"Who doesn't love the way blood smells, or tastes, or feels against you skin? You've gotta bleed every now and then just to know your alive, to know you exist..."
I were glasses and more then likely I will be geting a fursuit. can you were glasses under the head? Or will I need to tell the maker I were glasses, or what?
Generally fursuit heads do not have the extra room for glasses under them, but I would talk to the suit maker about it. The odds are that if you warn them ahead of time they can build the head to accommodate your spectacles without to much of a problem. I will warn you however, from my own experience, that glasses will fog easily under a fursuit head.
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Glasses can be tough, massively. I've known a few folks who have done it, with no success reported. Typically, you'll have a guide or work in a group. I take it contacts aren't an option....
"Who doesn't love the way blood smells, or tastes, or feels against you skin? You've gotta bleed every now and then just to know your alive, to know you exist..."
I use glasses under mine just fine! You can keep them from fogging by using wax you can get at sporting goods store for that purpose, or you can just put shaving cream on the lenses and polish it off and that works too.(try that on a spot in your bathroom mirror when you shower, you will see what I mean)
Its best to use shell type heads rather than the bac's to give you more room, but they are better for ventilation anyways. I make my heads by forming the head with paper mache', then using white glue to apply cloth strips, then burlap strips, and remove the paper mache' to give you a hollow head. Finally, I put in a hard hat (bump hat actually) which is glued in with barge cement and closed cell foam spacers. Spacing from the front is much less than the back to give a wider vision range, but to allow for the glasses. I am about to make a new raccoon head and can photo-document the whole thing if you like. People call this method the "John Doe" method cause you start with a generic looking head shape. It takes a while to do it but its super easy.
Materials list:
12" balloons
black cotton cloth
gunny sack material
newspaper strips/balls
white glue (lots)
Some sort of stick that stands up to hold it while you work on it.
bump cap (hard hat)
closed cell foam or other spacing material
cloth tape measure
and whatever you use to fur it, eyes, fangs, whatever
Whoops, left out the wire supports... zip tie the joints, then hot melt them together and to the shell on the inside. You will need those if you don't use fiberglass resin to solidify the glued up shell.
Some people make a plaster shell for a prototype, then use it as a pattern to make a wire frame. I think thats because you can make the prototype so cheap from paper and flour paste before you spend any money. Having lots of room inside is critical if you are claustrophobic(like me) or wear glasses(like me). For wire, I use very light solid core wire to make a pattern for each wire, then copy it in strong wire using pliers... I think it's 3/16 for the final but don't quote me on that.
I have seen 2 fiberglass ones in recent weeks that are pretty lightweight, maybe I will try one to see if it works for me?
The shell method works better for the bigger heads, but for a tighter head I prefer a bump cap wire frame to a balaclava just cause its cooler. Just imho.
and to add for the fogging issue I use that rain x anti fogg suff for car windows and it works great all you do is put a little bit on a paper towel and rub it on the lensess and you can find it at any department store in the automotive section
If you are making the fursuit, be sure to take your glasses into account. If you are having it made, make sure that the person making it knows that you will be wearing glasses with it so they can add the extra room. I've got a mask that was made for me, and the maker forgot to put that extra room in, so we are currently working on getting it adjusted, which may require us to ship it back and forth a few times to get it right. So definitely make sure that the person making it takes it into account. Will save a lot of time and effort.
"Who doesn't love the way blood smells, or tastes, or feels against you skin? You've gotta bleed every now and then just to know your alive, to know you exist..."
If Remember right there was a suiter who was waring glasses designed for use with a gasmask. I've found several sites that sell such items. Here's a link to a set I've been looking at http://www.eyeglass.com/gasmaskframes.html
If you plan on getting new glasses in the future, I suggest keeping your old pair. I have to wear glasses or I'll be blind. So my solution to the same problem you have is to take an older pair of glasses, pop the lens out, position the lenses on tape....and then to place them in the head and put the head on. That worked...but, I am about to go a bit further, put in velcro in the head, and then put the lenses in better kind of clear tape.
That way I can see...but I am comfortable at the same. If the glasses lenses get something on them I can take them, wipe them clean, and then re-put them in there. I hope that helps!
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Generally fursuit heads do not have the extra room for glasses under them, but I would talk to the suit maker about it. The odds are that if you warn them ahead of time they can build the head to accommodate your spectacles without to much of a problem. I will warn you however, from my own experience, that glasses will fog easily under a fursuit head.
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Dear lord, you want me to do what with that hairdryer!?
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Glasses can be tough, massively. I've known a few folks who have done it, with no success reported. Typically, you'll have a guide or work in a group. I take it contacts aren't an option....
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I have gone to the eye place about contacts before, I can have them in my right eye, but not left....pointless right?
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I use glasses under mine just fine! You can keep them from fogging by using wax you can get at sporting goods store for that purpose, or you can just put shaving cream on the lenses and polish it off and that works too.(try that on a spot in your bathroom mirror when you shower, you will see what I mean)
Its best to use shell type heads rather than the bac's to give you more room, but they are better for ventilation anyways. I make my heads by forming the head with paper mache', then using white glue to apply cloth strips, then burlap strips, and remove the paper mache' to give you a hollow head. Finally, I put in a hard hat (bump hat actually) which is glued in with barge cement and closed cell foam spacers. Spacing from the front is much less than the back to give a wider vision range, but to allow for the glasses. I am about to make a new raccoon head and can photo-document the whole thing if you like. People call this method the "John Doe" method cause you start with a generic looking head shape. It takes a while to do it but its super easy.
Materials list:
12" balloons
black cotton cloth
gunny sack material
newspaper strips/balls
white glue (lots)
Some sort of stick that stands up to hold it while you work on it.
bump cap (hard hat)
closed cell foam or other spacing material
cloth tape measure
and whatever you use to fur it, eyes, fangs, whatever
Jeefers
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Whoops, left out the wire supports... zip tie the joints, then hot melt them together and to the shell on the inside. You will need those if you don't use fiberglass resin to solidify the glued up shell.
Some people make a plaster shell for a prototype, then use it as a pattern to make a wire frame. I think thats because you can make the prototype so cheap from paper and flour paste before you spend any money. Having lots of room inside is critical if you are claustrophobic(like me) or wear glasses(like me). For wire, I use very light solid core wire to make a pattern for each wire, then copy it in strong wire using pliers... I think it's 3/16 for the final but don't quote me on that.
I have seen 2 fiberglass ones in recent weeks that are pretty lightweight, maybe I will try one to see if it works for me?
The shell method works better for the bigger heads, but for a tighter head I prefer a bump cap wire frame to a balaclava just cause its cooler. Just imho.
Jeef
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permalinkand to add for the fogging issue I use that rain x anti fogg suff for car windows and it works great all you do is put a little bit on a paper towel and rub it on the lensess and you can find it at any department store in the automotive section
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If you are making the fursuit, be sure to take your glasses into account. If you are having it made, make sure that the person making it knows that you will be wearing glasses with it so they can add the extra room. I've got a mask that was made for me, and the maker forgot to put that extra room in, so we are currently working on getting it adjusted, which may require us to ship it back and forth a few times to get it right. So definitely make sure that the person making it takes it into account. Will save a lot of time and effort.
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sweet, I will do so!
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permalinkIf Remember right there was a suiter who was waring glasses designed for use with a gasmask. I've found several sites that sell such items. Here's a link to a set I've been looking at http://www.eyeglass.com/gasmaskframes.html
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If you plan on getting new glasses in the future, I suggest keeping your old pair. I have to wear glasses or I'll be blind. So my solution to the same problem you have is to take an older pair of glasses, pop the lens out, position the lenses on tape....and then to place them in the head and put the head on. That worked...but, I am about to go a bit further, put in velcro in the head, and then put the lenses in better kind of clear tape.
That way I can see...but I am comfortable at the same. If the glasses lenses get something on them I can take them, wipe them clean, and then re-put them in there. I hope that helps!
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permalinkNow that's smart!
Next step: prescription fursuit eyes
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