Marvelous Designer tutorial PDF: How to make stitches

Marvelous Designer Tutorial PDF – How to Make Stitches for Clothes in MD

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Marvelous Designer Tutorial PDF How to Make Stitches

How to Create Stitches for Marvelous Designer Clothes Tutorial

Camille Kleinman is a Marvelous Designer expert & trainer.

She created the 1st and only, highly acclaimed Marvelous

Designer online course and workshops for 3D artists & studios.

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In this Marvelous Designer tutorial I'll show you how to overlay stitches onto your

clothes without leaving MD. You can also scale the stitches, change color of the

stitches, opacity etc.

I'll be using the default garment as an example clothing item.

To watch the video tutorial go here:

https://cgelves.com/free‐marvelous‐designer‐stitches‐tutorial‐for‐beginners/

Before you begin, you will need to either make your own stitches texture or

download our free Marvelous Designer stitches texture at:

https://cgelves.com/download‐free‐marvelous‐designer‐stitches‐effect‐for‐3d‐

clothes/

To create your own stitch designs, stitched text or curved stitches, download our

free Photoshop Stitches Brush Set here:

https://cgelves.com/free‐sewing‐stitch‐brushes‐set‐for‐photoshop/

Here are the kinds of stitch brushes you can get from us for free:


https://cgelves.com/download-free-marvelous-designer-stitches-effect-for-3d-clothes/

https://cgelves.com/free-sewing-stitch-brushes-set-for-photoshop/

https://cgelves.com/free-marvelous-designer-stitches-tutorial-for-beginners/



Now let’s create a straight line of stitches.

Step 1: Click the P icon (stands for 2D Graphic tool).

Step 2: A popup will open. Import the seamless stitch texture (it is very important

that it IS seamless). This stitch texture can be as short as one stitch or three

stitches, it doesn’t matter.



Step 3: As you can see our stitch texture is very short and we want it to go all

along the bottom of her shirt.

So let’s select the Pattern Transform tool and stretch the texture box.

Stretch the texture box to the end of your Marvelous Designer clothing pattern

(or slightly beyond if necessary).

(If you cannot use the Transform tool in your version of MD, then you can also

stretch the texture by going into the Property Editor in the right sidebar and

typing in a value in the width.)




As you can see, this will greatly distort the stitches texture. Not to worry! That will

be fixed in the next step.




Step 4: Now select the Texture Transform tool to scale the stitches texture down

from either the left or the right until the scale looks right.

See, now we have stitches running all along the bottom of the shirt pattern!

And of course, as with every texture in Marvelous Designer, you can change its

color and opacity as well in the Property Editor tab.

To create two lines of stitches for a double stitches effect, I do NOT recommend

that you copy and paste the stitches texture! While this works in MD and looks

fine in MD, once you export your 3D clothing model to render it in Octane or

keyshot, since the faces are overlapping you will get some very ugly and broken

up results.




The best way to create two lines of stitches is to load in a Marvelous Designer

stitches texture that is cropped tightly to the height without any extra empty

space over or beneath the stitches line.

Once you've loaded in your tightly cropped stitches texture, you can use the

Texture Transform tool once more to scale it up or down to change how much

space there is between the lines of stitches (this will of course also effect the

shape of the stitches).



Scale it until it looks right.




Here’s how you can use our free Photoshop stitch brushes to create any shaped

stitched design you want.

Step 1. Select your pen tool and draw out a shape. The shape can either be closed

or open, it doesn’t matter.




Once you have your path made, select your stitch brush you want to use, make

sure you have the right size and color settings. Then go to the ‘Paths’ tab and right

click on the work path. Select ‘Stroke Path…’

Step 2. Leave ‘Simulate Pressure’ turned off and click OK.



And here are your stitches running along your shape.




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