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CLO3D Intermediate for Design and 3D Visualisation of Garments Online Short Course

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Elevate your CLO3D skills to visualise your designs digitally. Improve your ability to express and refine design details, approach challenges and achieve more creative results.
Next start months
September 2026
January 2027
April 2027
Tutor(s)
Annika Andersson
Price
From £480.00

Course description

Course overview

Designed to help students become more advanced in the use of CLO3D software, this course will help you visualise your designs digitally in CLO3D.

During the course, you will improve your ability to express and refine various design details such as drawstrings with drawcords, shoulder pads, twisted garments, volume pockets, layering, elastics, frills, pleats and puffs. You will also learn how to create laser cuts, import vector shapes from Illustrator and discover how to attach trims using the glue function. Students will be shown how to approach different challenges using different techniques to help develop skills for precision.

The course also explores texture maps and texture editor, and how they can be used to customise prints and textures inside CLO3D. For example, using texture editor for repeats or creating lace using transparency. More complex materials such as fur, knit and lighting material settings will also be covered. You will be shown how to customise topstitches for use as embellishments or custom trims, as well as setting up colourways for creating range plans.

The course also looks at avatar customisation, custom posing and auto rigging inside CLO3D. Students gain an insight into how to set up lighting and render settings for quality image outputs and animate using key frames for more creative results in CLO3D. The aim is to help students become more creative and confident when using CLO3D.

Who this course is for

This course is aimed at anyone who has completed the Introduction to CLO3D and 3D Fashion Design Online Short Course or has some basic knowledge of CLO3D (intermediate level).

The course has a focus on design and creativity to help designers and creatives improve their CLO3D skills to visualise their garments in CLO3D. This could be for the garment / fashion industry, costume, digital fashion or gaming.

Students will be expected to be familiar with the CLO3D interface, be able to navigate in the 2D and 3D windows and have a basic understanding of how to sew a garment inside CLO3D.

Key information

Topics covered

  1. Garment details: drawstring, volume pockets, shoulder pads, elastics, frills
  2. Padding, pleats and layering
  3. Material, print and trim customisations
  4. Attaching trims
  5. Avatar customisation, rendering and animations

Learning outcomes

  • Become more advanced in the use of CLO3D
  • Have the knowledge to create more challenging garment details in CLO3D
  • Understand how to use layering
  • Understand texture maps, advanced material settings and print customisations
  • How to use custom topstitches for trims and embellishments
  • Set up colourways for range plans
  • How to customise an avatar in CLO3D
  • How to set up light and render settings for quality images
  • How to create a turntable and animation
  • Receive a digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials

Essential materials:

Recommended materials:

  • Notebook and pen
  • Mobile phone with a camera

Tutor

Annika Andersson

Annika Andersson has decades of experience working as a fashion designer for multiple well known retailers, established brands and niche start ups. She has vast experience in the design process from concept to finished garments, real life experience and knowledge that she uses when teaching CLO3D and Substance Painter. Annika started to use CLO3d nine years ago, trained by the official CLO3d team in Munich.

Currently, Annika work on various freelance projects as well as an Associated Lecture on the BA fashion design courses at LCF, teaching CLO3d and the Adobe Suite. Annika has worked with creatives and factories around the world and understands the challenges in creativity vs commerciality and crafts vs technology. Annika is able to relate the use of CLO3d and Substance Painter in the commercial industry, sustainable benefits as well as virtual thought-provoking ideas.

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