TheBeals

Shoe Update

Progress on the shoe has been painfully slow, but my internship at Adidas is up at the end of the month, which means that I will no longer have a job which equals more time to work on the shoe. Here is an update of where I am at. So far I like how it’s coming along. It’s incredibly difficult not to get any lumpiness and to stick with a good edge flow without getting crazy dense in areas that have holes. The places where the laces go through the eyelits were by far the hardest to keep smooth, and I tried a couple different approaches, as you can see in the image, and eventually went with the high dense, not as pretty way that is nearest the toe of the shoe. It kept things perfectly smooth without any pinching or wobbliness, but I did take a hit on the poly count. *ouch* My tri count is at 144K right now and I haven’t hit the high detailed areas yet, nor have I added in the stitching :/

This detail shot of the shoe is maybe an inch across and 1/4 inch width and maybe a couple mm deep and is locate on the sole of the shoe.