The Spark
For a senior thesis confronting 'what's real anymore?', design couture that fuses the natural and the artificial — a gown overtaken by a forest that never grew.
In Process
Charcoal concept art and a draped muslin/branch-applique mockup set the silhouette before any 3D work began.
The Craft
Meshy.ai generated the branch/forest geometry from image + text prompts ('Thorned Elegance', 'Rooted Summit'); outputs were cleaned in Blender/Rhino before printing.
Outcome
WON the Devil Wears Prada 2 Design Competition (20th Century Studios · Who What Wear · Disney). Splitting flexible TPU (bodice) from rigid PLA (skirt) let one 3D-printed motif behave like fabric where it needed to.
Process — 16 frames
