A few months ago, I modeled a giraffe head and blender, intent on making it into a neck-vision fursuit. I fell in love with the design, and decided to go the hard (but much more comfortable) route of translating the print into an EVA head. 

Man, achieving that was frustrating, to be completely honest. I had to find out a way to print out a smaller version exactly a third of the size I was wanting it to be, and it took me three attempts to find a free blender head that was size-accurate. Nevertheless, I eventually managed to do it, and then the next day I got some tape and patterned half of the tiny head. 

After that, I used a (very dull) box cutter to cut out the patterning, stuck at all to a piece of paper, and then sent the photo to my computer to trace then print. Frankly, I don't recall how I ended up sizing it up to what I was wanting it to be in the end, I just sent that part to my dad to do. once that was finally done, I cut out all of the pieces of paper, then traced them out on EVA foam

Now came the fun part, actually gluing everything together! I got some rubber cement and attached all of the foam pieces as they appeared in the many pictures I'd previously taken, which was going fine, until I reached the ears and the ossicones. I waited about a week to think it over, because it was just not piecing together in my mind (nor in my hands), and I eventually decided to scrap the idea of the animal being a giraffe altogether. I thought that the base looked a lot like a donkey, with how big the ears were, and I figured that if I repositioned them, then I would be able to achieve that likeness easily. after some molding with the heat gun, a some super lightweight foam clay, and a bit of sanding; I finally finished the base. 

I still have the furring to do, and will definitely still go the neck-vision route, but I'm so happy with how this guy is turning out! I can't believe that I've been able to get this far into my project, doing a method I'd never tried before. 

Updates on the "Giraffe" Head!