Online CLO3d and Blender Fashion Design Course
Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design
Applications start now, enroll before the places run out!
Most of the fashion companies are looking now for designers prepared to work in 3D programs.
This course will promote your applications for fashion jobs or will allow you to start your own brand.
The best 3D designs will be presented at Cracow Fashion Week 2025
BASIC INFORMATION
- Start: September 12, 2024, Thursday.
- Evening Online Version – 6 p.m. Central European Time
- 3 months: September, October, November.
- Classes held in English.
- 66 school hours (45 min a school hour), Mondays and Thursdays.
- Live classes on ZOOM. Registered.
- Limited number of students – only 14 places.
- No former experience in 3D is necessary.
- Direct contact with your teacher.
- Access to WhatsApp group to share your progress, interact and work together.
COURSE MAIN TOPICS
PART 1, 33 hours
CLO3d BASICS, AVATARS, PATTERNS, SIMULATION, HARWARE and TOOLS
PART 2, 33 hours
FABRIC CREATION, MODULAR GARMENT IN CLO 3d, CAPSULE COLLECTION, PORTFOLIO
HOW WILL THIS COURSE CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SUCCESS?
You will move your skills to a higher level with 3D knowledge
You will learn different 3D programs to choose for your work in fashion design
You will learn how to use CLO3D, Blender, Texture development, Animation, and digital Pattern Making
You will be able to create virtual environments and objects
You will learn the terminology for communication in 3D fashion world
You will reach for extra income by selling your designs converted into NFTs
You will create your portfolio in 3D
You will become efficient in 3D fashion design
WHO MAY ATTEND THIS COURSE?
*This course is for fashion students, fashion designers, stylists, pattern makers, and anybody willing to learn 3D. No former experience in 3D is necessary
* With each module you will learn a new skill so that your ability to create 3D designs will develop easily
*The new skills and knowledge will add to your technical experience and open new possibilities for you.
ADD YOUR CLO3D FASHION DESIGN EXCELLENCE CERTIFICATE TO YOUR CV.
Your certificate will include:
– Proficiency in 3D fashion skills
– Proficiency and completion of Modules
– Proficiency and completion of Assignments
LECTURERS
Igor Kovacevic
Igor lives in Düsseldorf as a digital fashion designer and creative projects lead with a lot of experience in international projects in Europe and Asia. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion and Textile Design from the Faculty of Textile Technology in Croatia. He worked with Artificial Intelligence for the Fashion Industry in a global working environment and does a lot of creative design work that includes using industry standard 2D and 3D software, as well as generative Artificial Intelligence.
Rafal Idczak
Graduate and lecturer at the Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design in the field of computer graphics for fashion students, computer programs, video editing and artistic photography.
Artist with a diploma in photography and artistic ceramics, dealing with visual arts in the broadest sense. Computer graphic designer involved in retouching, vector design, video editing, 3D graphics, UI/UX design.
REQUIREMENTS
1. Computers or Laptops – Windows or Mac and three-button mouse are
required for this course. Unfortunately, iPad and mobile phones, are not suitable for this course – please refer here for CLO3D requirements:
https://support.clo3d.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000307168-CLO-system-requir
ements-July-2020-?page=2#.
2. Basic computer skills, basic knowledge of clothes construction, and basics of CLO 3D that could be learned in Part 1 of this course.
PRICING
- Registration fee 150 Euro – refundable only when the course doesn’t start
- Price – 990 EUR:
1st installment 330 Euro by 30th August
2nd installment 330 Euro by 10th October
3rd installment 330 Euro by 10th November
ACCESS TO THE CLO3D PLATFORM
You will need also access to the CLO3D platform
-CLO3D pricing for students:
1st month for free + 25$ a month for the next 2 months
-CLO3D pricing for nonstudents:
1st month for free + 50$ a month for the next 2 months
https://support.clo3d.com/hc/en-us/articles/115013366988-Does-CLO-offer-student-discounts-
HOW TO ENROLL
- Sign up for the course by email: kursy@ksa.edu.pl
- In the title of the message, please include the name of the course.
- In the mail please include your name and telephone number (obligatory).
- In the return message you will receive the account number for payment of registration fee.
- Only payment of the registration fee reserves a place.
- For more information call: 12 656 17 26 or WhatsApp +48534116756
DETAILED COURSE DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR – IGOR KOVACEVIC
PART 1
Technical introduction
Lecturer Rafał Idczak
It is expected that
students will not learn these basic elements in theory (only), but through interesting, various
and interactive exercises where students learn by practicing.
CLO basic
1th Meeting, 12 September, Thursday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Interface
How to save a project in CLO
Importing and exporting options
How to navigate within CLO 3D
Keyboard Shortcuts (some basic ones)
Avatars
2nd Meeting, 16 September, Monday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Adding and hiding avatars
Changing avatars’ size, appearance and pose
How to create and save your custom avatars
Patterns
3rd Meeting, 19 September, Thursday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Creating and editing patterns, pattern drafting
Polygon, Rectangle, Ellipse, Spiral
Internal Polygon, Rectangle, Ellipse and Dart
Scaling, transforming and moving patterns in 2D and in 3D
Hiding, deactivating and freezing patterns
Sewing
4th Meeting, 23 September, Monday, hours 6-20.15 pm
All types of sewing
Everything about sewing
Materials and Fabrics
5th Meeting, 26 September, Thursday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Adding and deleting materials
Types of Materials
Property Editor of Materials
How to change material of a pattern/garment
Simulation
6th Meeting, 30 September, Monday, hours 6-20.15 pm
How to simulate (three options)
How to modify simulated garments
Maybe ‘tie a knot’ practice
Dressing up the Avatar
7th Meeting, 4 October, Thursday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Using option ‘layers’ to dress up the avatar in multiple layers
Modifying patterns/garments
8th Meeting, 7 October, Monday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Strengthen and solidify
How to use pins, tacks and steam
Harware and Tools
9th Meeting, 10 October, Thursday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Zip
Buttons
Property Editor
Right-Click
10th Meeting, 14 October, Monday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Copy/Paste and Symmetric Pattern
Change Length
Offset
Deactivate, Freeze and Hide
Strengthen and Solidify
Right-Click
11th Meeting, 17 October, Thursday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Copy/Paste and Symmetric Pattern
Change Length
Offset
Deactivate, Freeze and Hide
Strengthen and Solidify
PART 2
CREATIVE PROJECTS, BRANDING AND PORTFOLIO
Introduction
1th Meeting, 21 October, Monday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Introduction to the course, methods and schedule
Reflection time: Group discussion
WORKSHOP 1 Digital fabric creation
Assignment in Avatar Design
Branding
2nd Meeting, 24 October, Thursday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Creativity, Inspiration, Branding and Stories in Fashion
Learning from real examples from the Fashion Industry
Assignment in Brand Stories
1-on-1
3rd Meeting, 28 October, Monday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Private 1-o 2 Octobern-1 consultation with the Lecturer with each student separately which results in personalised approach during the whole duration of the course
Project Garment
4th Meeting, 4 November, Monday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Project T-Shirt
Modular garments in CLO 3D
WORKSHOP 2 Digital creation of elements for fashion branding in 3D and 2D
Reflection time: QnA with the Lecturer
Assignment in using 2D and 3D
Artificial intelligence
5th Meeting, 7 November, Thursday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Artificial Intelligence in the Creative Process
WORKSHOP 3 Using Ai in Digital Fashion Creation
Assignment in Collection Creation
Project presentation
6th Meeting, 14 November, Thursday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Each student presents their projects and gets feedback from other students and the lecturer Igor in real time on how to improve their work
Collection creation 1
7th Meeting, 18 November, Monday, hours 6-20.15 pm
What makes a collection?
WORKSHOP 4 Combining traditional and digital
Reflection time: Group discussion
Collection creation 2
8th Meeting, 21 November, Thursday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Capsule collection
Digital clothes creation with the lecturer Igor in real time
Portfolio
9th Meeting, 25 November, Monday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Do you have a portfolio?
WORKSHOP 5: Digital Bodies
How to adapt Portfolio for digital world
Portfolio presentation
10th Meeting, 28 November, Thursday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Peer Review
Portfolio Presentation
Finishing the course with course evaluation
Portfolio presentation c.d.
11th Meeting, 2 December, Monday, hours 6-20.15 pm
Peer Review
Portfolio Presentation
Finishing the course with course evaluation
+ up to 10% (3h) only if necessary for the students to successfully finish the course,
happening in the next 10 working days from the day of finishing 30th hour of the course
QUALITY YOU GET (PART 2 OF THE COURSE):
- Interactive lessons incl. real time creation in workshops + assignments
- Reflection time in a form of Q&A session, presentations and peer reviews
- Feedback in real time from me and other students in the creation process
- This is NOT prerecorded course, but practical real time working with other students and lecturer, where you will also have the opportunity to consult 1-on-1 with the lecturer and get personalised approach
- additional lectures if you need more time or want to do something creative or even fun what we didn’t do during the course, choice is in your hands (Unit 11, see below)
- INSIGHTS and KNOWLEDGE necessary for today and the future of developing (digital) fashion industry and job market
- SKILLS necessary for working simultaneously and in a continuous flow between software in digital fashion creation processes in 2D and 3D
- Understanding and using Artificial Intelligence for creative work
- Using 2D and 3D software in digital fashion creation
- How to brand your digital brand!
WHAT WILL YOU HAVE BY FINISHING (PART 2 OF) THE COURSE?
PORTFOLIO (adapted to be posted on social media and printed)
- Moodboard/Storyboard – min. 1, up to 2+ pages
- Min. of 1 fabric design that is ready to be printed by printing standards on textiles
- Garment presentations in a 3D environment with your own textile and graphics madein 2D and 3D, may be useful for print-on demand and/or T-Shirt market (min. 1 – 2pages)
- Designs made with the help of Artificial Intelligence
- Digital Capsule Collection of 1 – 2+ outfits presented as images for portfolio and social media
- One of a kind experience where you will become one of the pioneers in the digitalfashion industry!s
Please note that this course is beginner to intermediate level.
