So, this is what the guys from my neighborhood wanted to look like, circa 1984 or so, though I have to say the jeans here are much nicer. I seem to recall that there was a great insistence on the creases being just-so. And the jewelry.
So we consulted the expert on past fashion, and we probably had a little therapy session along the way, so here we are going back in time:
Hey! Marcus– get over here, we’ve got a pastel suit with your name on it– do you wanna be Crockett or Tubbs?
Marcus says that if we want him to take off the jacket we’re gonna have to be nicer about it. Also he said that he is not feeling the femme today, so we gotta respect that.
Sedave is over there muttering something incomprehensible again (Did he say Michael Weston?) and rummaging through trunks. I told him to knock it off before the clouds come in and we lose the weather.
Anyways I told Sedave about what those guys from my neighborhood used to wear circa the mid-eighties— though I would have to say our jeans fit a lot nicer. (They used to iron and crease them. Shudder.) You can almost smell the crunchy hair gel, that weird yellow Listerine, and Marlboro Reds.
Marcus brings on the machismo:
Huh! Well, if’n they’d looked like this I might not have left home.
Hey, Marcus– I just thought of something fun– do you remember the early days of MTV? And what they used to call heavy metal?
Marcus says we can leave all that up to the elf.
Oh, really?
Challenge accepted.
Edit: Take two on trying to do links:
Furb’s Casual Clothes- Beach and Club
Jewelry is Immersive Jewelry, mostly.
ENB is Caffeine.
OMG – I forgot about ironing the jeans! Well, I never did, bc I didn’t give a damn, but I had a pal that would not go anywhere until she had knife creases in her jeans. 🙂
Marcus looks really good in a casual jacket. And his abs look pretty awesome – has he been working out?
He really looks good in shades. And jeans. And okay, don’t tell him, but he looks really good. He’ll start charging you more for the shoots if he knows people think he looks pretty awesome. 😀
That is Marcus’ new skin, which I believe I started a few posts back. You can tell which is old– it’s brighter and smoother and has fewer moles.
Marcus’ original body was done with Femfeet and a whole bunch of textures and I got tired of constantly forgetting to swap out meshes and textures and having wacky feet. The new diffuse is a blend of Fair Men/Real Men and some Vitruvia. I’m trying to remember where I got the moles and stuff that I pasted in, some might be from a female skin. There’s just not that much out there for men.
I think the new spec map is an edit of Fair Men’s; the normal map is however an edit that I did combining Vitruvia and Milkdrinker. I figured someone who does a lot of climbing into (and probably out of) windows is going to have the arms and legs to show for it. So I put together something where the abs and back muscles are more subtle but the veining on the arms is still visible. I’m not sure it’s perfect yet.
The diffuse shader on the abs is one Furb sent me a long time ago that I keep editing down to fit.
I… don’t know why Marcus insisted on this look for this shot. But he did. Now I have to go in and do some with the other guys.