CLO Virtual Fashion develops Marvelous Designer, a pattern-based 3D garment design and cloth-simulation application aimed at game, VFX and animation work, alongside CLO for fashion workflows. Artists ...

Traditionally, one of the weak points in Blender has been simulations, with even professional users of the free and open source computer graphics suite off-loading such tasks to programs like Houdini.

Researchers have demonstrated the Near-exhaustive Precomputation of Secondary Cloth Effects at SIGGRAPH 2013. A published research paper and a video are available detailing the findings. The approach ...

The elaborate costumes worn by Rapunzel, the heroine of Disney's "Tangled," are testament to the growing sophistication of cloth animation, but for art directors, who must tweak tens or hundreds of ...