Marvelous Designer

In the next instalment of our Bootcamp series, we explore Marvelous Designer, the amazing application for creating clothing for digital content creation

A s well as having the best name of any digital content creation application, Marvelous Designer has the power to revolutionise the creation of any soft-bodied object for a variety of uses in CGI. The software has become synonymous with clothing creation, but it also has a wide range of other abilities.

One of the unique things about Marvelous Designer is that its workflow will be familiar to both 3D artists and those from a fashion background, as the software sees polygons as cloth elements which are creased and sewn together just like a tailor to hang on the chosen ‘Avatar’ mesh. What is initially surprising about using Marvelous Designer is just how much of the draping is handled by the powerful internal Soft Fabric simulation engine, which can be used for animation as well.

Features that would be complex, if not impossible, to create in other software such as zippers or buttons are easy to create with a couple of clicks in Marvelous Designer, and the simulation engine caters for them accordingly.

With its unique workflow Marvelous Designer can teach 3D designers about how clothes are put together. With the new UV features, fashion designers can find out how to create assets which can be used by other applications, as well as see how their creation will look when it’s worn in the real world. This is thanks to the animation engine which can simulate walk cycles and other poses from the Marvelous Designer store of inbuilt motion cycles.

Speaking of stores Marvelous Designer does come with some great presets, but there is also a huge additional range of clothing examples and patterns available that can be purchased and fitted appropriately to a model, thanks to this unique and easy-touse application.