DarkEdge opened this issue on Dec 03, 2009 · 34 posts
momodot posted Thu, 03 December 2009 at 6:07 PM
Attached Link: Japanese70'sHouse
My family is generally of very modest means -- because of circumstances and milieux generally production workers. My father came to North America after serving in the military in his country and made a modest living as a mechanic before he died young. I went to university and post-graduate studies on scholarship and working factory jobs etc. before becoming a professional. My family on both sides is distributed between North America, Caribbean, Central America, the Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa. I never see Poser scenes that reflect this sort of working class setting of the family I have visited and stayed with when I was younger. This Mumbai setting is a little bit more modest than most of the homes of my family but still pretty close.I think their are any number of reasons why people would want nice Indian or African or Caribbean or in my particular case Middle Eastern everyday working class settings to tell narratives and make images. The colors of things are often much more vivid and interesting for that matter than what you find in America and Europe and certainly people's homes have lots of detail and furnishing in the clutter that are interesting and would make great Poser props: eating trays, rice sifters, kerosene stoves, plastic buckets, fine carved and gilded European chairs for guests and of course chickens running in and out of the house. Maybe a goat or sheep tethered out by the kitchen door or by the stairs.
Also contemporary clothes as worn in different countries would be nice too. In many places people wear pajamas outside and shopping and loose clothes like galabias and the men casual head wraps and the women tightly wrapped head scarves quite different from the "Biblical" clothes I have found for Poser.
I used to do commercial illustration with Poser years ago and would rig the clothes and hair in as primitives that I would painter over completely in post-work to create regional clothing and everyday hair styles but really in my opinion Poser needs more everyday ordinary stuff as opposed to all the glut of luxury and fantasy products. It is funny, at DAZ the only realistic style hair is for Carrara not Poser :(
Reika has two wonderful Japanese apartments priced so modestly in the store here... imagine similar apartments modeled after those found in other countries! Even in the USA most apartments I have stayed in date from the 1930s through 1950s.