Best Avenue for Shoe Design?

Kenolisauce

I want to start designing women's shoes digitally. Zbrush is my program of choice. 
My main question is, does anyone know of a tool that can help me get measurements/proportions right? Like a digital foot mold I could build the shoe around? I've thought about using a model from DAZ but I'm wondering if there's anything more standardized.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
-Ken

Taylor Brown

Hmm maybe you could do some quick and dirty photogrammetry of a basic, featureless average sized shoe that can then use as a base mesh.

carvuliero

If you know zbrush why don't you make a shoe mold yourself ? using something like this image as guide

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a5/ed/f3/a5edf316cb04c93fdbb26dac315ccb73.png

Other then that there is specialized software called ICad3D which have build in molds that you could "probably " export

Also I will suggest to get this book if you don't already have it have pretty cool stuff about shoes design, anatomy patterns and what not

Footwear Design (Portfolio Skills: Fashion & Textiles)

Or as Taylor suggested you could buy an old wooden mold and scan it

Kenolisauce

Thanks for the responses guys! 
Carvuliero I'm going to look deeper into iCad3D in general, as it looks like something that'd be pretty useful beyond the molds. 
Thanks also for the book recommendation. Very helpful!

carvuliero

If you up for some weird organic type modeling you can check solidThinking as well