Kitty hands get their own post cause they look pretty cute.
 

Pads are painted fabric, glued onto white felt, which gave me something to stitch to the white fur.
Now when I make hands, I make a little template for size I want the overall hand to be, then work my way in for the foam. As just a foam hand it looked tiny, but now covered in fur it's the perfect size in relation to the head. I'm pleased with how they turned out. pain in the arse working so small, it's time consuming but worth it in the end, I guess.
I like how paw-like they look, but I can adjust it to look more like a hand.
 

Mocked up to check overall look. This is gonna be his height with legs slightly bent.
Arms aren't gonna be attached to the body, they're just gonna sit loose in the fur so it moves easier. Might trim down the shoulder part of the arm.
Need to repaint the nose. Needs to be pinker. The whisker are probly gonna be redundant but I wanted to do them. When I think 'cat', I think triangular ears, triangular nose, and whiskers, first.
The scar for the missing eye probly isn't terribly noticable there. I trapped the fur in the seam for it. Something I learned not to do on my first puppet.



Both feet and hands have wire armatures inside for posability. I think they'll look more kitty-like covered in fur.
Gonna be hard to do the little pinks pads for the palms and fingertips, being so small, but gonna it a shot.
I have decided to make the legs removable. Gonna use some press studs. Reading up on whether to do it or not and only read recommendations to make them detachable. Nobody really argued to make them permanant.. The legs are gonna be Digitigrade.

I'm out of foam, so the legs and tail are on hold for now. I try to put off the whole fur sewing thing as much as possible cause it's my least favourite part.

It's all just mocked up to check general placement. The inside of the ear is gonna be white fur. Still a long way off.
Been making quick little paper towel template-patterned pieces and making sure the piece is the right way with the direction of the fur before cutting it out. Didn't have to worry about fur direction with the long red stuff.

I was worried he'd look like a fox. Luckily triangular ears and nose are universally "kitty".



The head was a tight little foam sculpt I literally had lying around. The jaw was long gone, so I added one, padded out jowels and sculpted the front to be a little more cat-like.
The nose was a black teddy bear eye I carved up with a hot blade combining my love of fire, knives and sculpting. The teeth were gonna be claws for a monster plushie I was gonna make, and the eye is one of the knobby bits on the bottom of a plastic bottle I loosened up with heat and just kinda shaped into a cat eye. At one point I considered taxidermy eyes but meh, hand made looks more plushie.

I think I'll make legs for this one cause he's gonna be small and would look better sitting on things instead of behind. I'm gonna try to make a tail for him but if I can't make it sit up and curl like I want cause of the weight of it, I'll make him tail-less.

( Bigger behind the cut.. )
 

That's all really.

 

In other news, I finally saw 'Monsters Versus Aliens' and although small in scope [there's like what, 6 scenes in the whole thing] and it's way too short, there were some decent jokes, fun romp, great music, punchy and moves along nicely. A decent Dreamworks movie? Well suck me dry and call me dusty.
Luckily there weren't many quiet, slow paced scenes, which are way too animated. It's like every characters in a dreamworks movie has parkinsons. But anyway, it's good enough to distract me from how much I dislike CG movies. Wish I had seen it in 3D though.

Seriously, is Han Solo the only character who didn't get some stupid interwoven backstory in the new movies?
I feel bad for Boba Fett, ruined with such a stupid backstory, in the new movies. He went from 'Quiet, Cool, Badass character' to 'a New Zealander'. Then again R2-D2 could fly. Was it ever explained in any of them why he later couldn't?

( More of this kinda thing..... )

Patiently waiting for death.
 

I don't know where I saw this girl.

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Well, after much slow progress, he's finally completed. Very minor things to do here and there, but he's essentially finished.
I still have enough fake fur to make another one. It's crappy fur though. I need to invest in the more expensive furs for my next endeavor.



( More pics, of course. )

All glued in and pretty much good to go for the fur.