This week I made Morgan's suit and even had time to start Dorethe's dress, Marvellous Designer is extremely user-friendly and it's been really entertaining/invigoration to learn new software.
I admit I should have taken some more screenshot but anywho I used patterns from my tailoring book and some resources online to create the bases for the shirt and pants, I then refined and edited them to match up to my concepts.
My favourite part of this outfit is definitely the trousers, to create there defining lines I used a tool that creates internal shapes and adjusted the settings till I got a crisp line.
As I'm not s clothes designer I generally stuck to basic shapes, and then made them more detailed one I saw how the fabric fell.
To create the waistcoat I used the shirt pattern as a base, and then adjusted the lines to fit the design.
As Marvellous doesn't have a button tool (as far as I know) I had to simulate a closed double-breasted waistcoat by making cuts in the front, and then stitching the opposite sides together. This was quite a bit of trail and error but I'm really satisfied with the end result.
Adding a collar
I added an almost Dracula-esque peak to the back of the waistcoat to give flair to Morgan; it helps sell his dark, tall and brooding character.
To finish up the waistcoat I used internal shapes to simulate button holes and made some fake pockets. Considering this is the first outfit I've made in Marvellous I'm pretty impressed with myself.
Moving onto Dorethe now, the women's dresses will be a lot easier to make as they're less fitted and more soft flowing fabric.
I couldn't for the life of me simulate the bustle effect in Marvellous so I went back into 3dsMax and made a fake crinoline (metal posterior-maker) which I'll delete later on.
This immediately gave the recognisable Victorian shape.
The skirt has quite a few folds so the large circle pattern gave the best effect. As Dorethe has a more complicated chest area, I stuck with simple rectangles at first and added and stitched points to wrap around her body.
On a side note I really loved this stage of making the dress because it reminds me of Aleera's dress from Van Helsing...
I then moved on to adding the lining for her blouse.
Currently I've started to work on her 2 top skirts and her sleeves, so far this dress has been really interesting to make and though I'm using techniques that I learnt from making the suit, I'm also learning new processes and tools.
My next steps will be to finish Dorethe and Vivienne's outfits, after that I can consider the best way of re-topologising the outfits.
