Katy Callaway, Character Effects artist at Blur Studio, recommends Marvelous Designer for realistic clothing simulation in Far Cry 5.

Interview with Katy Callaway | FAR CRY 5 | Character Effects Artist in Blur Studio

Can you briefly describe yourself?

My name is Katy Callaway. I'm a Character Effects artist at Blur Studio. The modeling department at Blur Studio has always used Marvelous Designer as part of their workflow. While working on the Far Cry 5 trailer, we started looking into Marvelous Designer for the cloth simulation artists, as well.

Which features do you think is the most powerful advantage in the Marvelous Designer compared to other clothing simulation tool when you were using it for Far Cry 5?

With Marvelous Designer, you can build your garments, make quick easy changes, and get amazing, realistic wrinkles with ease! Because the wrinkles were created in a physically accurate way, they won't fight your simulation. Also, you can use real life tailoring techniques to tweak and alter your clothes. Poly-modeling or sculpting clothes is mostly guessing. Modeling clothes with Marvelous Designer is methodical and based on real-life measurements and processes.

Which features do you want to see from Marvelous Designer in the future version?

I would love to see better collision detection and control for the animation aspect of Marvelous Designer. Multiple complex layers tend to fight each other and the avatar.

Would you recommend Marvelous Designer to CG artist and why is that?

I would absolutely recommend Marvelous Designer to other CG artists! Marvelous Designer is very consistent and efficient for creating realistic clothing. The Marvelous Designer support team is also very fast and helpful, which is awesome when starting to learn a new software package.