• beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    17·
    7 hours ago

    It just occurred to me that there has to be at least a few artisan fursuit tailors whose names are known throughout the furry community for quality. It’s kind of wild to consider an entire little cottage industry of fursuit makers and suppliers most people have never and will never hear about or come into contract with.

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Addendum: click the “makers” section to get a list of popular makers:

      https://www.furtrack.com/tags

      You can click on a name and scroll to the bottom to get photos tagged with their suits

      you’ll probably quickly notice that the suit by bigger makers often have a distinct style

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      7 hours ago

      More than a few.

      Some are basically brand names worn like, well, designer suits (heh). Costing at least 4 figures, maybe 5 depending on the maker and design

      With waiting lists of 1+ years, if you even manage to get a slot

      Once you get an eye for it, you can even recognize some makers style the same way you can recognize drawn art styles

      • beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        6 hours ago

        That makes complete sense, even the pricing. I’ve made a few stage puppets and understand how fussy the materials can be and how time intensive it is to even make like a 3ft tall monster, let alone a full sized, tailored body suit. I’d charge $500+ for a normal sized puppet just for time and materials, you couldn’t get away with something person sized for under a grand.

        I’m sure there are probably other larger scale manufacturers in the space as well. Like those head and arms fur suits are kind of one-sized so they’d be easy-ish to mass produce. Or do furries need them to be bespoke for colors and whatnot?

        • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
          3·
          6 hours ago

          Even partials (head, arms, legs, tail, not full body coverage) are almost all bespoke. Most people want it in their design/colors after all

          There are makers who sell premade complete suits and single items like paws or tails, of course. But that mostly aims towards people who want to walk around a con with a tail without having to put on a suit

          In the last couple years there’s more and more mass manufactured stuff coming from China, but that’s a whole can of worms (ranging from passable quality, to stolen designs to outright scams)