DForce Renaissance Dress
Valkeerie
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Many thanks to Ravenhair and Moyra for the dForce Renaisance Dress - I have been wanting something like this for a long time. Last year I used the Sensibility outfit with kitbashing and hocuspocus and VWD to try to get the look, but this product is much better, and I will probably go back and redo some of the renders with the new outfit.
Just in case anyone is searching for another product, the dress was also often worn with an ample sleeveless overdress, open at the front, like a robe. The goal was sumptuous volume and opulence. Puffed upper and lower sleeves could never be too large or too elaborate.
I have found nothing for men. The stuff marked as medieval for DAZ/Poser is mostly 1950's B movie Hollywood rather than anything one is likely to see in a medieval illustration. Plus the differing classes wore different clothes - burgesses, scriveners and scholars tended to wear a long robe with a sleevless overrobe and any number of silly hats, while gallants wore the hose/padded tunic in various styles with the usual flowerpot or other silly hat.
Zeferelli's Romeo and Juliet is a good reference for the earlier part of the Renaissance, and the Borgias for the later part. Hint Hint :-)
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While I am here, I have often thought that Jacobean/Puritian style is a huge omission, given that we have so much Hollywood pirate stuff. Padded jackets, collars or ruffs, tall hats breeches and stockings for the guys, big dresses, collars and bonnets for the ladies. The Salem Witch Trials (1692) and Vermeer (Girl with the Pearl Earring - good source) 1665 actually overlap with peak Caribbean piracy.
Okay, bye now :-)
Ravenhair's Renaissance Dress and Moyras 'Lucrezia' textures are simply irresistible. I just downloaded them, and I am sure they will look great. Thank you, and bravo!
Very nice Tarot cards, Valkeerie! And yes, men's clothes for the period would be great. There is a Renaissance men's outfit for Genesis here at Daz: https://www.daz3d.com/renaissance-male-clothing-for-genesis . Wilmap made one, too. 'Jack of Hearts' is wonderful, but this outfit is also for Genesis: https://www.daz3d.com/jack-of-hearts-for-genesis
Aha. I recognize that headdress from the old kitbash thread where we were trying to roll our own period costumes. It really does work beautifully for these.
Thank you. I did see the Renaissance Male Clothing item, but it is much later than I had in mind, more 1550 than 1450. As for Jack of Hearts, I have the product, and it is delightfully swaggering, but it excels more in imagination than history :-) I tried using it, but I couldn't get enough variety from it to serve a number of characters. I can show you one I did do with some kitbashing, but it is only vaguely right.
Decent clothing is now much easier to do (I am super impressed by the quality of Luthbel's dForce Wise Wizard) so I remain hopeful of actual historical clothing :-)
If you mean the Balzo, yes, I was super grateful to find that. I used the Ghirlanda too. If you were behind the unholy union of Sensibility with Far Journeyer sleeves, then I absolutely used that, and thank you!
Valkeerie, I also prefer historically correct period clothes, so I would be grateful for Renaissance men's outfits. Another nice Tarot card! Funny, some months ago I also started to make a Tarot set (but didn't finish the Major Arcana yet), and chose black characters for the wands set.
Fascinating coincidence. Yes, I had a prolonged inner debate about how to characterise the various court cards. The Tarot project began with a few cards and eventually turned into a book with 40 illustrations, all done in Studio, although I did a lot of post-processing in Filter Forge and Studio to turn them into BW line art suitable for printing.
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I wish you well with the project. It's fun :-) I'm casting around for another project atm.
No, I'm not the one responsible, but I used that combination too. Along with Cohole's textures for Far Journeyer (and probably the Sensibility dress as well). It came out rather well, I always thought. Particularly for something that wasn't designed for the purpose.