Technical Rain Jacket — William Ralston Daniel

Category	Hooded technical outerwear, menswear
Role	Design, patternmaking, 3D development, sample construction
Software	CLO3D — 2D pattern & 3D simulation
Shell fabric	Black 2.5-layer ripstop body; signal-red taffeta nylon side panels; reflective piping tape at the yoke
Hardware	Laminated zip + garage, hood cord lock, velcro cuff tab
Context	[Course project? Self-directed? Which term?]

Started from a thrifted 90s windbreaker — drop shoulder, boxy body, a stand collar that zips up past the chin. The red side panel read as the garment's signature from the first try-on, so the brief became simple: keep it, and sharpen everything else around it. Built for night-city rain, not a trailhead — utility, not costume.

Developed digitally first — pattern drafted and simulated in CLO3D, colourway and panel breaks resolved on the 3D avatar — then cut and sewn as a physical sample to validate the fit and the construction.

Aesthetic Research

Storm Shell

“Red side swoosh = the signature. Keep it, sharpen it.” — margin note, initial direction board

Early mood board exploring a nature/water-performance direction for the jacket — Early Direction — Nature / Performance [unconfirmed — read as a discarded first pass; verify with Will]

Five CLO3D flat colorway tests for the jacket front — Early Colorway Tests

Storm Shell aesthetic research board: thrifted windbreaker reference, front and back flats, hardware details, initial direction notes

Storm Shell shell fabrics, approximate Pantone matches, and mood references: neon rain, wet asphalt, 90s track archive

419 C
Black ripstop

186 C
Signal red

Cool Gray 9 C

877 C
Reflective tape

Approximate Pantone, matched to lab dips.

Original

Black + Signal Red

True to the thrift find.

Night Shift

Reflective Panels

Light up in headlights.

Signal

Cool Gray Body

Red stays loud.

Rain Room

Deep Navy

A neon cyan hit.

Process

Digital → Physical

Step 01

Pattern & 3D Simulation

Pattern pieces drafted flat and simulated on the avatar in CLO3D — hood, two-piece sleeve, front and back body with contrast side panels, cuff tabs and a centre-front placket. Panel breaks and seam placement were resolved digitally before any fabric was cut.

CLO3D workspace: 3D simulated jacket on the left, flat 2D pattern pieces on the right

Step 02

Colourway & Render

Material and colour tested on the simulated garment — black shell against red side panels and a red hood crown insert, carrying the accent from the hood down through the body seam. Re-rendered in a second environment pass to check how the colorway reads off-studio.

Render of the rain jacket in a garage/practice-space environment, front — Render — Environment, Front

Render of the rain jacket, back view, hood up — Render — Back / Hood Up

Render — Side

Render of the rain jacket, three-quarter view — Render — Three-Quarter

Step 03

Sewn Sample

Cut and constructed as a wearable sample. [Add a line on what changed from the digital pattern to the sewn version — fit adjustments, seam or hardware changes.]