By Katie McIntyre and Marisa Lu
A piece that takes on the challenge of visual contrast; taking the messy, often uncomfortable visual motifs of physical birth, and crafting it beautifully as a metaphor celebrating women reforging themselves and each other.
Crafted in a lengthy process with custom created avatars, hand sculpted hair and body detailing using VR, z-brush, DAZ, Cinema 4D and procreate.
Artist Bio
Katie McIntyre is an artist, industrial and fashion designer, director and innovator. She is known for her visual philosophy of feminine futurism—a method of incorporating the empowered feminine voice into often highly patriarchal industries. She has lectured in the countries most prestigious STEM schools like Carnegie Mellon University, and was hired by both Apple and Google to develop new technology. Her latest endeavor—designing a feminist futurist car, resulted in a collaboration with Mugler/Goat in a campaign featuring Eartheater. Time Magazine has listed her as “one of the world’s leading female VFX artists” and she has create sold out NFT collections with both Time Magazine and Dress X. In the realm of fashion, she has been developing zero gravity space suits that have been featured at the Los Angles Science Center and she has created her own line of fashion with Flo Milli, Amazon and Hypebeast She has made her mark in pop culture by becoming the go to VFX artist for album art work for musicians like Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, Normani, Lizzo, and Latto for her distinct bold feminine style. Her album art work for Latto’s “Pussy” went viral for its cathartic message on Post Roe America.
Marisa is an interaction designer and artist prototyping creative applications for the front half of the Gartner Hype cycle. In her 9 to 5, Marisa designs software and concept videos for experimental hardware at a consumer electronics company. In her 5 to 9, she hones her craft in visual effects and illustration work for Adobe, FKTwigs, Normani, Cardi B, and children’s books. Before this, she studied Design and HCI at Carnegie Mellon where she worked in a robotics lab, and children’s language learning lab.
