Now this is the kind of design a Vocaloid singer or Zenless Zone Zero character would wear. These chunky sneakers with their oversized soles would look great on someone who can jump high and dash around at incredible speeds, and the coolest part is that the suspension actually works.

3D Artist sou modeled the shoes in Maya, starting with a high-poly model before carefully retopologizing and baking it to keep the final mesh under 10,000 polygons. "Since I modeled it symmetrically and then applied deformations using a lattice, most of the UVs are overlapped, allowing everything to fit into a single 1K texture", commented the artist.

For shading, they used lilToon, a lightweight toon shader for Unity that's widely used for VRChat. Since sou specializes in VRChat avatars and accessories, these sneakers will likely become available for people to add to their own avatars.

In the meantime, you can check out some of sou's other products and projects: they've fully set up a workspace inside VRChat and made a functional phone that you can actually use in-game:

Looking for more VRChat content? Get this custom lilToon shader with underwater effects or leg assets by Aikawa and misettei:

You might also be interested in Vully's method of simulating liquid effects without shaders and KamiPita, a hair adjustment tool:

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