Clockwork Creature

A snarling monster with big teeth, big claws, and buglike mandibles on its face strikes a threatening pose in front of a stone building

View from below of a snarling monster with big teeth and buglike mandibles on its face, in front of a stone building

View from the side of a snarling monster with big teeth, big claws, and buglike mandibles on its face striking a threatening pose in front of a stone building

It's Primordial, monstering it up in Pittsburgh! Pictures taken by @smogteeth.bsky.social at Anthrocon 2025.

We love you Spotti, you were the best. Rest well. 💚💙

A brown-furred monster head with a mandrill-like snarl, intense yellow eyes, and crab-claw-like facial extensions. 3/4 view.

A brown-furred monster head with a mandrill-like snarl, intense yellow eyes, and crab-claw-like facial extensions. Front view.

Primordial is done! Here's the head. Waiting to post pics of the rest of the suit until its owner is modeling it!

No stilts! Just leg padding to create the digitigrade shape.

Front view of a snarling monster mask with its mouth open. Its teeth and tongue have been covered with blue masking tape to protect them from airbrush overspray.

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A brown-furred monster mask on a cluttered work table. It is very large. Its snarling face with huge bared teeth and hairless cheeks is reminiscent of a mandrill.

I mean look at this guy

I sent you a DM to open a channel

Sure! DM me the deets.

Yep!

The terrible springtime struggle

A monster mask lies face-up on a cluttered table, being actively worked on by Shanzi wielding a pair of scissors. Its huge teeth and retracted lips, framed by brownish fur, give an impression of a snarling mandrill.

Shanzi is getting to the good part of Primordial now- look at that mandrill-esque snarl!

Two sets of creature teeth made of off-white plastic. On the left is the set for a regular-size wolf; on the right is a monster set about 3x as large.

My what big teeth you have: here's Primordial's upper jawset fresh off the print bed. The wee little jawset on the left is our regular sized wolf set.

Anybody have a recommendation for a 3d pen? Seems like it'd be a useful thing to have on hand.

A silly black & white ink drawing of our pets stacked up to form a conical shape. Each is labeled with a christmas tree orb bearing their name. At the top is Zigo, a tabby cat with an unamused expression, wearing a hat with a star on top. He sits atop Oscar, a black cat with a mischievous expression. Oscar stands on Bogey, a dark merle-patterned throwback Pomeranian dog, whose mouth is open as he yells at the universe. Bogey stands on Seven, a terrier mix, who looks up at Bogey's butt with a joyful expression and wags her tail. At Seven's feet is a mass of tiny creatures surrounding an orb labeled "Matt's countless bugs," and off to the right is another orb with a tiny lizard climbing it, labeled "Li'l Skrunkle the tiny gecko." Over the top of whole thing is lettering reading "Happy Holidays from Matt & Shannon Heartwood and our Mob of Wild Animals." Among the bugs, one holds up a little sign: MH 2024.

Happening Hols from Matt & Shannon at Clockwork Creature

DreamVision Creations Creature costume parts and pieces for Do-It-Yourself costume builders.

All I want for christmas is for people to spread the word about Dream Vision Creations, and what they offer the creative community. And not just fursuit makers either! Larpers, cosplayers, theater people, haunters, festival people- check them out!

Only when sailing ;)

Shira is complete!
This is a total refurbishment of a very old head from 2009 (I think), - the fur, horns, and eyes are all new, but the mask base was still in really good shape!

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How had I never heard of these before

Like it makes so much sense

Hot damn

Two people wearing rat masks pose dynamically. They are on a ship and are wearing cheap sailor suits. The sky behind them is clear and blue.

Heyo new persons! We're Shanzi (aka Qarrezel) and Matt, a couple of fursuit makers that specialize in realistic looks. We've been at it for 20 years now and our work has found its way all over the world, onto the big screen, and... into your heart? 👉👈

Pictured: us as the rats in Strawberry Mansion

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

Shira WIP from today. Airbrushing is coming along!

WIPs of Shira from over the last month - a very old head of ours that we are refurbishing.

It's all good! They did a good job and so did you. Glad to see it wasn't an impostor situation.

Hmm. The mask is rad indeed, but we've only just started messing with 3d printing and haven't made a print file of a wolf skull. If you bought the file from someone claiming to be us, they were lying.

Good times in our old basement stairwell. Really wish this contest wasn't based on Facebook but I can still signal boost.

A bagster full of junk. Among the junk is a dingy, rough foam mannequin body with a cloth skin, lying face-down. Drawn on its butt in sharpie are a pair of nipples and the words "Mr. Boyfriend" in a swoopy style with the dots replaced with little hearts.

Finally letting go of the janky mannequin we got back in 2011 or so. Haven't used him in years and he got soiled by mice in storage, so RIP to Mr. Boyfriend. His butt nipples will live on forever in our hearts.

A pair of large insect-style mandibles printed from black plastic.

Primordial's tusk/mandible thingies, fresh off the print bed. Surface finishing soon

A 3d printer in the process of printing a pair of large beetle-esque mandibles in black plastic.

Printing Primordial's big honkin tusk/mandible/face extension pieces! I was thinking part crab claw and part mammalian jawbone and ended up somewhere fairly beetle-y.
-Matt