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Unreal Engine for Fashion Designers Beginner Short Course

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<p>Unreal Engine for Fashion Designers Beginner Short Course | On campus<br></p><p>Image: Yunyin Li, 2022 BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production, London College of Fashion, UAL | Photograph: Yunyin Li</p>
Explore the creative potential of Unreal Engine for fashion design with this beginner-friendly course. Learn how to navigate the Unreal Engine interface and workflow.
Next start months
October 2026
January 2027
March 2027
Tutor(s)
Zoe Vanezis
Price
From £470.00

Course description

Course overview

Taught through a combination of demonstrations and practical exercises, this course introduces students to Unreal Engine and its potential as a creative tool for presenting fashion work in immersive digital environments.

The course aims to give students with a background in fashion, including fashion design, print and textile design, and fashion marketing, the chance to explore how their existing creative skills can be translated into a real-time 3D workflow. During the course, students gain an insight into how game engine technologies can be used to build interactive spaces that reflect their own aesthetic and creative vision.

By the end of the course, students will develop an explorable digital gallery for their work, featuring a customised MetaHuman playable character and rendered cinematic sequences. Along the way, students will be introduced to key Unreal Engine tools including MetaHumans, Sequencer, and Blueprints. These will be shared with the group during the last session.

To get the most out of the course, students will be expected to complete independent work outside of class for up to 3 hours.

Who this course is for

This beginner-friendly course is designed for anyone interested in exploring how Unreal Engine can be used within their creative practice, with a particular focus on those from a fashion background.

Students will get the most out of the course if they bring examples of their own work to incorporate into the project, such as images, videos, garments, sculptures, or other visual material.

Key information

Topics covered

  • Unreal Engine as a tool for creative processes
  • Worldbuilding with Fab, existing assets/plugins, and your own work
  • Building PBR materials
  • Customising MetaHumans and fitting them into your workflow
  • Using sequencer to create cinematic renders
Learning outcomes

  • Understand and navigate the Unreal Engine interface and workflow
  • Import and integrate personal creative assets (images, textures, designs, etc.)
  • Build a simple interactive 3D environment
  • Create and customise a MetaHuman character
  • Use Sequencer to produce cinematic renders
  • Explore how Unreal Engine can fit into fashion workflows
  • Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials

Required materials:

  • Notebook and pen
  • External hard drive or USB stick with a minimum of 32GB to ensure you can save and continue your work outside of the classes.
  • Please set up an Epic Games account before the first session and have your email address and password ready to use.
Recommended materials:

  • You may wish to bring in examples of your work that you want to bring into the Engine, including drawings, images, videos, 3D scans - there will be guidance on this throughout the sessions.

Tutor

Zoe Vanezis

Zoe Vanezis is a digital fashion designer, worldbuilder, and educator working at the intersection of fashion, real-time technology, and immersive storytelling. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, they later returned to teach a course exploring how 3D software can expand and transform the contemporary fashion design process.

They currently teach at Central Saint Martins, where they introduced Unreal Engine into the fashion curriculum across multiple pathways, helping students explore new workflows connecting fashion design with real-time environments, virtual production, and interactive media. 

Zoe is an Unreal Authorized Instructor and has presented their work for Unreal Engine at Unreal Fest in Stockholm on the evolving relationship between fashion, real-time technology, and digital environments.

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