This projects asks "If this character wore a suit, what would it look like?”. Combining traditional hand-tailoring techniques with 3D clothing creation, I aim to demonstrate the importance of tailoring and textile knowledge in world-building for games.

As a bespoke tailor, I established a project framework that would showcase pattern creation skills across different styles of clothing, whilst also ensuring relevance to the gaming industry by designing for individualistic game-worlds.

Each game-world chosen represents a different tailoring style (with myself as the tailor!).



Tinker: Fallout 4 (vintage 50s)

Soldier: Horizon Zero Dawn (high-fashion)

Spy: James Bond (classic black-tie)

All garments are created for a custom Metahuman's measurements. I hand-drafted patterns to create bespoke jacket and trouser blocks as a base for each outfit.

Garments were created in Marvelous Designer and rendered in game-appropriate environments in Unreal Engine, utilising the LiveSync plugin for a streamlined pipeline. Additional CLO renders show garments in motion to demonstrate their real-world functionality.

For the purpose of this project I excluded ZBrush from the pipeline, choosing not to add accessories. Garments were created as low poly as possible without rigging them to the mesh, as this project primarily demonstrates digital garment construction and storytelling through fashion. If moving these into a game engine, I would use Marvelous’ EveryWear toolkit to weight-paint and rig garments to the base mesh, though I chose not to here in order to simulate garments as accurately as possible.

Tinker: Fallout 4

The Tinker outfit is designed for the Fallout 4 game-world, representing vintage 1950s tailoring. 

Inspired by Teddy Girls of the era who repurposed mens' clothing, the Metahuman wears an oversized mens' houndstooth jacket (buttoned traditionally on the right) with a velvet collar, straight cropped jeans, and a bow-tie diamond cut out shirt.