausible, it looks uncanny. Good luck with the next steps, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!
ceb@krautdragon My goodness that's so very cool!
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@krautdragon the articulation is amazing, but i'd be scared to wear that at a con anywhere near dealers' tables…
@fishidwardrobe Yeeee at Eurofurence for example wearing this in the seller's hall is forbidden for good reason. Not sure how anime cons handle it. I was never this suited up at one.
@fishidwardrobe If they allow me in like this, I'll wreck the place. 
@krautdragon if you're aiming for dragon, that seems likely to be appropriate!
L.A.M.@krautdragon
that looks awesome!
that looks awesome!
@LuckyArtMonster thank you!
Eugene 
Big tail never fail! 
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wingthat's amazing work and very life-like. I know what you mean about the materials and it's a pity, because I feel like that's unnecessary. There's a tremendous body of work on substitutes for polymers that are currently made from petrochemical feedstocks, but it all remains very small-scale and mostly academic because the petrochemical industry does NOT want to interrupt the pipeline they've constructed: straight out of the Earth and flowing into every conceivable consumer product.
#plastics #polymers #petroleum
@mxchara I'm not knowledgeable, I had the assumption it's not that simple but looking at oil and gas industry, wouldn't be surprised if big players sabotaged and slowed it... one way or another civilisation is way behind with it's alternatives. This is what we should have figured out more, not image generators and chatbots. 
You said it! Yes there's challenges; I think that going over to natural and renewable feedstocks in a sensible way would mean abandoning a lot of the industrial expectations that have been built up over the centuries since "The Industrial Revolution". People would have to expect a bit more variability in physical properties, a bit less reliability in supply-chained that (in my opinion) would be compensated by having a greater range of options and sources. And I totally agree: this is what technological development should be all about, not…LLMs.
#technology #manufacturing
Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲@krautdragon TAAAAAAAIIILLL 
I love it!!
I love it!!