Blearg! First time I know of that I've caught ConCrud this badly.

[wolfwings]

I was bad enough that my roommates took my phone and car keys away, to guarantee I wouldn't go into work, and one of them that worked at the same company went in instead after calling my boss for me. So... yeah, +1 Delerius for a'while there, still feeling blearg now though. Didn't feel bad at all until I got home from work yesterday, suddenly BLAM, I'm toast.

Upside - got my taxes done. Well, federal is punted off. I'm doing the state by hand since it's a pitance and I refuse to pay $30 just to get a $80-100 return faster, compared to my $1300+300 federal return + stimulus check.

All of which is going for a down-payment on a fursuit, hopefully a quadruped by BeastCub. If not, I'm not sure who I'll go with. Now... to get a duct tape dummy assembled. And once I have my tax-return in hand I should have another $1.5k in the bank, so I'll have the entire cost of the fursuit saved at that point in spades I think. Complicated part, need to find out if it's possible or if BeastCub would even be willing to attempt a cross-purpose bodysuit and build both a quadrupedal and bipedal set of arms/heads. Or even if she'd rather just build the forearm braces and let someone else build the actual suit for that matter, especially since I saw quite a few very awesome avian fursuits at FC this year so I'm not sure who I'd want to go work now.

So... who among my wide and varied friends list would be willing to tackle a fursuit/quadsuit combo based on BeastCub's braces, some time before next FC? I'm budgetting $3k for this, is that about right? If nobody, I'll poke BeastCub directly once I have cash in hand/bank.

Now to wait for wolf_nymph to get back to me about doing the concept art, since the only thing I'm dead-set on is having her do that part because of how wonderfully she's able to blend avian & canine forms nicely, especially for the head, and she seemed jazzed about the idea when I spoke with her briefly at FC. So the earliest I could get this actually done is all the way in like... June/July anyways, if I recall the schedule she mentioned.

Comments

[lironess.livejournal.com]

I like beastcubs work a lot.

I LOVE this womans quads.

http://www.sparkcostumes.com/

Yeah, Sparks is decent.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately Sparks looks like she might be hitting the point rosequoll did a couple years ago with utter burn-out, as admitted by herself. Compare that with Beastcub and her ability to crank out a suit of comperable quality in much less time than Sparks can, for about the same price. To be honest, Beastcub's earning probably twice an hour what Sparks is when building a fursuit, without skimping on quality, just because she finishes the work so much faster.

And so far I kinda look at BeastCub as the Soki TwoPaws of quadsuit construction, vis-a-vis design improvements and what-not. Especially since I'm not looking to get ultra-complicated painted-on markings or anything that is the one thing Sparks is somewhat more experienced and I think just a hair better at, removes some of the need for going through Sparks.

I will admit I prefer Sparks' quad-hindlegs for solving the 'looks too long/like a maned wolf' problem most quadsuits have, though from what I've heard they're more tiring than Beastcub's system. I'm tempted to try something like Gryphern's hindleg-stilts if I can get the 'switchable' body done, so I can avoid padding as much as possible and because I've got a few years experience toe-walking for 30-60 minutes without stilts for reinforcement anyways.

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Wow. She is WAY too talented with her work. VERY nice. :-)