There are a number of ways to model this blue under-dress, theoretically. It only needs to be rendered from this one angle; it needs to be well UV mapped or have some way of applying the regularly spaced and sized ovals that ring the hem of the dress.
I could create an SVG of the hem and extrude it with the text and shape plugin, but I don’t know if that would be easily UV flattened or automatically UV mapped. This was my first pass at the under-dress (I was working from memory when I modelled it) started as a cylinder that I just bashed into this weird shape:
This is the current workup (background is a stand-in for lighting and feel):
The bustle and apron is going to be adjusted to follow the new hip cant (I was going to use gizmo multiple subtool to deform these 8 subtools, discovered that cannot be done - so I needs rebuild it in total).
It’s the need to have textured surfaces that has held me back most in Zbrush - I can model anything, but when I need to have an undistorted pattern textured on a model is when it comes out stiff and unnatural…like the cape.
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