3D Fashion Deep Dive 10: Experts in the Field
Innovators to Follow (and Learn From)
If you want to understand where 3D fashion is headed, don’t just look at the tools. Look at the people.
Because it’s not just CLO or Browzwear or Style3D that push this space forward..it’s the designers, educators, and artists using them in public, sharing what works, breaking down their process, and showing the rest of us what’s possible.
This deep dive is a roundup of exactly that: the people worth following, the tutorials worth watching, and the events where you can actually meet them.
If you’re a 3D artist exploring fashion, these are the folks who will teach you more than any software manual ever could.
Artists to Follow
Before I begin…if there are any brilliant people that I missed, please let me know!
This isn’t meant to be a final list but a jumping off point so please let me know who should be added.
Eugene Golovanchuk (Skeeva)
Stephy Fung
Jon Sánchez (slamthings)
Anna Liedtke (Aschno)
Jakub Wolf (Taskin)
Afsha Iragorri
Asher Levine
Cameron-James Wilson
People Shaping the Industry
These are the folks worth following if you want to understand where 3D fashion design is headed. These are the brilliant thought-leaders in the industry at the forefront of the technology.
Jade Wei - LinkedIn
Afsha Iragorri - LinkedIn
Sylwia Szymczyk - LinkedIn
Anna Violette - LinkedIn (YouTube Tutorials)
Angela Holm - LinkedIn
Cristina Souto Caviglia - LinkedIn
Stefka de Ruiter - LinkedIn
Events
This space moves fast. The tools evolve, the workflows shift, and the people pushing things forward are often the ones sharing what they’ve learned in real time. If you want to keep up (or better yet, get ahead), staying plugged into the right communities is everything.
Here are some of the best places to meet other 3D fashion folks, learn from the pros, and get a real feel for where the industry’s headed:
PI Apparel
If there’s a “main stage” for 3D fashion, it’s this. PI Apparel runs conferences around the world (New York, London, LA, Hong Kong) that bring together brand leaders, tech innovators, and artists shaping what’s next in fashion. It’s where teams talk through their CLO and Browzwear implementations, where startups share what’s working, and where the hallway conversations are just as valuable as the keynotes. A bunch of the people mentioned earlier speak here regularly or at the very least, they show up. If you want face time with the people doing the work, this is where it happens.
3D Tech Fest (by Alvanon)
Alvanon’s 3D Tech Fest is fully virtual, free to attend, and one of the most packed lineups you’ll find, with thousands of attendees, hundreds of speakers, and deep dives into everything from digital fit workflows to avatar pipelines to what AI actually means for apparel. It’s global, accessible, and has become one of the best places to hear directly from teams experimenting with digital fashion at scale. No travel required.
IACDE 3D Summit
This one’s more specialized — but in the best way. IACDE’s 3D Summit leans into the technical side of things: patternmaking, grading, engineering, and how 3D is transforming all of it. If you care about the nuts and bolts of garment construction, this is your crowd. Past sessions have featured hands-on Browzwear workshops from folks like Afsha Iragorri and Dita Penzová, and the overall vibe is collaborative, not corporate. Less hype, more “here’s how we’re actually doing it.”
New Communities Worth Watching
New ecosystems are emerging around digital fashion. The SYKY Collective, founded by Alice Delahunt, is building an incubator for the next wave of fashion talent by hosting events, offering mentorship, and giving artists like Stephy Fung and Taskin platforms to teach and grow.
Over at The Fabricant Studio, community members jump into design challenges and experiments in digital couture. And of course, both CLO and Browzwear have growing communities with forums, Discords, webinars, and user-led showcases. CLO’s Instagram even runs regular competitions that highlight up-and-coming talent.
The 3D Artist Community (and yes I am inserting a shameless plug for our own awesome community) is a growing space for artists who live at the intersection of creative tools and real production workflows. If you’ve been following these deep dives, you already know the kind of conversations we’re having: grounded, honest, and deeply curious about where this is all going. We’ve got a Discord server, Substack, and occasional community events, all focused on helping artists navigate the shift into industries like fashion, product design, and beyond.
Whether you’re looking for feedback, collaborators, or just a better understanding of where this field is going, these are the rooms…virtual and physical…worth being in.
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Hello! Michael Tanzillo here. I am the Head of Technical Artists with the Substance 3D team at Adobe. Previously, I was a Senior Artist on animated films at Blue Sky Studios/Disney with credits including three Ice Age movies, two Rios, Peanuts, Ferdinand, Spies in Disguise, and Epic.
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