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Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist Progress with the Native Dancer (ND) Project is going well. Working through various parts of the designs has helped me to progress past designs of street clothing and continue to move forward with making regalia. During the short holiday week, I focused more on the paper proposal […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist This week for Native Dancer I have been working on a few different things involving this project. Mainly working on the jingle dress more and working on a paper proposal for submitting. Since last week, the first jingle dress has not changed much in appearance, but I […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist This past week, I finished adding the final elements to this first jingle dress, from the back of the dress to the jingle hanging elements. I would say it is complete in the Marvelous Designer (MD) program. Through this process I worked in adobe illustrator, and Meshmixer […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist For the past week and a half, I have been busy refining the designs of the jingle dress/dresses. I have finally been able to move forward with the design in Marvelous Designer(MD) after fully planning out the designs. In this post, I will be discussing all the […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist This week I worked on detailing the choice design for the first regalia piece we will create on a 3D character. As discussed in past meetings and discussions with the Native Dancer advisory team, we wanted a full jingle dress with sleeves that come together at the […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist The overall idea behind creating these characters in regalia started with a concept, and sketches early in the character development to understand the overall goal. After creating characters and familiarizing myself with the Marvelous Designer (MD) software via the creation of street clothing I began to plan to […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist My research into native American representation in the metaverse and video games so far has gone well. The overall tone of what I am finding is that no one has done it without some sort of criticism, but many have been praised for various aspects. The first […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist This past week I have continued to work on the Native Dancer characters’ street clothing options to maintain my learning in the marvelous designer (MD) program. I have also begun researching various subjects related to the work I am doing. This research has included looking at and […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist This week has been all about refining what I have learned so far in marvelous designer (MD) and about Character Creator, diving into the smaller details of the clothing designs. There has been a mix of jumping between all the tools in MD as well as looking deeper into […]

Author: Ariann Rousu – Native Dancer Digital Artist This week I have made progress in both Character Creator(CC) and marvelous designer(MD). I have successfully gone back into CC and modified various body parts on the female character to make her more proportionate, been able to change the fabrics and fabric settings on clothing patterns I […]