RealDeal opened this issue on Jun 29, 2005 ยท 37 posts
AmbientShade posted Fri, 01 July 2005 at 4:46 AM
More abstract clothing for both male and female figures would be nice to see. After all, how many skirts, dresses and blouses can one possibly need? Sci-fi stuff is fun and interesting to model and you're not limited by today's standard of whats "normal" or "acceptable". Same goes for armor and fantasy style clothing. I get a lot of ideas for the stuff I model from things I see in movies and music videos. People come up with some really interesting outfits that you wouldn't necessarily see people wearing in an everyday type setting on the street, which means it would be more for those nitch markets, but at the same time, this is all suppose to be art. I can go to walmart and see dozens of people dressed in every day garb of various colors and patterns. That's not very inspiring or imaginative. But what about crossing every day style clothing with really abstract things, so that one image can tell a story or convey thoughts and feelings just by what the figure is wearing, or holding. I'm a big Marilyn Manson fan, and one of my (many) goals is to model outfits based on ideas from the types of clothing he wears in his videos. Especially things like the stuff he wears in 'disposable teens' and 'the nobodies'.I could be wrong but I think he designs most of his own costumes. At the very least I know he has a lot of say as to what goes into them. The eye candy is what attracted me first before I ever paid attention to his lyrics. Back in the early days it was mostly just ripped fishnet and ragged leather but more and more his outfits reflect the messages in his music, just as outfits modeled for various poser characters can reflect messages in the images they're used in. E.D.