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It's finished! Kinda!
It's going to be continued later on due to recent events. It will be completely finished/refined for October.



Hi! For those who don't know, my name is Tiny! I'm a digital artist.
But today I tried something a little different!

I'm attempting to make my very first full on detailed cosplay, and it will be of Springtrap!
I have no idea how to make pursuits. Nor have I made one before, so most of this is trial and error!
Below you will see my adventures in trying to make my dream of becoming a monstrous dead person in a withering rabbit suit. Spoopy.

I'll also be posting some of my own questions and goals at the end of this post, so previous fursuit/cosplay makers, please lend me a hand!

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Part I
Head Frame

Alright! So let's get started! Eek!


First of all, I measured my head, and then cut out two pieces of plastic mesh of the same size, and then another two pieces which is able to wrap around my head. I glue the pieces of the same length together, before combining them to make a circle.




After, it didn't quite... Come out as round as I'd like?



But hey, this is the first time I'm doing this. So I decided to keep on anyway and hope for the best.
At this time, I also started to make another head just in case this one did get a little. Ah.


That's the start of the other behind the one I'm working on RN.





Again. The second circle is coming out weirdly, so I took it apart and instead didn't glue the insides of the layers. Instead, I just did one layer at a time, then combined two layers. It's more circular now, but after adding the top layers for the top of the head, it doesn't fit me anymore. ;u;

Anyway, now that the head has the top lines of mesh, time to add the sides in which the jaw will attach to.





Ended up doing the sides too long, but I do adjust them throughout working.

Next is making the jaw! I didn't have any old coat hangers to use as a guide, but instead, I used the gold pins to make a frame for it instead.







I also decided to add the pins inside of the jaw to have something for the hooks to attach to!


... But this didn't work so well. I'll explain at the end!

More pins to attach the jaw with;




At this point I forgot to take as many photos as I was busy trying to get the jaw adjusted enough so it would touch my chin and be able to pivot.




The pins I used to make the hooks attach to weren't stable enough, and the hooks kept sliding off. So I ditched them and hope to find a replacement tomorrow.

As for the result of the moment, there are a lot of things I'm unhappy with. The jaw looks out of line compared to the top of the head, and the jaw space to rest my chin slips off when i try to pivot it. No idea how to fix these things.

Things to do: jaw looks out of place. Fix it.
Find something else to attach hooks onto

Tomorrow I might actually end up remaking the thing, using actual measurements this time and make sure everything is super duper precise. But it's been a great learning curve today!

If anyone has any tips or tricks or advice, please post! I'd love to hear them.

Part I.V



Okay! I managed to fix a lot of things today while waiting for my foam. which still haven't arrived yet. (And I paid for next day delivery. Why I oughta---)

Anywho. After redoing the elastic about five times, I ended up cutting the piece in half and somehow, that made the jaw not move strangely, but in fact a lot more smoothly. Hooks are a pain in the butt still as sometimes they do come off, but hey, they're not supposed to stick. At least, not yet I think. I'll debate on what to do with those after I've done my foaming (and furring?)

It honestly doesn't look as impressive as the ones I've seen on youtube in terms of the moving jaw, but it still works. Not as smoothly as I'd like, but it still works. I'm very proud of myself, given I haven't made anything like this before!

I did try to put in some foam padding inside the structure, but that ended up with it being a pain to put on and not really fitting. But I did leave some on the jaw for more comfort when making it move.

Part II
This isn't really working?



I got super excited when my foam came through today! One day late, but even so. I got stuck right in within minutes of opening up the package and pulling out my much needed crafting material!

Getting the first layer of foam to wrap around the head frame was super, duper hard.







But I managed to do it!


In hindsight, I should of just kept it as one layer and carefully construct the rest of the foam, but the tutorial I was following used two sheets of foam. Which... isn't quite what I needed to get the true shape of Springtrap.








(I had also stuck some foam where the points didn't cover because of my OCD. yay.)
But this is where things start going down hill, but I carried on regardless.



Sketching the head was a disaster. I tried several times to mark the exact centre, yet I still managed to muck it up somehow? Plus, that is a horrible, horrible sketch. From this point I can just see how big the head is, and how anatomically incorrect it is. Ugh.


First time I carved the eyes out, it was way too small.


That's better? If not, a little too toon-y for this character. Forehead is still far too large.


At least it looks sorta creepy once it has eyes in. (Not permanent.)

I even braved trying to make the snout today;


But it looks incredibly out of model.

So today? Wasn't all that good. Plus, along the way I have found a bunch of technical difficulties, so much so I might have to restart the whole thing again.

1. Head top is too large. Shouldn't of used two layers of foam.
2. It's a bit misshapen. Sure Springtrap is too, but this isn't correct.
3. Jaw doesn't pivot when attached with the foam on the frame anymore.
4. Jaw also disables me from putting on the head.

Luckily I do have enough foam to start again, but perhaps not enough for when I start making the suit parts. *Shrug.*

For now, I'm going to look into a far easier way to make the mouth pivot. The method I used was a little uncomfy, as well as hard to make. Plus it doesn't even work when theres foam on the frame. But as always, if someone is reading this, any help is appreciated.

I'll continue working on this on Wednesday. Hopefully I'll have a clear head and a new plan that time round!

I'm also gonna keep this here for my own future reference.

Part III
Completely Remade and Better than Ever.

So. It's been a little while. When I said Wednesday, I didn't know I meant a weeks time. Anywho! Now that I've got the energy and time, I'm here to post an update about Springtrap;

I completely scrapped the old head and made a new one!

The old head was... honestly, quite terrible. Even though it was my first attempt and I shouldn't be so hard on myself, the method I used was very picky and hard to get right on the first go, so instead I adopted a far easier method to make my head. The Balaclava method.

I heavily followed this tutorial while making the second attempt too! And what can I say, the results ended up being far far FAR better than my first attempt.

So. I... Haven't actually taken many WIP shots of this one. Mostly because I was more focused on building the head this time round instead of documenting my every action. but! The tutorial I linked was pretty much what I did.








No idea how I'm going to add the teeth yet. But I bought the fabric and hope to be adding it soon!

Part IIII
Fabric Hell





This is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

No sewing either. Don't have the ability or things to do so. So I'm being very very careful with making this head.

I'm wondering how on earth I'm going to add black fabric in the mouth to cover up my mouth. It also pivots so I need to keep that in mind.

Part IIII.I
More fabric hell.




Mistakes? You mean details? Yeah. Details. *Sweats.*
But seriously I'm glad I can make mistakes on this. Spring trap is generally a messed up character !








I wonder if the ears look small on him now. I'm going to leave the pins on for one more day, to see if things look absolutely correct, then...
Gluing begins.
I'm gonna wake up so early tomorrow to go shopping for more supplies, then it begins.

Part IIII.II
Deeper Into Fabric Hell



Made my weapons. Time to do some cut out some withering before gluing it down, and then time for paint!

Almost got my all the pins back.

The seams are bothering me. Gonna need a way to make it look natural.

It is time to tint/paint/spray/whatever you wanna call it.

Made some nice little bottles of homemade spray using acrylic paint. Mixed them up to have the perfect colours.


(some of them weren't right. I mixed up new ones along the way.)






Debating if it looks too dark. Paint is still wet, so I'll find out tomorrow if it's too dark or not!



Also had a go at making the squeaky nose! Nose needs to be darker though.

Part IIII.III
Fabric Hell continues. I smell something burning as I write this.

It's probably okay.

Anyway.





Ears now have fabric. On Monday, I'll stick it down and tint it. Hopefully my black fabric will arrive so I can add more detail and put it inside the mouth, and then add teeth!

The head is so close to being finished.