Fashion Sketch to Animation
From Concept to Creation
Where line becomes life
This AI-powered workflow transforms hand-drawn sketches into animated garments - where motion becomes memory, and each design speaks a deeper truth. By translating static fashion concepts into high-fidelity visuals, it unlocks new ways for storytelling, prototyping and to and to emotionally connect.
Each sketch becomes more than a draft - it becomes a signal of becoming. These garments carry fragments of identity, shaped by emotion and influence, animated with intention. Fashion doesn’t just walk here; it remembers who you were, reflects who you are, and whispers who you’re becoming.
Whether for digital fashion, virtual try-ons, or immersive campaigns, this process bridges imagination and innovation - where line becomes life, and every garment is a symbol in motion.
Process:
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1. Hand Sketch to AI Prompt
Conceptual garment sketches were translated into descriptive prompts, guiding AI generation with cues around silhouette, texture, and style.
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2. ComfyUI Pipeline – Stylized Output Generation
Using ComfyUI, a stylized + photorealistic generation pipeline was built to convert sketch prompts into 2D visual outputs. This allowed for iterative refinement across fabric texture, colour, and photographic realism.
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3. Image to Animation
Selected AI-generated looks were animated using GAN-based motion tools, transforming static outputs into high-fidelity, lifelike fashion movements.
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4. Final Output: Motion-Ready Looks
The animated garments were composited for fashion storytelling, campaign visuals, or motion testing—bridging the gap between sketch, style, and story.
Comfy UI Pipeline Overview
Image: Visualizing the stylized + photo-real AI workflow used to convert hand-drawn sketches into 2D digital fashion outputs.
Using ComfyUI and animation tools, I built a pipeline that explores the synergy between AI and human creativity. This system treats AI not just as a tool, but as a co-creator - offering precision with flexibility. Users can guide the outcome with sketches, text prompts, and style selections, adjusting the randomness to shape each visual. It’s a controlled dance between chaos and clarity - where garments are born from code, but shaped by intention.
A Garment in motion becomes a language
A Signal , Symbol of your true Self
Video: Maria Nazarenko - Sketching the shape of the body but leaving out some detail depicting the unseen identity. The starting point a fragment from a previous garment or body - one garment/body goes into another as the identity dissolves and changes from each influence.
The theme of identity pulses through Maria’s work like a signal - subtle, shifting, and deeply felt. Her designs explore how selfhood dissolves and reshapes, responding to emotional influences like memory, change, and vulnerability.
Using oil pastels and rubbing techniques, Maria intentionally distorts her illustrations - inviting transformation to unfold on the page. These textures become metaphors: garments as echoes of inner shifts, unfinished lines as invitations to evolve.
This influence continues through her pre-collection screen prints, where silk is layered with delicate irregularities. French seams are left visible, not hidden, revealing both craftsmanship and fragility. Her garments embody a quiet strength—soft but certain—mirroring the strength it takes to be seen while still becoming.
In her collection, each look is a fragment of becoming. A line becomes a body. A sketch becomes a memory. A garment becomes language. Identity is not fixed - it is always folding, reforming, and remembered in motion.
Identity as a form of becoming
“My Design work is always about my background, my own experience, feelings, I use fashion as a tool, as a language, as a form of art.”
— Quote Source - Maria Nazarenko
A garment in motion becomes a language
“ I spend a large portion of my time doing conceptual designs, looking at the details and how I can bring the concept into detail and make each garment speak by itself.”
— Quote Source - Maria Nazarenko
Closing Statement
This workflow brings imagination into motion - where a line on paper becomes a moving body with memory from the hand that shaped it , and an idea becomes an experience.
It redefines the sketch not as static form, but as a signal - ready to be translated, animated, and expressed through digital skin. In this new era of design, fashion doesn’t just walk. It remembers the gesture that drew it into being and the emotion they were always meant to express.
Collaborations: Curious minds and creative collaborators are always welcome. Whether you’re into AI, animation, or storytelling through design—let’s connect and see what we can create together.
Contributors: Maria Nazarenko _ Womenswear Fashion Student at London College of Fashion - Her pre and final collection Sketches were used. Alex Marshall the content production team at London College of fashion for filming Maria sketching.