3DESIGN: The Fundamentals of Digital Fashion Design
Digital transformation is reshaping the future of the fashion industry with 3D virtual fashion design placed at the core.
This is the first of 3 courses in our 3DESIGN specialism providing the digital design skills needed to stimulate creative thinking for your career in fashion.
Our real time, step-by-step instruction method, delivered by 3D experts help you understand how to apply digital to your fashion design practice while gaining powerful insights into the latest software.
We teach with CLO3D and other interfacing software to guide the development of your own signature as a digital fashion designer. If you do not have your own CLO3D licence, the course includes access to an official CLO3D academic licence for 2 months (NB. The last intake to benefit from this is November 4, 2023. After that intake the CLO3D academic licence will not be available).
At the end of the course, you will have an opportunity to join one of our industry collaboration projects to showcase your work on a digital platform.
This is the first of 3 courses in our 3DESIGN specialism providing the digital design skills needed to stimulate creative thinking for your career in fashion.
Our real time, step-by-step instruction method, delivered by 3D experts help you understand how to apply digital to your fashion design practice while gaining powerful insights into the latest software.
We teach with CLO3D and other interfacing software to guide the development of your own signature as a digital fashion designer. If you do not have your own CLO3D licence, the course includes access to an official CLO3D academic licence for 2 months (NB. The last intake to benefit from this is November 4, 2023. After that intake the CLO3D academic licence will not be available).
At the end of the course, you will have an opportunity to join one of our industry collaboration projects to showcase your work on a digital platform.
What you are going to experience
This unique contemporary course includes future project collaboration with our industry partners
Throughout this course you will be guided to experiment with various software used for digital fashion design and will explore your place in the digital and phygital worlds to:
Following your course we will work with our industry partners to periodically select outfits/collections for asset creation and digitisation for inclusion in their online platforms.
- Develop CLO3D skills
- Understand the digital fashion mindset
- Research contemporary design
- Identify your place in the digital and phygital world of fashion
- Design within the digital sphere
Following your course we will work with our industry partners to periodically select outfits/collections for asset creation and digitisation for inclusion in their online platforms.
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syllabus & curriculum overview (full curriculum AVAILABLE on enrolment)
3DESIGN: The Fundamentals of Digital Fashion Design
Introduction
The kick-off with course structure and overview
The Digital Professors introduce themselves and provide material to outline the equipment you need for the course, how to navigate the course, the process for downloading and accessing your 2 month CLO3D academic licence (available until end December 2023), and the course learning outcomes
02 Construct & Reconstruct
Pattern transformation & digital re-creation
Discover and learn about new working processes and techniques resulting from the transition to 3D digital design and development from traditional methods
03 Texture & prints
Interfacing software for graphics, prints and texture
Construct a designer T-shirt with folded seams and apply placement prints and graphics using illustrator/photoshop while recreating accurate fabric textures
04 Dress My Avatar
Adjusting & fitting to the avatar
Choosing and importing avatars to adapt, change and personalise. Layering garments on the avatar to create outfits
05 the art of pleating
Analysing drape & volume
Analysis of drape and volume to understand folds and pleats and learn how to create volume in 3D designing
01 Challenge
The challenge to create your first digital fashion asset
This unit is informative, motivational, and playful with a CLO3d working method introduction leading to the challenge of creating your first digital fashion asset
06 PUFF PRODUCTION
Dedicated to finishing and final presentation
Completing garments, outfit, avatar poses and photoshoot scenes for presentation while developing and finalising technical packs for production
Conclusion
Concluding the course and obtaining your certificate
To conclude the course we recap on the DRESSX Collaboration in preparation for you to be briefed to design outfits for a capsule collection for review and selection for development as NFTs for the DRESSX platform.
You will then proceed to access and download your certificate.
You will then proceed to access and download your certificate.
curriculum overview for Introduction and UNit 01 (full curriculum AVAILABLE on enrolment)
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