Home Made Puppeteer Costume - Border Collie Quadsuit

This is my first canine quadsuit in *eight years* and it was daunting at first to basically re-learn how to do this, at some points I was overwhelmed on just how much there was to do, but I am more than happy with the outcome! We were by no means going for a fully realistic costume, the client wanted a slightly animated look to it since the fact this dog costume is /ginormous/ may cause a very uncanny valley response if it were fully realistic. Eye paint by Stuffed Panda Studios, paw pads and claws by Dream Vision Creations, timed servo by GRNdragon0, and some help sewing the body from my sister, otherwise the rest of the work is painstakingly my own including figuring out my first ever blinking eyes! The timed swinging motorized arm was made for me but how to lid the eyes and rig everything to make them move I had to work out, and it was extra complicated as the eyes are out turned slightly (so the iris does not vanish from a side view) and the typical puppet rig only works with straight forward eyes, it was a pain in the BUM! But I figured it out!  The jaw and ears are set on springs so they move with body motion, the tail is a wire frame and foam core so it moves with body motion, the arm stilts are jointed at the toes and wrists and operate via gravity and body motion, and then the blinking eyes are mechanical. Also please please please excuse the small gaps in the leg joints when bent, they can't be helped with short fur, there is no stretch fabric that will pull that far and then come back smooth, and any excess fabric to hide the gap when bent cannot fold inward when straightor the joint will not close, and excess fabric folded out makes a bulge, which a bulge is fine with long fur as it just looks extra fluffy and thus I can hide gaps on things like the unicorn quad no problem, but for things like this with sort fur I think a big wrinkly bulge of fabric is way worse than a gap :X I am open for quadsuits year round, but be warned they take 2-3 times longer to make than normal costumes and thus cost 2-3 times as much, expect to sink $5500 to $10000 into purchasing one of these depending on what species you want (with the likes of dragons being the $10000 extreme) and what extra features (like blinking eyes) you want it to have.