AI and the Avant-Garde
brief: make a shoe using AI
Encapsulating the trends and my experiences of summer 2024
With the rise of AI, the ballet flat, orchid heels, athletics, and tech, I created a moodboard of these influences. 2024 is the Summer of the Olympics, balletcore, and AI in art
As an intern at adidas, athletics is the core of the product and I combined it with my interests of art, high fashion, and technology.
key influences: ballet, chunky shoe, kitten heel, straps, sculpture, buckles, robotic, technology
After creating a few sketches incorporating key features from buckles, chunky heel, kitten heel toe, and orchid cuff, I added the sketch into Vizcom to render a 3D shoe.
Sketch + Collage>> Vizcom
Sketch based renderings came out better because the collage based almost followed the idea too closely, especially in colors as seen in the orchid.
Tried rendering through a sketch and a collage
Collage Based renderings
Sketch based renderings
PHASE TWO: BRINGING IT TO LIFE
Blender
I exported the STL generated by Vizcom as a base for the next step, sculpting. Playing with various sculpt tools in Blender, I created the silver shoe to send to be 3D printed.
Magics - 3D Ready
The STL file had parts too thin to be 3D printed as they were less than .1 mm. With help from a 3D expert, we postprocessed the file in Magics using a Shrink Wrap to smooth the holes in the mesh making it ready to be printed.
The 3D Print
Material: Verowhite - UV cured Acrylic
Machine: Stratasys-J55
