This is a product feature with a little fashion pizazz, to highlight the benefits and features of Vionic's supportive insole technology. We dive into the live action footage, strip away the suede leather and other materials, to reveal the comfortable hero within.   

This workflow involved modeling the insole and boot, recreating the live action environment, and match move the live action camera to create the illusion of a seamless flow from reality to animation.

There is a very specific shape to the Vionic insole technology. Modeling the insole started with some simple tracing of the insole photography in four locations from the bottom up. We paid special attention to the details of the inner arch and heal support. The four splines were placed into a loft nurb and then modeled inward to close the whole. The insole was built animation ready keeping all quads and geo as uniform as possible.  

There were multiple attempts at creating a decent model using photogrammetry and unfortunately none of the results were worthy of a final model for production. It was fun to attempt it and learn a bit about the scanning process. 

It was not all a loss though as we used the scanned boot as a reference for modeling it in C4D and textured in Redshift3D