CLO Story

Jaden, a Ph.D. student of Computer Science, has a passion for cloth simulation technology. He develops the first prototype at school and is thrilled to see students having fun creating 3D garments with the program. Seeing how fun the program can be, Jaden decides to make it public so more people can enjoy it.

One of the very first users, a cosplay artist, thinks this could be a game changer in his community of cosplay artists, and suggests to launch a community.

Surprisingly, it gains enormous popularity from the community of over 2 million virtual cosplay artists. Realizing the market potential, creates a program specifically for this target group.

They found there were many crack versions, this creates concern over whether the program can even be profitable. That is when Weta Digital, the first client, reaches out. They have heard about CLO through the numerous artists in the CG community who are using the crack. Similarly, crack users talking about CLO in online forums leads major companies to find out who CLO are, later becoming partners.

They realize that it is their users, including the ones that use cracked versions, that make them grow. It all started with a single artist who saw the potential of, growing to a community that embraced them, and finally to the industry leaders who heard about them from these individual users. Since then, the core of the company mindset has always been being user-focused, truly thinking from the users’ perspective.

While CLO is growing in the CG/gaming industry, CLO also want to fulfil what they initially envisioned and develop a program specifically for the apparel industry. They meet with numerous designers and pattern makers to do Proof of Concepts for the program, and receive valuable feedback from them that helps CLO develop the tools that cater to fashion designers’ needs. They create CLO to be as accurate and realistic as possible so that the virtual garments created in CLO look and act exactly the same as the physical garments.

Leveraging 18 years of expertise in 3D garment simulation and virtual fitting, CLO develop more solutions.

And the journey continues. Until today CLO  has been used by experts in their each fields. The team is constantly working on new projects.