Arts
As the worlds of animation, CGI and design collide, new 3D digital design tools are allowing hyper-real design of both models and clothing. These tools can avoid the need for toxic and wasteful physical clothing prototyping and can allow presentation of fashion with a far reduced environmental impact, but how will these tools affect the way we design, experience and consume fashion in the near and distant future? Which tools are being used and by which brands?Panellists:Cameron-James Wilson, Photographer, Visual artist and Creator of @shudu.gramCameron-James created the “world's first digital supermodel”, Shudu. He has since launched The Diigitals, an all digital modelling agency, whose models recently starred in a ground-breaking Balmain campaign.Kerry Murphy, Founder, Digital Fashion House, The FabricantThe Fabricant is a digital fashion design and animation start-up. Combining talents from fashion and animation industries, they produce hyper-realistic fashion experiences.Amber Jae Slooten, Digital fashion designer and Co-Founder/Creative Director, The Fabricant"I dress digital entities. I found a way to express myself with endless materials, no waste and unlimited movements, but I haven’t actually “sewn” any clothes since 2014. I use 3D modelling techniques, motion capture suits to capture movement, 3D scanners to capture bodies and combine them all in the virtual realm. Our digital consciousness already exists, I just want to dress it."Chair:Brooke Roberts-Islam, Founder, Techstyler; Co-Director, BRIABrooke is a digital knitwear designer who has over a decade of experience as a diagnostic radiographer in the NHS. She is Co-director of the Brooke Roberts Innovation Agency (BRIA) who create sustainable and technical material collaborations, products and installations with brands from both the fashion and technology sectors, directly combining her knowledge of the latest developments in the fashion-technology sector with her cross-discipline approach to developing new materials.