Daz 3D is part of 
Connect
DAZ Productions, Inc.
7533 S Center View Ct #4664
West Jordan, UT 84084
Licensing Agreement | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | EULA
© 2025 Daz Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Comments
With regard to making more period dress/costumes these are often technically complex, not to mention DAZ's extremely high standards for clothing submissions.
As a new PA I have a particular interest in the 1920s and would like to produce clothing/accessories/decor from this era, but it is going to be very time consuming!
Ha1 I have always loved architectural magazines and am a sucker for things like this: https://thespaces.com/holiday-homes-for-rent-designed-by-top-architects/
For real life examples of Art Deco architecture still in existence, watch the British show "Poirot" with David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fastidious detective during the '30s.
https://www.pinterest.com/antoniadesigns/poirot-and-art-deco-bbc-production/
Welcome to the one-percenter's world.
It's like the American soap operas on TV. Who do you know that lives in places like that? Give me Britian's "East Enders" where real people live.
Oh my god, a new PA who is interested in period dress/costume and IN PARTICULAR 1920s?! The fact you exist just made my day @Silas3D ! I can't wait to see your creations down the road.
Haha, this is very much the experience of those of us who grew up in 90s watching Friends. As a kid, I loved it. Then I got into my mid-20s and was like, "Ok... Season 1 Monica is a diner cook, Rachel is a waitress, Joey is an out of work actor and Chandler an office drone... and they live in those apartments in the Upper East/West side of Manhattan, a stone's throw from Central Park??? I hate this stupid LYING show!" lol
Or Coronation Street?
https://www.daz3d.com/northern-terrace-street
I have a friend who lives in a penthouse at the top of a modern 8th avenue apartment building in lower Manhattan near Greenwich Village. Doorman, guilded lobby, elevators to the top (about 15 floors). He's a successful audio engineer. The apartment is about half the size of mine out here in the boondocks and I feel cramped. Yeah, he's got a balcony overlooking 8th avenue and the Hudson river and it's modern and clean but it's TINY. Definitely not a one-percenter's abode.
You think our soaps are any more realistic than yours - you are mistaken.
DELETE
LOL, if you're not Ace, I guess.
Pinup work is always fun for me. It's a shame one cannot share it here, although I don't disagree with the reasons.
They at least tried to justify Monica's situation by revealing that she was illegally subletting the (rent-controlled) apartment from her grandmother.
Well, admittedly, I haven't watched East Enders since the early '90s back when Wendy Richard was still in the series. Back then I got the impression that the apartments were small, dark & cluttered.
Even though I own my house I will pick of those Homes for Sale magazine given away for free at local banks and such places and look at the houses in them. It's sort of day dreamy and nostaligic activity. I also read the New York Post for one reason & one reason only, to browse the Real Estate section and save the pictures on my phone of the buildings and building interiors I find pretty.
I lived in Manhattan for a short time very close to the U.N. in an apartment on the 2nd floor. It was cramped and I kind of liked it as it was like living in central Chicago when I was a kid or in downtown Zurich again. Everything is so convenient to do without spending an extra dime via walking and no car needed and you don't even have to ride the subway, trains, or trams except to leave downtown. It is very expensive though, much more than I could afford, it was a loaner apartment to try out Manhattan, if I had decided to stay I was going to have to move to Jersey City.
Now with these movement restrictions in big cities I'm glad I decided not to stay; before I would walk from one end of Manhattan to the other just to see the architecture.
Hmmm, for me, maybe 20 years ago that walking would have been OK. But now it takes some serious will power to walk from one end of the living room to the other to see if the view has changed.
I once walked from the middle of Washington, DC, down across the 14th street bridge to deep into Rosslyn, VA, at night in below zero-F temperatures, in a blizzard because the taxi's wouldn't run. While wearing jeans, running shoes, and a light jacket. Weather changes quick in DC.
You don't? Wait... what else is there to render? o.O
Maybe this would be a good time to bring out that new DAZ cat.
LOL, I think I was there when you were then. I used to be sent to work in the Pentagon all the time and usually was booked to stay in Crystal City and I think that blizzard you are talking about happened, almost positive, in January 1995. While I did take the subway to the Pentagon and to the Mall area and to my hotel room because of the difficulty of crossing those huge DC highways with no traffic lights or sidewalk I loved walking all over the mall area and out to Arlington National Cemetary just sight seeing. I walked for miles and miles.
I remember people in that blizzard acutally making a giant snommen with snowballs 5' tall and also cross country skiing. Also, during the time that snow was on the ground there was no waiting to get into any tourist attractions, none. I could go up the Wahington Monument elevator like a yo-yo. In these days tourists could visit special parts of the Pentagon basically just by walking in and going through a little ID check. The weirdest thing about that time of blizzard though was then tourists could visit the room in the White House that has (maybe had by now) a worn red carpet and the famous portrait of Kennedy standing in a suit with his chin in his hand looking at the floor at the entrance to the hall leading to the rest of the White House (it's the room on the far southeast corner of the WH) and normally you have to go through a security check at a booth with a White House police guard but when I tried to go during that blizzard time there no police guard there and no one else there was either, not even another tourist, but the gate was open and the sidewalk cleared of snow as I just walked all the way to that room, saw the portrait of Kennedy, looked just a bit around the room and wondered where everybody was. It was then I got really scared and spooked, "Where is everybody???!!! No one in here either!", and so turned around and left the White House grounds, fast! Not too fast though even though I was spooked as I didn't want to get shot.
Actually, almost all of my work is Pinup/Erotica and the thrill is gone for now. Now of someone came out with a new dForce Bettie Page style hair with options (please Biscuits?) and someone maybe came out with some 20s era lingere and/or clothing with undress morphs, the thrill woudl be back in a big way and I would start working on my black and white images again. Unfortunately 99% of my work can not be shared here.
Update:
Manhattan is still the same except...
Everything is closed and...
Subways are being cleaned fom 1am to 5am every day. No 24 hour subway service. SUUCCKKS for me because i work a job that includes overnights. Arghh. Nope, you're not missing anything. The only good thign about New York is that we respect the experts and wear our darned masks most of the time. I just got tresults that I tested positive for antibodies, so that either means at best I'm immune or at worst I'm a carrier. Whooo freaking knows??? Luckily our numbers havent jumped again in New York State nor in NYC.ut I actually feel safer in NYC than in some other parts of the country where its just hitting for the first time and people arent following guidelines. Wishing everyone the best. Protect yourself!!!!!!!! Protect your loved ones!!! Make lots of renders of people wearing PPE
Artbreeder pretty much sucked the digital life out of me.
Throw in any picture/render and presto! 500 portrait variations each most likely better than what you were painstakingly rendering at the push of an AI button.
...got that one. Also have a set of old British row houses.
...
My muse has been on a long, very extended vacation for many, many months now. I tried to switch to modeling again for awhile as I haven't done a freebie in ages, but even there I'm lacking imagination. Maybe Blender will kickstart something, tho so far there hasn't been much improvement ;). Sometimes I go like that tho. I'll go for years sometimes without any real inspiration before I come back to it. I guess time will tell ;) Certainly nothing in the Daz store has struck much of my fancy lately other than a couple environment sets. Meh. LOL
Laurie
Now THAT I could go for. There isn't nearly enough NICE period clothing available for Daz figures.
...at least since Gen4 when there were several 1940s & 50s styles. I'd love to see more clothing from the early to mid 20th century (particularly the Art Nouveau/Deco period) for the newer Genesis characters as old styles have a way of coming back in vogue now & then.
I used to dismiss Art Deco, but have grown to love it. Very elegant in a simplistic way. It was watching episodes of "Poirot" that changed my mind. I loved catching the Art Deco styles in the architecture and room decor.
..we ahe a few nice examples here in Portland.
Heck, I'd love to render some Portland scenery. There's so many parts of the city and surroundings that are so picturesque. Pioneer Courthouse Square filled with all the weird characters in my library would be a fun one to do.
...though not deco, I particularly love our train station.
This just off Pioneer Square
,,,and the Hollywood Cinema.
...and where I had my first apartment after I moved to Portland 31 years ago (345$ a month for a large 1 BR).
Detail of the entrance.
However, the problem with room decoration in Art Deco style depends on everything in the room being in the style, otherwise it's like throwing pebbles into a smoothly running clock.
Personally, my room decoration style is "Late LeatherGryphon". Very much like "Victorian Clutter".