Class Lab of Virtual Environments for Fashion I

The curricular unit aims to provide the students with skills applied to fashion product visualization in virtual environments, through the domain of the production processes present in this type of projects: work methodologies, project organization, and the method able to design 3D garments based on 2D digital patterns with efficiency and precision, complementing in this way the creation of 2D content for application in 3D environment.

1. Introduction to fashion virtual environments: Theoretical and practical notions for fashion product presentation
2. Integration of 2D contents in virtual environments: techniques and processes of integration in 3D vector objects software
3. Introduction and Fundamentals of 3D software
4. Introduction to 2D digital pattern-making development with 3D software: Creating base patterns, transforming patterns, Dressing garments in avatar
5. Development of 3D virtual clothing applied to fashion design and production: Definition/characterization of the virtual avatar, measurements of avatar and garments, virtual fabrics (creating textures and applying patterns), virtual trims (zipper, buttons, thread color, etc.)
6. Project development: Fashion product presentation, author clothing in 3D/virtual environments

This is a theoretical-practical curricular unit that combines expositive interventions of the programmatic contents with the elaboration of exercises in creation software and virtual environments. Throughout the semester will be developed two practical projects with respective follow-up and presentation in class.

Harris, C., (2017). The Fundamentals of Digital Fashion Marketing. Bloomsbury Academic. 

Iarocheski, L. (2021). Times New Fashion: Upgrading the Fashion Industry. Independently published.

Quinn, B. (2012). Fashion Futures. Merrell.

Paul, C. (2015). Digital Art. Thames & Hudson world of part.