After many weeks of research and building, I’ve finally finished my collection of top hat models. I have an interest in 19th century history, so this seemed like a good fit for my first entry onto the Blender Market.
I’ve noticed that there are plenty of modern and futuristic models on the market, but it’s difficult to find stuff from the past. I hope I can help fill in that gap a little starting with my Fashion Collection - Top Hats.
In the end, I made 40 different, historically accurate top hats and 10 novelty hats (also researched and modeled accurately). In order to take care of your top hat, I also included the necessary accessories like hat stands, bandbox style hat box, brush, and buffer to shine your hat. An opera hat, called a Gibus, is included with shape key to collapse it.
There are multiple materials with information about when each material was used and in what context. The materials use advanced Cycles shaders built on top of modified Chocofur shaders with special nodes for edge wear/grunge, color swatches, and dust.
Each hat includes the crown, brim, binding, sweatband, lining with moniker, band, and bow. Modifiers include subdivision surface, simple deform for brim curve, and lattice.
Depending on the success of this collection, I’d like to continue on with other types of hats like bowlers, fedoras, western, etc. Would love to hear what you guys think.
Top Hats on the Blender Market:
https://cgcookiemarkets.com/all-products/fashion-collection-top-hats/
