Sometimes, you're working on a suit and you realize part of it looks... off. While attaching fur to the jaw of the pig this morning, I realized that something definitely seemed wrong with it, but I wasn't sure what. It just looked weird.
The problem is, testing out various strategies on the physical suit is difficult and sometimes irreversible (like making it smaller-- then I'd have to redo the whole thing if it turned out I needed to make it larger again)... but there is a better way!
This is something I've done many times (especially on foam head bases.) You can take a photo of it and just edit the photo. I use Clip Studio Paint but you can use really any similar software (off the top of my head, FireAlpaca and GIMP are both free options).
All I did here was:
- Lasso tool around the part of the fursuit that looks weird (here, the bottom jaw)
- Paste it onto a different layer and remove it from the original layer. Then, I filled in the empty space by copying some of the fur texture from the neck and then blurred and darkened the edges a bit so it would look a bit more natural so I could picture the end result better.
- Now move the offending part around. Change the position, the size, the angle. (Here, it needed to be angled down a bit more and moved upwards.)
Done! Now I know what to do on the physical version of this in-progress head: remove the bottom jaw, trim it, put it back in at the right angle, and sew the fur in that area together again.
