Kigurumi mask eyes closed~

I have painted and inserted the eye lids behind the eye lashes. I tested their movement and it moved as I wish they did. I have yet fastened the eyelids behind the eyes on the inside of the mask as yet, so there is more shadow over the eye lids in the animated GIF file below.

Although it is already moving well with the current design I used, I am still not 100% comfortable that the eye lashes design has been perfected yet. I need to think of a better design for the joints behind the eye lashes so that it will move even more smoother than it does now.

Moving eye lashes are attached~

The cover girl today is Yu in a silver metallic maid lycra outfit as promised. The costume consist of a metallic silver bodysuit with skirt and 3 accessories. The accessories are a pair of metallic white gloves, a metallic white apron and metallic silver knee high socks. There's enough metallic matter here to turn Yu into a knightress in shiny armour.

The purpose of this update is to show some of the progress of the blinking eye mechanism which I'm building. There is a breakthrough today on the eye lashes. If you have been following my posts, the eye lashes uses nails as joints. This posed a problem because it is quite "thick". This made the eye lashes very bulky.

I wouldn't have knew it would be not suitable before I tried making it, so I can't really say I regretted using this method to form the joints. So I knew the joins needs to be super thin. I went back to my initial idea of joining the eyelashes by interlocking the eye lashes to itself, in other words ORIGAMI. It must be the theory of infinite intelligence working here, when you are focused on some issues, solutions which you never would have known sometimes just appear.

Need joint suggestion for last piece of the puzzle, inverting eyelashes

Calling out to all craft and tool users out there. I need some help with suggestions for the joints for bendable eye lashes. For those you just dropped by today, I am making a mask project right now trying to create blinking eyes for masks.

There is a discussion thread going on in the forums which might be interesting to you if you have a brilliant suggestion. Even if you do not have any ideas at the moment, check it out to find the engineering behind how kigurumi masks are made~^_^ The forum thread can be found here:
http://www.kigurumicosplay.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1090&start=0

Right now, I am trying to figure out the last bit of the design for inverting eyelashes. I have drawn a diagram below to illustrate the nature of my design. It involves separating the conventional single piece eyelashes into 3 segments which can swivel and thus invert. To better understand what I mean, see the picture below.

Calling all innovative and creative kigurumi lovers~

Livewearyu kigurumi masks has come a long way since Yu ran the show. Since then she has retired, living her blissful married life with her prince charming and hardly mentioned a word about kigurumi. I thank Yu for sending me a few of her pictures in new never been shown before costumes.But won't expect her to show up anytime soon~^_^

What would she say if she saw the modern CC through to Saya models, what would she think of the evolution of the kigurumi mask learning how to blink~

I call upon visitors to this site, to for once, share some creativity and innovative thoughts on the design of the blinking kigurumi mask. Become a part of a new and fun design of kigurumi masks that will amaze people even more. Please visit the thread here:

http://www.kigurumicosplay.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1090&start=0

Trying to make my kigurumi mask blink~ 70% complete >_^

Not sure if it will look as perfect as the picture on the left, but hell, I'll know when its built.

 
During the long talk with Draconpern regarding several issues including making blinking kigurumi masks. I came to decide on two methods to create a pushing mechanism. (Grown bored of waiting for Tool Prooper for a suggestion hehe~^_^;) And some visitors have guessed what I was making from the hints I posted up some time ago. One method is to use air pressure to create a pushing force to close the eyelids. The other is to build a solenoid and control the movement with buttons.

I decided to start building the air pressure operated method since I have no idea how I can press buttons using my face yet, using the tongue would eventually make all foods taste like nothing to me I guess.

EASIER SAID THAN DONE. I spend quite a number of weeks, on and off, pondering on a design to build the pushing mechanism. One which can be control from within the mask itself. YES, just like the ironman suit~!

The design involved blowing air into pistons which will push the eyelids down.The next problem came when I realise I need the piston to retract as well. Brainstormed for ideas of a spring mechanism for a while. and finally, found a retractable string device which I lessen the spring's strength so my pistons can push it.

Hitagi Senjougahara in pvc bunny suit video on Youtube

There was a Hitagi Senjougahara shoot some time ago, and one of it was her in a pvc bunny suit. I really like the character from Bakemonogatari, I strongly encourage everyone to watch it. The story is very interesting and has depth and Hitagi san, she's so gorgeous.

I added a video oh her in the pvc bunny suit up on my Youtube channel today. Its been a long time since the pictures of this shoot has been posted. They are not in the gallery though I think, its in a blog post in November 2009.

I still remember when I made the suit, I posted pictures and bits of it as well in a number of around Mar09 I think. Yu was the first to cosplay in it and there is a gallery of Yu in this bunny suit in the gallery section. I modeled the bunny suit to resemble Suzumiya Haruhi's concert bunny suit when she sang "God Knows" in the anime.(Click on link to visit)

New high quality kigurumi bodysuit mass order.

A new high quality kigurumi skin coloured bodysuit mass order has been started. The previous stock has ran out and of late, a number of friends and members are asking for the purchase of the bodysuits. Anyone who wishes to join the order must jump on this bandwagon quickly. if you will like to commission a mask in the future or soon, I may not be able to provide a HQ bodysuit if it is out of stock and there isn't a minimum number of orders.

It might be interesting so I'll share with you the situation involved in making a bodysuit, it is entirely a loss when I commission the suits one at a time. I suppose that because the high quality suit fabric has been found at only one manufacturer so far the production process involves a lot of shipping and logistics. The material has to get shipped from supplier to tailor and then to me, which I then ship to the buyer. The price which I'm selling one suit for is clearly insufficient to cover the 3 international shipping involved not to mention any labour. That is why mass order is the way to go, not exactly to give anyone a huge discount (The suits are already at the huge discount to other suit makers) but just to make it possible for everyone who wants a kigurumi skin toned bodysuit to have one~^_^.

A different evening at Misato's home.

A fun and exciting talk of just one of the many evenings that Shinji, Asuka and Misato spends in their apartment. Oh not forgetting their pet emperor penguin Pen Pen. The story was written by Pool Trooper, a forum regular telling of how Asuka came about in the picture previously posted~

I hope you have a good read. If you have a different version you wish to add, just send it to me~^_^ Here is how the story goes:

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"So tell me again why we are doing this Shinji?”  Asuka asked innocently to her fellow EVA pilot and sole room-mate until their quite possibly drunk guardian, Misato, got back from where-ever she was.  Since the beginning of the month, both teenagers have had a lot of free time and not a whole lot to due, what with school being out for the summer as well as nary an angel popping its head out to attack NERV.    He’s never asked to take pictures of me before, let alone go shopping with me till a few weeks ago.  She thought, posing somewhat seductively as a camera flashed from just a few feet away.

A Story, can you make a series of events out of the pictures?

Any creative writers/drawers around, I have a favour to ask from you. I am thinking of putting up an interesting read regarding a few pictures that I have taken recently. In simple terms, is someone interested in joining the pictures into a story?

I'm looking for some creative story writer to write a short story (just for fun) about an eventful day about Asuka. It is best coupled with a single or a couple (or as many as you like) of sketches/drawings connecting the scenes from which how Asuka got from the first picture, to the second picture below~^_^;

The story can be from the point of view of Asuka, a third person or even you yourself witnessing the event. I think it will be fun, and creative at the same time. Try to make the story suitable for reading for all ages. As long as it doesn't have too explicit material, I will post it up for everyone to enjoy (if it you have a more daring version, feel free to send it to me~^_^ It could go in the forum thread~). If there are several stories, I intend to put the other stories in the fanart page or forum page.

Facebook has claimed Wyu and Facebook comment plugins added to website

This banner you see on the left is what you'll see on Facebook when you leave a comment or "like" a post here on this website. I've recently create a Facebook profile for Wyu, lol at long last. And thank you for your add on Facebook.

Having Wyu join Facebook was not my primary intention, I was trying to add Facebook plugins on my website and the only way to do it is to have a Facebook developer account. And so, now I'm on Facebook. Facebook has given me some interesting pictures of kig mask attempts by various friends on there. I only wish they could have shared their pictures and mask making adventures with me. They all look so good and appears to have been fun to make.