Clothing Tango FX

Clothing Simulation Inspired by couples tango dancing.

Moodboard of dress ideas, dancing suits and tie design I used.

All Assets were simulated by using ncloth in Maya. I masked the areas I wanted to keep in place and those meant to move as fabric. The Base male and female meshes were downloaded from Turbosquid and CG Trader websites. All the clothing I made myself in Marvelous Designer. 

I added materials to the clothes in Marvelous Designer creating materials like silk and tartan. After the clothes were created in Marvelous Designer I remeshed them in Zbrush. Brought them into Maya to UV unwrap and UV layout everything. Once this was done I added the textures using Substance Painter. 

How I got the clothes to move was done by first rigging the base female and male meshes using Human IK inside of Maya. I bought a few FBX dances from Mixamo for the dances I wanted to use. I matched the FBX rig to the rigged character I was using in the T pose. Then attached the clothing to the rigged character with the dances attached. This is when I started applying ncloth. Then I hid the original figures so just the clothes can be shown.