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[–] knightly@pawb.social 149 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (28 children)

More or less, yeah.

Fabrics and polyurethane foam used to be the only options for fursuits, but this started shifting over the last 10 years or so. Some enterprising furries started molding components like teeth, claws, and noses from soft rubber materials, which experienced a brief renaissance before hard plastic 3d-printed parts started supplanting the more labor-intensive custom molded pieces.

At the time when this was posted, hard plastic parts had become common for new fursuits, but now that 3d printers can use TPU and other flexible materials, they've become the new standard. Many fursuit makers actually use this technique to print the whole frame of the fursuit head, making them more durable while also improving airflow over the old-style carved polyurethane foam head bases;

A pic of an old-style carved polyurethane foam head base.

A pic of a new-style 3d printed TPU head base.

[–] 2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)

What the other two people said

[–] knightly@pawb.social 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Lol, I don't have one, but I post on Lemmy a lot, so there's that. =3

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago

Dang, no comments view?

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