New Marvelous Designer Book
In November 2016, I published the first and only book on Marvelous Designer. Many people asked me to publish an e-book in addition to the printed version. This was not practical because software books do…
New Marvelous Designer Class and Other Updates
Marvelous Designer Class I just released a new class called “Learn Marvelous Designer” on Fearless Makers Academy. This is the big, full-length class that I’ve been promising. It is geared to new and intermediate users….
3D Cloth Textures Part 3 – Creating Fabric in Blender
This is the 3rd video completing the 3D Cloth Textures series. This tutorial shows you how to use Blender to create very realistic fabric. Glitter Shader Fabric Sizing Worksheet Here are all the images you…
Marvelous Designer 7 New Features
Marvelous Designer version 7 was released on September 27th. As usual, they highlighted just a handful of changes, but I found many more. Here’s what I found: Flatten Topstitching Topstitch Object Zipper Configurator Modular Mode…
Marvelous Designer 7 Teaser Preview
Rosemary, over in our Marvelous Designer User Forum, just shared this link. We got big things coming in September. There six month release schedule should have been October, but I guess they are releasing early….
Marvelous Designer 6.5 & Fearless Makers Academy
No, I have not disappeared. I’ve just been super busy with all things summer. I’d like to announce Fearless Makers Academy. A learning system that I’ve created to teach classes on Marvelous Designer and other things….
3D Cloth Textures – Part 2
This is the second video in our multi-part series on 3D Cloth Textures. In this video we’re going to use Photoshop to create tiles from real-world images. I should warn you that I am not…
3D Cloth Textures – Part 1
Recently I was employed to create virtual fabric from images of real fabrics used in manufacturing. It is critical in this type of work that the rendered garments match what the customer will receive. The…
Book Available – Understanding Marvelous Designer
UPDATE! – The print book is no longer being sold, but we’ve replaced it with an online web-book. This is much better because it can be kept up-to-date. Sign up at – Understanding Marvelous Designer…
New Features in Marvelous Designer Version 6
Like many MD users, I’ve had the opportunity to download and work with the new version 6 beta. There are lots of new features and some surprising changes. Watch the video to see what I’ve…