Course – Victorian Costume by Vadim Meshcherekov

This course is a full production walkthrough for creating a game-ready Victorian costume. You’ll follow along as Vadim builds the entire outfit from scratch, starting with cloth simulation in Marvelous Designer, then moving through topology, sculpting, UVs, baking, texturing, and finally rendering in Marmoset Toolbag 5. It’s 30+ hours of real-time footage with English subtitles, and you get every project file along the way.

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Create a game-ready Victorian costume from start to finish
• Simulate realistic cloth and leather in Marvelous Designer and Clo3D
• Retopologize simulated cloth into clean quad topology
• Sculpt high-poly details in ZBrush
• Model belts, accessories, shoes, and props in Maya
• UV unwrap and bake maps for game assets
• Texture the full costume in Substance Painter
• Set up a final presentation render in Marmoset Toolbag 5

✅ Requirements

• Skills: Basic understanding of 3D modeling and navigation in Maya or similar software
• Tools: 3-button mouse, drawing tablet recommended for sculpting
• Hardware: Minimum 16GB RAM, dedicated GPU with 4GB VRAM

📝 Description

This isn’t a quick overview — it’s a full production run. Vadim takes you through every step of building a Victorian costume that’s ready for games. You’ll start in Marvelous Designer, where you’ll learn how to create realistic cloth patterns and simulate natural folds. From there, you’ll take that simulated mesh into Maya and retopologize it into clean quad topology that actually works for animation and game engines.

The modeling continues with belts, accessories,, and even a lamp prop. Each piece gets the same attention: proper edge flow, clean geometry, and logical construction. Then it’s into ZBrush for high-poly sculpting, where you’ll add the fine details that make the costume feel lived-in and authentic.

The second half of the course focuses on the technical pipeline. You’ll UV unwrap everything, bake your high-poly details onto the game mesh, and then texture the full costume in Substance Painter. The module covers rendering in Marmoset Toolbag 5, where you’ll set up lighting and materials to present your work like a professional portfolio piece.

Every project file is included — the Marvelous project, Maya scene, ZBrush project, Substance Painter file, Marmoset scene, and the final FBX mesh. You can follow along exactly or jump straight to the stage you need.

🧑‍🎓 Who this course is for

• Character artists who want to add realistic cloth simulation to their workflow
• Game artists looking to build a complete costume asset from scratch
• 3D generalists who want to see a full production pipeline in action
• Anyone interested in Victorian-era character design and props

🧑‍🏫 About the Author

Vadim Meshcherekov is a professional 3D character artist with years of experience in the game industry. He specializes in creating detailed, game-ready characters and costumes, with a strong focus on cloth simulation and hard-surface modeling. His workflow combines Marvelous Designer, ZBrush, Maya, and Substance Painter to produce assets that meet modern production standards. This course reflects his practical, no-nonsense approach to asset creation.

🏁 Final Result

By the end of this course, you’ll have a complete, game-ready Victorian costume with 4K textures, clean quad topology, and a professional portfolio render. The project files include the final FBX mesh, so you can inspect every part of the asset and use it as a reference for own work.