Topic: Additive Footwear Design: FDM and Resin
Date: January 4 – 5, 2025
Time: 15:00 – 19:00 GMT
Format: Online on Zoom
Duration: 2 Sessions (8 Hours)
Registration Deadline: January 3rd, 2025
Total Seats: 50 seats
Difficulty: Beginner-Intermediate
Language: English
Certificate: Yes
General Registration: 100 EUR
First 10 Seats: 85 EUR
Join free: with Full Access membership
Fee For Digital Members: 70 EUR (15% discount available only for Digital Members)
Organized By: PAACADEMY
Tutor: Kedar Benjamin
Recordings: Recordings will be available for all participants afterward indefinitely.
The workshop is available in a bundle with a discount including two other workshops.
For more details, visit the ‘Footwear Design Bundle’.
Introduction to Additive Footwear Design:
This workshop explores 3d printed footwear design using procedural tools, allowing students to create professional-level manufacturing-ready 3d models of the highest quality using Houdini and blender. Students will learn about a variety of manufacturing technologies and will learn to unlock their full potential.
The Scope of the Workshop:
This workshop will dive deep into Houdini and Blender to design 3d printable shoes that may be printed using FDM, SLS, MJF, SLA, DLP, and other methods. The main focus will be on FDM and SLA, but workflows will be applicable to most 3d printing technologies. Students will be encouraged to print out their creations either on their own or with a manufacturer, however this is not compulsory and any manufacturing costs are not included in the price and are dependent on the manufacturer and design.
Program:
Day 1:
- Introduction to 3d printed shoes
- Different 3d printing techniques applied to footwear
- FDM in detail
- SLA in detail
- Introduction to blender
- Making a last from your foot in blender
- Introduction to Houdini
- Procedural modeling of base shape
- Procedural textures
- Overhangs
Day 2:
- Resin constraints
- Changing upper thickness and making openings
- Latticing the midsole
- Creating the heel cushion
- Translating textures into geometry
- Outsole details
- Modelling supports
Software & Plugins:
Workshop Notes:
- Please ensure you have all the software installed before the workshop starts. Software installation is NOT a part of the workshop.
- Participants will be encouraged to print out their creations on their own or with a manufacturer. However, this is not compulsory, and any manufacturing costs are not included in the price and depend on the manufacturer and design.
Instructor:
Kedar Benjamin
Kedar Benjamin, aka Benjometry, is a computational designer, AI for footwear, and DFAM expert with a background in industrial design. Kedar has 5 years of experience with Houdini and 2 years of experience as an independent computational designer in the footwear industry. In 2022, he created the world’s first AI-designed 3D-printed shoe, Basilisk, printed by Zellerfeld. Kedar has taught workflows at CD: Next and with Designmorphine in the past, as well as courses elsewhere for additive footwear modelling
Important Notes:
- The “Additive Footwear Design: FDM and Resin” Studio workshop by PAACADEMY will start at 15:00 (GMT) on Saturday, January 3rd, 2025.
- Total sessions: 2 Sessions
- The teaching duration per session will be 4 hours.
- Students will have time for a break between teaching hours.
- Each session and the entire studio will be recorded, and videos will be available for participants just a day after the class for unlimited time.
- PAACADEMY will provide a certificate of attendance.
- The studio has limited seats. Tickets are non-transferable & non-refundable. Please read carefully before you register.
Topic: Additive Footwear Design: FDM and Resin
Date: January 4 – 5, 2025
Time: 15:00 – 19:00 GMT
Format: Online on Zoom
Duration: 2 Sessions (8 Hours)
Registration Deadline: January 3rd, 2025
Total Seats: 50 seats
Difficulty: Beginner-Intermediate
Language: English
Certificate: Yes
General Registration: 100 EUR
First 10 Seats: 85 EUR
Fee For Digital Members: 70 EUR (15% discount available only for Digital Members)
Organized By: PAACADEMY
Tutor: Kedar Benjamin
Recordings: Recordings will be available for all participants afterward indefinitely.
