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Welcome to Koi Fox Studios!Also known as "Lynnehassell.com", or on Ebay as "Custom*Mascot*Heads" and to the state corporation commission as "Custom Mascots LLC"! (yes I am a real buisness that pays taxes!) Email me: lynnehassell [at] yahoo [dot] com ...but first, please see if your questions are answered here: Hi and thanks for stopping by, my name is Lynne Hassell, but if you met me at a convention you'll know me as Crimsson Koisquixen. Someday I want to make a fursuit of my fursona, a squirrel crossed with a fox with a koi fish tail. However I am currently so busy making fursuits for others right now that it may be awhile before I can get to it (this is a good problem to have eh?) I do the drawings and most of the work on the heads and details however I cannot take credit for making every part of all these suits, I also have a professional seamstress who helps me immensely, the wonderful and talented KATE DaPUMA, who sews up most of the bodysuits as well as helping me with all the other steps in the studio AND she is wonderful company to boot! I also have a website manager/ email checker/ financer and fiancée, the most cordial THREADBEAR may be the first person you reach when trying to contact me. We are a 2-gal 1-guy team working together to create your inner animal fursona or school/ company mascot in a timely and professional manner. We have a stockpile of awesome furs on hand as well as wholesale access to a constantly changing west coast fur market. Our basic order of operations after receiving your email request is to first discuss your design including options, colors and size dimensions of the suit, and make a detailed estimate for you. We really prefer you to already have some reference art of your character made and sent with your request since the art Lynne makes is more of a blueprint for making the suit than a portrait of your character. Then, once the deposit of 30%-50% is paid, we send you an envelope full of 1"x1" swatches of furs in your chosen colors for you to touch and choose from. Then we purchase your materials and get to work! You will be updated with photos of the progress as your suit is being made and final payment is not due until you approve the finished work in photos. Once final payment has been processed we ship your suit priority mail with insurance and delivery confirmation required. Though we most typically make animal characters with full-body fursuits, paws, tails and heads, we can also make many other kinds of costumes, including outfits for your fursuit character to wear. Also we have engineering friends just itching for the chance to make you some robotic solenoid controls for 'twitching' ears and 'wagging' tails. We are also interested in seeing if there is a demand for natural fiber wicking fursuit liners which you wear under your fursuit to protect it from excess moisture possibly with cool pack pockets built in to hold reusable chemical ice packs. We love a challenge, keeps us busy and out of trouble so bring it on! So you're still reading eh? Well maybe you'd like to know how I learned to make fursuits then, or maybe how I came to discover my furry-ness? Well, it all started back in 1996 with Anime and kitty girls. I loved to pretend to be a cat and wear a tail when I was a kid, and when I learned there was a culture that had human-animal hybrids as part of their lore and in their current art I became a total Japanophile. I watched all the anime I could get ahold of, there was not a lot to be had in '96, I learned to like sushi, I learned Japanese words, I wanted to go to a CONVENTION! and I wanted to dress up for the occasion. My mom taught me how to sew when I was young and helped me make my first costume, Sailor Mars, for my first convention OTAKON! I was 15 and grappling with late puberty and being a nerd and not fitting in well at school. This convention experience changed my whole world view; this is where I found my Zion! I realized there's a bigger world outside of school, and there are other people like me out there too! So I got hooked on convention-going, I made convention friends that I could make costumes and skits with and whom I could carpool with to go to the next convention. My friends and I began making costumes to go to all the conventions on the east coast, Nekocon, Katsucon, even as far as Akon in Texas! We won prizes at every convention! We got into anime magazines, our pictures were all over the internet. My crafting skills just got better and better, culminating with a huge Pika-Chu costume, my first real fursuit! When I first unrolled the 6 yards of bright yellow fur that I ordered for that costume across my room, I couldn't stop myself from hugging it! It wasn't even anything but a pile of fabric but I LOVED it! My course was set from that point on, college was an annoying but essential distraction from my calling. Thank you for reading this!
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