Grasshopper for Footwear
Learn the basics of doing parametric generative design for footwear, so you can automate design processes and create complex structures and textures that you could not make any other way.
This course is always open for registration. You can start any time you like. If you have any questions, you can post them on the course community page or request a live session with your instructor.
Please note: you will need to have finished our Rhino course - or have proven prior knowledge of Rhino - before you can enter this course!
This course is always open for registration. You can start any time you like. If you have any questions, you can post them on the course community page or request a live session with your instructor.
Please note: you will need to have finished our Rhino course - or have proven prior knowledge of Rhino - before you can enter this course!
What is Grasshopper and why would I want to learn that?
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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8 modules
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30 video classes (> 8 hrs)
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5 recorded webinars (> 8 hrs)
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multiple downloadable grasshopper definitions per module
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2 ebooks
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optional one-on-one live sessions
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1 certification
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access for 12 months
Course Format
This course consist of 4 modules with short videos that you can follow on your own, as well as 5 longer webinars of about 2 hours each, which dig deeper into certain algorithms. You receive all the definitions that Lorenzo is creating in the course. The idea is that you will recreate them by yourself and play around with them.
This course covers several basic to intermediate operations in Grasshopper that are specifically relevant to footwear designers. After this course you will be able to make lattice and voronoid structures, for instance for midsoles, and you will have a general understanding of how Grasshopper could automate custom footwear design.
Grasshopper is a steep learning curve, so we encourage you to ask questions on the course community page. You can also request an optional live class with Lorenzo if you have several questions that you would like to have answered.
This course covers several basic to intermediate operations in Grasshopper that are specifically relevant to footwear designers. After this course you will be able to make lattice and voronoid structures, for instance for midsoles, and you will have a general understanding of how Grasshopper could automate custom footwear design.
Grasshopper is a steep learning curve, so we encourage you to ask questions on the course community page. You can also request an optional live class with Lorenzo if you have several questions that you would like to have answered.
You will receive a certificate of completion of the course once you have sent in your completed exercises. Since this is a course for professionals, you will not receive any academic credits for it though.
Course Audience
This course is meant for footwear designers and developers that want to further their skills in parametric, generative design and have already finished our 3D Footwear Modeling in Rhino course. If you did not follow that course, but already learned Rhino somewhere else, then please email us before you enroll, so we can verify that you have the right entry level for this course. You should basically be able to model a full shoe in Rhino before you enter this course.
Requirements
For this course you will have to have finished our 3D Footwear Modeling in Rhino course or have learnt Rhino somewhere else.
We also assume you have Rhino 7 (or 6) installed, so Grasshopper is fully integrated. You can download a free trial for 90 days, which should have you covered for both our 3D Footwear Modeling in Rhino course as well as this Grasshopper course.
Grasshopper works on both PC and Mac, however, many plugins that are very useful in Grasshopper are not available for Mac. Generally, if you want to really specialize in 3D design and generative design, we advise Mac users to switch to PC. Even Lorenzo has had to do that recently; it is not a bad as you think ;-)
We also assume you have Rhino 7 (or 6) installed, so Grasshopper is fully integrated. You can download a free trial for 90 days, which should have you covered for both our 3D Footwear Modeling in Rhino course as well as this Grasshopper course.
Grasshopper works on both PC and Mac, however, many plugins that are very useful in Grasshopper are not available for Mac. Generally, if you want to really specialize in 3D design and generative design, we advise Mac users to switch to PC. Even Lorenzo has had to do that recently; it is not a bad as you think ;-)
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Lorenzo Masini
Industrial product designer
The course is developed and taught by Lorenzo Masini who has also been teaching the offline courses in Rhino and Grasshopper for The Footwearists for the past 5 years. Lorenzo is an independent product designer based in Florence, Italy, working in numerous roles such as product, exhibition and interior design, product engineering and idea creation.
Because of this broad experience in all kinds of computational design and 3D design, he was asked by SLEM - the institute from which The Footwearists were born - to teach 3D design specifically for footwear, which he has been doing for them ever since. With utmost patience he helps students navigate through any software easily, focusing on what they really need, and helping them to understand how to solve digital design challenges in multiple ways.
When Lorenzo is not designing, he is rapping as part of Cronofillers, a group of talented Italian rappers that comment on the state of our society. Lorenzo just finished a post graduate course in Advanced Robotics in Barcelona, since he is aiming to bring back high-tech manufacturing of design to Italy. He is based in Florence.
Because of this broad experience in all kinds of computational design and 3D design, he was asked by SLEM - the institute from which The Footwearists were born - to teach 3D design specifically for footwear, which he has been doing for them ever since. With utmost patience he helps students navigate through any software easily, focusing on what they really need, and helping them to understand how to solve digital design challenges in multiple ways.
When Lorenzo is not designing, he is rapping as part of Cronofillers, a group of talented Italian rappers that comment on the state of our society. Lorenzo just finished a post graduate course in Advanced Robotics in Barcelona, since he is aiming to bring back high-tech manufacturing of design to Italy. He is based in Florence.
WHAT OUR STUDENTS ARE SAYING
I took 3 online courses at Footwearology: "Making: The Future of Footwear", 3D Footwear Design in Rhino and Grasshopper for Footwear.
I think the most valuable thing is the Footwearology community: here you find people from all over the world and they have different backgrounds and knowledge. So when I have a question about footwear, once I post this to the community, not only Footwearology teachers, but also other participants, who have a different background, will answer and offer worthful information to me.
I think the most valuable thing is the Footwearology community: here you find people from all over the world and they have different backgrounds and knowledge. So when I have a question about footwear, once I post this to the community, not only Footwearology teachers, but also other participants, who have a different background, will answer and offer worthful information to me.
The education program you have is second to none. Wish I could take it all in. I loved the Grasshopper course in NYC, thanks so much to you and Lorenzo!
Senior Manager Virtual Product Creation at Reebok
USA
USA
I took almost all courses of Footwearology in order to gather the knowledge I need to build my business in performance footwear that is made to size, using automated design and manufacturing systems.
For instance, Professional Sole Design gave me the background as to where the industry is coming from, whereas the Grasshopper class is offering me a way to automate everything that is going on. So I can now automate my designs for change, which is very important to be able to fit people's feet.
For instance, Professional Sole Design gave me the background as to where the industry is coming from, whereas the Grasshopper class is offering me a way to automate everything that is going on. So I can now automate my designs for change, which is very important to be able to fit people's feet.
Carol McDonald
OWNER OF GNEISS CONCEPTS and Co-Chair, 3D Body Processing at IEEE Standards Association
usa
OWNER OF GNEISS CONCEPTS and Co-Chair, 3D Body Processing at IEEE Standards Association
usa
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Course Contents
EXAMPLE OF A CLASS
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Each class is split in short sections, so you can easily find specific commands that you want to review again. In this example you see how you can make a simple algorithm to create a 3D Matrix. It illustrates very well the way of working in Grasshopper, as well as what you can do with it.
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Besides teaching, we do research and consulting, focusing on redesigning the entire footwear supply chain by directly connecting technology suppliers, creatives and social media platforms.
