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Marvelous Designer
Marvelous Designer creates, simulates, and exports 3D garments for games, film, VFX, avatars, and virtual production.
Marvelous Designer is desktop software for creating clothing from 2D patterns, fitting garments to avatars, simulating fabric behavior, testing poses, and exporting assets to production pipelines. It is used by fashion designers, character artists, game developers, film and VFX teams, and digital-avatar creators.
It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux Enterprise deployments, with integrations including FBX workflows, Unreal Engine, EveryWear, and Python scripting. Linux access is limited to Enterprise customers. A 14-day trial is available; the official pricing page rendered without prices during this review.
Features
- Create garments from 2D patterns and sewing data
- Simulate fabric, garment fit, folds, and draping
- Test garments on avatars and across character poses
- Export garments through FBX, USD, and ChaosCloth workflows
- Synchronize garment work with Unreal Engine using MD LiveSync 2
- Optimize garments for mobile and VR with EveryWear
- Create laces and draw garment concepts with the 3D Pencil
- Use Python scripting through the program's API reference
Use cases
- Design digital clothing for game and film characters
- Simulate garments before physical sampling
- Fit outfits to avatars for VR and virtual production
- Prepare cloth assets for Unreal Engine pipelines
- Create animation-ready garments for VFX and cinematics