HOW TO animate & clothe a MetaHuman using iClone 8 + Marvelous Designer 12 (step-by-step)

Step-by-step workflow tutorial to clothe an animated MetaHuman in Unreal Engine 5.1, with mocap via the ActorCore library and iClone, cloth simulation in Marvelous Designer 12, and cloth texturing in Quixel Mixer and Blender. 00:00 - Intro 00:24 - New UE5 scene with MetaHuman 00:41 - Into iClone 8 00:57 - Download MetaHuman Dummies for iClone 01:32 - Confirm MetaHuman Body Type 01:42 - Import Dummy into iClone 02:04 - Reallusion ActorCore Mocap Library 02:11 - Apply Animation to iClone Dummy 02:41 - Export Animation from iClone 03:02 - Import MetaHuman Animation into UE5 03:36 - Apply Animation to MetaHuman 05:12 - Create T-pose before Animation Start 06:56 - Bake T-Pose into Animation Sequence 07:46 - Prep Head & Feet for Export 08:45 - Check if Body Parts play in sync 09:02 - Export MetaHuman to Marvelous Designer 10:27 - Export Static T-pose to Marvelous Designer 11:34 - Into Marvelous Designer 12:22 - Retarget Draping for T-pose 13:22 - Create Fittiing Suit for Static T-pose 15:41 - Import Animated MetaHuman into MD 17:15 - Simulate clothing in Marvelous Designer 19:20 - UV Mapping in Marvelous Designer 21:24 - Export clothing OBJ for Texturing 22:20 - Export Alembic (cloth animation) 23:02 - Thick & Thin Cloth Comparison 24:43 - Import Alembic Animation into UE5 25:45 - Add Clothing Animation to Sequencer 26:56 - Quixel Mixer for custom Cloth Textures 27:48 - Setup Color IDs for Mixer using Blender 27:52 - TexTools Blender Addon 31:45 - Bake Color-IDs in Blender 32:20 - Assign Color-IDs in Quixel Mixer 34:11 - Export Textures from Quixel Mixer 34:34 - Import Textures into UE5 34:54 - Setting up material for clothing iin UE5 35:41 - Apply material to clothing in UE5 36:16 - Join our Discord 36:24 - End Result Animation Sequence __ Join our Discord for help __   / discord   __ LINKS __ iClone MetaHuman LiveLink Kit (Dummies) https://www.reallusion.com/iclone/liv... ActorCore Mocap Library https://actorcore.reallusion.com TexTools https://github.com/SavMartin/TexTools... Marvelous Designer https://www.marvelousdesigner.com Reallusion iClone https://www.reallusion.com/iclone #marvelousdesigner #iclone #actorcore #metahuman #ue5 #blender