Creating Realistic Fabric & Clothing for Games

Marvelous Designer & ZBrush Workflow with Erika Lochs

Clothing and how cloth materials are made are an unsung part of character art, though they are just as important as studying human anatomy. Erika Lochs is a principal character artist who uses her real-world experience making clothes, and her love of historical clothing, to enhance the quality of her game characters’ attire. In this 3-hour workshop, she shares her complete workflow for creating a realistic Viking tunic with a hood, going in-depth into the theory of cloth, fibers, how they are made and interact, and how they can be damaged. 

You’ll learn the importance of having good references and see how good detail and storytelling will help you achieve the best results — without overcrowding your assets with alphas. Using professional techniques, Erika puts the theory into practice in Marvelous Designer, a software that, in her experience, gives the best results that are ready to take into ZBrush. From there, Erika demonstrates her ZBrush workflow for making adjustments to the assets and adding fine details, such as asymmetry, folds, and damage. 

As a bonus, Erika shows her texturing and rendering workflow using Substance Painter and Marmoset 4 to complete this comprehensive workshop.

Project files provided with this workshop include Erika’s fabric samples, Marvelous Designer presets, gathered references, her Marvelous Designer file, and her ZBrush file and render setup details.