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FURSUITS
A fursuit is an animal costume, it can be either a partial one (head, paws, tail) or a full-body suit. Fursuits are another hobby of mine, I enjoy both creating them and performing in them.
Though I am not a general fursuit fan and fond of every suit. Actually, there are only quite few that I really like - well fitting, cute looking, properly formed fursuits (especially the face and the eyes are very important). Generally, I love exotic character designs (e.g. hybrids).
Remember:
Not everyone wearing a costume is automatically a Furry!
Not every Furry is a fursuiter or wants to be one.
Only about 10% of the Furry Fandom are fursuiters. ;)
Photo of Tani taken by Mike "Thalian" Goehre, 2007
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I have always been interested in creative work - and believe me, crafting a good looking life size costume is a pretty good challenge. ;)
What's more, I always loved performing (I used to attend a theatre group at school). I like entertaining people, and I enjoy "being somebody else" in that suit.
And of course, this is probably the closest way for me to really "be" and look like my character. That's also the reason why I probably could only wear a fursuit character that I identify with.
Adult people wearing costumes may sometimes sound strange to people, but for most fursuiters the main reason is simply - fun. The joy of creating, performing, making children laugh, entertaining people, taking nice photos with their costumes at nice locations, dancing, etc.
Photo of Daiquiri, taken by BigBlueFox, 2009 |
So far, I have made 4 fursuits myself and commissioned 1 fursuit (from BNCreation). I finished my very first one at the end of 2002, the newest one in 2008 (every 2 years). Practice is the key - when I look back, my first one was really, really bad (so sorry there are no photos of that one here). ;)
I am sorry, I do not take fursuit commissions!
It's only a private hobby for me, which requires a lot of time (which I currently do not have since I have a full time job). And I still don't have enough practise to make a professional suit for other people. All I can do is trying to give you as many info as possible:
For more information, photos, tips how to make a fursuit, links to professional fursuit builders and my tutorials - please visit my Fursuit Making-Of Website!
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Tani - The Schnolf (Commission)
(2010)
In 2010 I commissioned a fursuit of my character Tani / the Schnolf (snow leopard / wolf hybrid) from the fursuit builder BNCreation (this fursuit was not made by me!).
The fursuit has digitigraded legs.
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Daiquiri - Transilvanian Wild Dog
(2008)
My 4th fursuit, the Transilvanian Wild Dog "Daiquiri" (she's a vampire). With the help of Nightfox, we finished her in November 2008.
"Making of" website:
http://fursuit.tanidareal.com. |
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Savoy - Silverfox-Wolf hybrid
(2006)
My 3rd fursuit, of my character "Savoy", finished in May 2006 and which was so far the most complicated one.
"Making of" website:
http://fursuit.tanidareal.com. |
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Tani fursuit II - Snow Leopard
(2004)
In August 2004 I finished my 2nd fursuit - it's TaniDaReal II, the snow leopardess.
"Making of" website:
http://fursuit.tanidareal.com. |
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