Creature Costuming [Part 6]: Finishing, Performance, Safety, and Care

Ever wanted to start making monster or animal cosplays? Tom and Riley lead a panel discussion about Creature Costuming for beginners.

Part 6 of 6: Finishing Touches, Performance/Safety, and Traveling/Care
A look at some additional details to incorporate into your costume, a guide for performing in suit, addressing safety concerns, how to properly care for and wash costumes, and traveling and storing them properly.


September 11, 2011 at NDK 15 in Denver, CO
Filmed by ReyTiger (YT ReyRunTiger)

deviantART usernames: Tom- sgtknifeman, Riley- CanineHybrid



---Helpful Links---
The fursuit community on LiveJournal: http://fursuit.livejournal.com
Tons of resources and tutorials, ask questions, share projects, get inspired

Riley's Pokémon costumes, thousands of step by step photos, to help you analyze the building process: http://www.flickr.com/caninehybrid

Work of the artists featured in the video:
Monoyasha- Dream Vision Creations http://www.monoyasha.com

Skaros (Blue Dragon)- Animatronics http://www.youtube.com/blueskaros444
Umbreon (Built by Tom)- http://leap207.deviantart.com
Groudon (Built by Riley)- http://rektheartist.deviantart.com

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[Brownwaterz]

i have a question do you glue the fur to the foam or sew it?

[CanineHybrid]

@Brownwaterz I realize I forgot to cover that in the panel, oops |D

In many places on the costume, there is not a need for attaching fabric permanently to the foam. This allows me the option of slipping off the fabric cover if needed to wash or replace without damaging the foam. But in places it needs to be attached, hotglue or spray adhesive. Careful with shorter pile fabrics though: on Groudon, the fabric was able to capture the contour of every bump of hotglue so I couldn't use it everywhere

[leslie13536]

thank you guys for this! It's so informative and had some great advice!

[DoomMoofy]

So glad that someone finally did something like this. I know it's going to help me out so much, thank youuuu! <3

[PlasticCamera]

makes you want to sterilize the entire human race

[BestTimes8812]

Wow! All these videos were very helpful. :D

I'm thinking about making a Mach Gaogamon (from Digimon) cosplay and the videos are going to be really helpful ^^

I think costumes are just amazing!

[umbreonofshadows]

These videos were really informative but I am sad to making cosplay costumes might be a little over my head. ._.

[purplepurplepurple13]

can i have a handout?

[tfJord]

Look at all the fucking freaks in this video. Wastes of air.

[legomaniac1128]

As a non furry, I found this informative, and extremely well done. And rather humorous! XD Well done again!

[DarkReshiram1]

Hey you know how you said you weren't gonna make a quadsuit for a while? Well, I was just thinking, maybe I could help you with blueprints and stuff...after all, I'm pretty much done. All I need to do is attach the tails on. Yay!

[BevinKB]

A little tip I found from a Furry panel, teach the performers and handlers sign language. So if something goes wrong, your performer can immediately inform his/her handler if they need help.

[majorsmask]

I have a question about the pannel itself...you mentioned a few times about a leaflet or something like that...do you by any chance have a link to an online version of this leaflet...maybe in a PDF file or something