Digital Runways with Blender and CLO3D Short Course

During this course, students gain hands-on experience navigating the CLO3D interface and crafting basic garments. Transitioning to Blender, the course covers the importation of these garments and the basics of setting up creative digital runways.

Students explore the key features that help bring digital fashion presentations to life, such as texturing, lighting and simple animations.

By the end of the course, students will understand the basics of CLO3D and Blender and appreciate the transformative power of digital tools in fashion.

Course outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Navigate and utilise CLO3D for fashion design

• Export designs from CLO3D

• Operate Blender for digital scene creation

• Construct a digital fashion runway scene

Topics covered

• Foundations of digital fashion design: introduction to CLO3D and Blender for fashion design, focusing on garment creation and digital scene setup

• 3D modelling and texturing: techniques for creating realistic garments and applying textures and materials in both CLO3D and Blender

• Digital runway scene creation: building immersive digital runway scenes in Blender, including environmental effects and lighting

• Lighting and rendering techniques: discover how to effectively light your digital scenes and render high-quality images that showcase your designs in the best possible light