Marvelous Designer — Tutorials

Process note: Marvelous Designer to MetaHuman — Considerations

Collected 19 September 2026.

Official

Title Provider Link
Marvelous Designer to MetaHuman: USD Garment Integration Workflow Marvelous Designer support https://support.marvelousdesigner.com/hc/en-us/articles/52699135975705-Marvelous-Designer-to-MetaHuman-USD-Garment-Integration-Workflow
CLO to MetaHuman: USD Garment Integration Workflow CLO support https://support.clo3d.com/hc/en-us/articles/53322960594969-CLO-to-MetaHuman-USD-Garment-Integration-Workflow
Tailoring for MetaHumans: CLO and Marvelous Designer to Unreal Engine (live demo) Epic / Marvelous Designer https://www.unrealengine.com/news/tailoring-for-metahumans-clo-and-marvelous-designer-to-unreal-engine-demo
Tailoring for MetaHumans (Marvelous Designer newsroom) Marvelous Designer https://www.marvelousdesigner.com/support/news/view/18b5b426d8be42da832d12cffec2dfa4

Community

Title Provider Type Link
Create Custom Clothes for MetaHumans 5.6 via LiveSync (MD + UE 5.6) Epic Dev Community Community tutorial https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/V1m5/fab-create-custom-clothes-for-metahumans-5-6-via-livesync-marvelous-designer-and-unreal-engine-5-6
Create Parametric Clothes for MetaHumans in 5.6 YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InknBH1e_i0
Creating Clothes for MetaHumans in 5.6 (beginner) YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAaIvyG2tE8
Workman's Guide to MetaHuman Outfits for Unreal Engine Udemy Paid course https://www.udemy.com/course/workmans-guide-to-metahuman-outfits-for-unreal-engine/
Learn Realistic Character Creation with ZBrush, MetaHuman and Marvelous Designer 80.lv Course announcement https://80.lv/articles/learn-realistic-character-creation-with-zbrush-metahuman-marvelous-designer

Getting started (official)

Title Provider Link
Quick Start 0–5: Beginner Stream, Windows and Modes, View Control, Files, Pattern Making, Arrangement Marvelous Designer https://support.marvelousdesigner.com/hc/en-us/articles/47358163107737
2D Pattern Editing, parts 1–5 Marvelous Designer https://support.marvelousdesigner.com/hc/en-us/articles/47358167839769
Pleats Marvelous Designer https://support.marvelousdesigner.com/hc/en-us/articles/47358231399449
Suit: Pants, Shirt, Jacket and Layering Marvelous Designer https://support.marvelousdesigner.com/hc/en-us/articles/47358198497305
MetaHuman DNA Importer Marvelous Designer https://support.marvelousdesigner.com/hc/en-us/articles/51752244831897-MetaHuman-DNA-Importer
Manual Marvelous Designer https://support.marvelousdesigner.com/hc/en-us/categories/51985515993625-Manual
YouTube channel Marvelous Designer https://www.youtube.com/@Marvelousdesigner
Building an Outfit Asset (5.8) Epic https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/building-an-outfit-asset-in-unreal-engine
Tailoring Your Own Wardrobe Items Epic https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/metahuman/tailoring-your-own-wardrobe-items
Chaos Cloth Updates 5.6 · Outfit Asset Resizing Addendum · Chaos Cloth Updates 5.7 Epic (community tutorials) https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/LZZo/unreal-engine-epic-games-store-chaos-cloth-updates-5-6 · https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/9Xjd/unreal-engine-chaos-cloth-outfit-asset-resizing-addendum · https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/tutorial-chaos-cloth-updates-5-7/2674293

More community courses (Gnomon, Udemy, YouTube playlists) are listed in Tutorial — Getting Started with Marvelous Designer.

Local tutorials (Augmented Traveler)

Tutorial Covers Owner
Tutorial — Getting Started with Marvelous Designer What MD does for us; seat set-up and licence; the official videos in order; a first gauged skirt; the path through our tutorials Everyone new to MD
Tutorial — MetaHuman Avatar into Marvelous Designer The figure's body as the MD avatar (DNA importer or Combined Skeletal Mesh); corset/understructure variant; measurements Cloth artist
Tutorial — Drafting a Period Garment from a Historical Pattern Choosing evidence (Arnold, Waugh, reproduction patterns, NHA garments); tracing, grading, sewing, fitting; period fabrics Costume designer, cloth artist
Tutorial — Period Layers, Hoops and Skirts Simulate the outside, fake the inside: corsets, hoops, bustles as frozen or skinned colliders; Chaos Cloth painting and per-surface choices Cloth artist, technical animator
Tutorial — Marvelous Designer Garment to MetaHuman Outfit USD export → Cloth Asset (Dataflow) → Outfit Asset → Wardrobe Item → MetaHuman Creator; LiveSync; hand-off checks Cloth artist

Related: small rigid pieces are skinned instead: Tutorial — Skinning Garments and Props to a MetaHuman · body correctives under tailoring: Tutorial — Pose Editor Correctives for Period Tailoring.

Every Marvelous Designer tutorial the project needs

Status: ✅ local tutorial written · 🔗 an external tutorial is enough · ✏️ local tutorial to write later.

Need Status Where
MD basics (interface, pattern, sew, arrange, simulate) ✅ Tutorial — Getting Started with Marvelous Designer + official Quick Start
MetaHuman body as avatar ✅ Tutorial — MetaHuman Avatar into Marvelous Designer
Period pattern to MD ✅ Tutorial — Drafting a Period Garment from a Historical Pattern
Understructure, hoops, bustles, heavy skirts ✅ Tutorial — Period Layers, Hoops and Skirts
Garment to MetaHuman outfit ✅ Tutorial — Marvelous Designer Garment to MetaHuman Outfit
Men's tailoring (frock coat, waistcoat, trousers) for whaling captains and Douglass-era figures 🔗 Official "Suit" tutorial + Laughing Moon #109 pattern; write a local tutorial after the first men's costume ✏️
Fabric library from real swatches ✏️ After the costume designer's swatch session
Garment textures and trims in Unreal (materials, buttons, lace) ✏️ With the first costume look-dev

Still to research