Why is any new release at DAZ so 70's
RCTSpanky
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Since the release of Genesis 8.1 nearly any bigger bundle is retro and in 70's style. Therefore anything was Cyberpunk. Why are always that themed content over several months. Is there a reason? Personally I'm happy that I didn't bought the Seasons pass, when I get only this retro stuff.
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Just look at the furniture - in 3D or in real life. Everything only 50s, 60s and 70s. Horrible for my exquisite taste ;-), but people love it, for whatever reason.
It is a case of why not.. It has been good that Daz are mixing things up, and brings back a lot of memories for me, since I grew up in the 70's..
It is just whatever the PA's come up with, and since 70's inspired clothes and furniture ("retro") are somewhat popular these days, they obviously get inspired by that.
Designs are often made using "reference images". And that's generally not just a couple of images of one single article photographed from different angles, but of a variety of articles. A designer making a 70's outfit will not just have images of an outfit similar to what he/she has in mind, but also of other outfits, simply because certain details seem to be useful. Or even of things like furniture and wallpaper of that (or other) style, to get a better grasp on the "design language". The way something like a chair is designed, can explain a lot about how something like a belt clasp is designed, showing how corners were rounded in that style, or at what angle different lines should merge.
And when fashion and interior magazines are constantly showing retro/seventies things, then the PA's will be getting a lot of retro/seventies inspiration and reference images.
Me, too. (Born in '57) but honestly, a LOT of that stuff is 80's NOT 70's.
Also, the 70's is considered the worst fashion decade in history. All that horrible Disco stuff...
..Joe
I like it, personally I am more into 1930's stuff, but 70's is nice. I think it is a breath of fresh air after all SciFi and Fantasy stuff, but to each there own.
Correct.
It's funny how fluid the term "retro" has become. Though it is a fairly generalized term, it typically referred to mid-twentieth century, primarily 40s and 50s with the occasional bleed into the early 60s. But what can I say, I'm an old school baby boomer.
Retro does not refer to a specific time period. It simply means in the style of something 20 to 30 years past.
Personally, I like the 60's and 70's. I can't fathom the 80's stuff though. Living through that period was bad enough.
It's been pretty welcomed for me. Do I need all the stuff from the 70's? No, but it's nice to see something different that hasn't been a focal point in the store the last couple of years that I had nothing for and have been picking up a nice little array of items. I also loved the set of 90's clothes that were released the other day, that brought me back lol.
Wasn't trying to argue otherwise, just saying that the term was applied to a lot of mid 20th century art and design and it stuck. Your 20-30 years past quantification seems a little off as it would exclude anything prior to the 90s. The 80s have pretty much jumped on the retro bandwagon thanks to things like Stranger Things and WW84. It doesn't seem like 90s pop culture has quite entered into the retro dynamic just yet.
Floppy bell bottom pant legs and floppy sleeves fit the dForce tube clothing model?
Now if they gave us a High Quality, Male Bundle based around Starky and Hutch, I'd be tempted - I could do some S&H renders, I've facegen-ed Paul Michael Glaser but not David Soul yet, got the car, but I need the clothes, like Starsky's bomber jackets. Starsky saw me into my Teens and I'll always have a softspot for him :-) Other than that I can live without the 70's (and just ignore the 80's, 90's onwards 'period' clothes). Could do with some timeless pieces that could be used in just about any time period, like well made demin shirt, demin jacket, jeans (not skin tight - modeled folds, maybe with a flair morph for people who need it) with stiffness like denim would have and not paperthin dforce.
LOL, I still have (some of my) late 70s & 80s clothing although I did give away a few pairs of Levi's 501s that I had never worn. I do like the 60s clothes better, or at least the 60s fashion looks noticably awesome in TV shows and movies while the same is not true of 70s & 80s fashion on TV and movies. Maybe it's just the film & lighting technology used?
There are two undeniable facts in this world: One, the seventies had the best music and Two, the Edwardian period had the best fashion.
70s aren't really my jam, but I am always happy when Daz expands the range of options for everyone.
*cough* the computer equipment in that one props package is the 1980's not 1970's. I know. I was there :P
True. The clothing of the era was awful, but the music made up for it. LOL
Published Artists are clearly influenced by Video Games, TV Shows, Movies, Comics, Fashion, Musicians, and other forms of Pop Culture.
The Cyberpunk themed stuff was pretty clearly aligned with the release of the video game Cyberpunk 2077 (for better or worse), and a lot of TV Shows have been bringing back "Retro" eras — WandaVision comes to mind (1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s TV Sitcom styles)... and Stranger Things (1980s era).
They are drawing inspiration from combining these things and collectively making variations on a theme that rides on the waves of other highly anticipated top-of-mind content's publicity that the general public is getting exposed to, while trying hard not to violate copyrights at the same time. It must be a challenging task! They're also trying to capitalize on memorabilia and nostalgia that they believe will appeal to this particular niche 3D model buying audience... the Daz 3D Community.
What Published Artists often fail to realize is that sewing patterns are generally not eligble for copyright protection, so they don't have to make such extreme alterations to clothing patterns...
https://library.osu.edu/site/copyright/2014/07/14/patterns-and-copyright-protections/
There's a huge catalog of untapped creative inspiration from the fashion world which is constantly reinventing itself, and is always reycling things from the past and reinterpretting it for the present. As long as they don't use any trademarked insignias, logos, symbols or phrases — they can make much more historically accurate clothing with more research.
That happens when people wear plastic.
Why do you play that record all the time?
It makes your dress look better, honey...
I love accurate period stuff and historical stuff. You can't do convincing 1970s themes without the clothes, hairdos, cars, furniture, design, electronic devices, etc. There's even less for 1940s themes. I have nothing with cyberpunk or fetishwear or manga or steampunk or hyperborean barbarians or riduculously oversized weapons or horror, of which DAZ is flooded. Only pick up that stuff as freebies. To each his own.
90`s .....
It was a great time for me!
I was a touring metal/punk musician living the life!
But I cant remember anything that sticks out as far as men`s fashion fom back then.
Today`s shorts look the same, and so do the T-shirts.. But then again, Im still wearing the same garb today as I was back then LOL
Heck, I wore my Pantera Cowboy`s From Hell T-shirt to work today, and they still sell the same shirt design!
I know because some high school kid was wearing the same shirt hahaha
mostly jeans, tshirts, studs lots of studs, leather, denium jackets with band patches, recently bought a ac/dc hoodie with album patches. Belts big belt buckles , sleeveless jackets, high heel boots for some, studded armbands or nails sticking out of them, lingerie, kinky stuff, I was still a fan of the 70/80s+ metal/hard rock I'd post few examples but they'd get deleted