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You’ll follow the Footwear Design Workflow template, which develops a molded mule.
Three parts side by side, labeled Side view, Colorways and Campaign: a photoreal taupe running shoe in side view; a two by two grid of the same shoe in yellow and mint, grey-blue with a red midsole, tan with a rust midsole, and teal and lime; and a campaign photo of a seated model in orange trousers and crochet gloves lacing up beige sneakers with green sculpted soles.

A side-view render, a colorway set of the same shoe, and a campaign image.

Open the template

It opens view-only. Click Duplicate file to edit for your own copy.
You need: a side-profile line sketch, upper material close-ups, a tread image and the season’s palette.

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Steps

  1. Upload the sketch, press Q and render it in one material and one color with Modify.
A line sketch of a clog-style mule connected to a Modify block with the prompt: Render Mule out of plastic. all one color, blue. Simple white background. Aspect Ratio Original, Mode Pro, Resolution 1K. Four glossy blue plastic mule renders are on the right.

Stage one: render the sketch in a single material and color.

  1. Explore one component at a time, ending prompts with “Keep the same art style and leave the rest of the image unchanged.”
  2. Push the form with a Variate block and a Form preset such as Massing (Form Variation).
  3. Box a component in red in Studio and prompt “Extract the image in the red box only. Remove all red marquees from the image.”
  4. Paint material zones in flat color, then connect texture close-ups and name each color in the prompt (Reference images).
  5. Make three-quarter, rear and bottom views with New view, then add tread from your tread image.
  6. Fix one area, such as a logo, with a selection in Studio.
  7. Build the colorway set from one final side view (Colorway set).
  8. Export as SVG with Trace mode set to Centerline for tech-pack line art (Export).
  9. Connect the shoe and a campaign photo to Modify, or show a full outfit with Try on.

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Good to know

  • Put the shoe last in a Modify block to keep its shape and aspect ratio.
  • Pro mode, high resolutions, colorway batches and SVG export use credits.

Colorway set

The full colorway recipe.

Apparel

Remix a garment’s material.

Explore variations

Variate and new views.

All workflows

Every workflow.