![]() You come from a technical background so I imagine that gives you a lot of confidence whereas I come from a fashion design background so I'm worried my patterns might look ok on the avatar and for presentation purposes but won't cut it when it comes to using them for mass production. ![]() My biggest doubts about being able to make it work as a Clo 3D freelancer is that I don't have enough technical knowledge. Right now I have already taken the leap and subscribed to the individual licence and am teaching myself from Youtube. ![]() But I see I might need it if I start using Substance 3D. I can't quite justify paying for the full suite quite yet when I use it so rarely and am making so little/basically nothing as a freelancer right now. I see, that is a good benefit having free access to the full Adobe Creative Suite. I’m currently hoping yo transition into 100% remote in the next year, and have no doubt that there will always be companies looking for 3D patterning users.Īnother amazing answer- thank you so much! I work on a large team of Technical Designers, and I can’t believe how bad most of them are with computers. This is they way the entire fashion industry is heading, and there is going to be a huge need in the industry for proficient users. Even if you don’t get any clients for the year that you have it, make the effort to become good at it (and save your projects to track your progress). I would still strongly suggest to take the leap and pick up the freelance license. These were unique situations, and definitely not needed to do my normally freelancing projects. I have used AI to accurately scale and trace a historical pattern as well as using LIDAR apps and blender for some avatar creation. I do use some other tools occasionally, but that is just for playing around. I get the full Adobe Creative Suite through my corporate gig (with two licenses, so I can download everything to my PC).Īs for other software, there is nothing I rely on outside of CLO3D. I am sure there is another way to do this (just googled it and there are tutorials for easy pattern formatting without AI), but I have the software and am skilled with it. I just used it’s 2D function for pattern corrections.Īs for my use in AI, I only really use it for formatting the patterns for print. After fully learning it, I never rendered anything with it after that (it took too much time and manipulation to justify the time usage). I had been working with Optitex, but that took insanely long to learn (especially 3D). It is a really easy sell (less time/cost/waste), and it also means I don’t have to manage as many physical samples.ĭo it for fun, practice recreating existing styles, watch the YouTube videos, and learn about tax write offs □ I didn’t bill them the correct time when I first started, and told them when to expect my next rendering (I also work full time and don’t always want to be working).Īs for the full time thing, regular Technical designer who just kept pushing 3D and showing the company a better way to work. I was using CLO3D for maybe a week before I was able to get my first contract. It’s faster and cheaper for them to pay me to put things together for them, and it didn’t take much convincing to pick up clients. Once we land 3D, I export the pattern as a pdf, open in AI and make printer ready, and then production takes it from there. I have asked that the clients mark up the rendering how they would like it changed, and resubmit that for me to revise. I used the tutorials online to teach myself CLO3D after getting a freelance license, and then showed some production houses how I could knock out first (and additional fit rounds) in 3D for them to show their clients. I work with production houses as a freelance artist, as well as hood a corporate gig full time.
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