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KOBE WHAT THE MAMBA
$135 AF1 | KOBE | FA25
REFERENCE
BRIEF
Help the footwear, graphic, and material designers by visualizing and iterating on their designs in 3D, with the intention of printing, rendering and creating a turntable animation of the final design for a KOBE exhibition room buildout.
IDEATION
BACKTAB
UPPER
EYELETS
3D UPPER IDEATION
FINAL DESIGN
STITCHES REMOVED
PROBLEM SOLVING
Creating Overlapping Scales
Before arriving at the final design, the graphic designer requested for the scales on the toe-tip and foxing to overlap each other with undercuts. The problem I faced was:
How can scales with undercuts be created using displacement maps that don't have that "overlapping" information?
THE SOLUTION: SCULPT MASKING
PULL
CREATE FLAT
MASK
EXTRUDE
In order to create overlapping scales with the most control, I decided to work on flat panels by using Blender's Textools Addon.
VIRTUAL MATERIALS
Blender With Substance 3D
Blender and the Substance 3D Addon for Blender was used to create the materials for the shoe. Materials were pulled straight from the Substance Library.
MATERIAL REFERENCE
Triangle Texture Map
Vegetal Leather
Fine Leather
Nylon Webbing
Sandblasted Gold
Natural Buffalo Leather
3D PRINTS FOR ROOM BUILDOUT
HELPING A TEAMMATE
Procedural Snake Lattice Body
The sister Kobe shoe my coworker was working on required a lattice snake body that wrapped around an AF1. The problem the team faced was:
How can we create an easily adjustable and arrayable snake body using a tile that my coworker created?
THE SOLUTION: CURVE MODIFIERS
*Snake head, basketball, snake shoe and tile assets provided by Jose Tejada
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