I spent this week becoming familiar with the Clo3D software and used training files provided by Clo to practice my new skills. I am now confident in placing, sewing and simulating garments on avatar bodies. It’s been exhausting trying to learn a new method of fitting garments in such a short space of time but I’ve really enjoyed experimenting with industry-standard software and I am beginning to see how useful this could be for me going forward in the garment-technology side of my degree – it’s made me realise that the technology side of fashion is what I’m most interested in:)
The other area that I’ve looked at this week is reviewing the size specification for the Sailing jacket which will be virtually simulated as part of the final outcome for this project (curtesy of Grace Rudge – FDT Graduate 2019). I’ve become hugely absorbed in size specifications and body proportions over the past few weeks so being able to review and alter a size specification for a real garment just made all of those elements click into place. I have learned the standard rules for grading garments and how to adapt these for dual size increments (S/M/L as oppose to UK 6-8-10). This is something that I really didn’t expect to have the chance to do as an undergraduate and I’m hoping that having knowledge in this area will make formulating my own garment size specifications from scratch much easier. I’m looking forward to putting these patterns and my Clo3D skills to the test next week when I simulate the base size (size S) and then begin to grade the patterns in line with my size specification using Gerber Accumark.
Avatars & 3D Virtual Prototyping 