Hello!
I wanna present you my last project : a realistic “Gille”. Gille is a character of the Belgian carnival, the most famous is the Gille of Binche, but there’s other carnivals with gilles, we can mention : La Louvière, Morlanwelz, Manage, etc.
I did 3 renders representing a moment of the carnival. Traditionally the carnival last 3 days, always start on Sunday and end on Tuesday. The purpose of this carnival is to drive away winter.
Gille’s costume varies depending the “louageur” (Louageur = the guy who created the costume, he also repair it, and you rent the costume from the louageur. It’s hard to explain it because it’s a french belgian word).
With the mask. (Only on Sunday morning)
The color’s hat varies, you can have a plain white, or a colored one. It cost 600$ to create the hat. (You rent it at a “Louageur”). I personally prefer a white hat, though for this render I tried with purple on it and it look really cool too.
I’ve seen hat like this, but also with pink/orange/yellow/red, sometimes there’s 3 or 4 colors on it but it’s too much imo.
A gille can rent a hat, but, when you do the carnival you prepare it for a long time, and you never know what time it will be during the carnival. If it rains, you can’t wear your hat. (Because the feathers will absorb water, which is a really bad thing, as I said it cost 600$…).
You’re not forced to wear the hat. Except in Binche, there’s a day where all the gilles of a group wear the hat (except if it rains).
And if you still don’t have a good representation of this carnival, you can watch this :
Thank you very much, I hope you liked it 
