Ivan Volchenskov

Ivan Volchenskov

CEO & Co-Founder of NewArc.ai. A serial entrepreneur and tech geek, building AI tools to help designers visualize ideas in fashion, apparel, and footwear.

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Use your photos, illustrations, or sketches to visualise multiple concepts for your design projects.

Reduced Video Generation Pricing by 45%

We’ve updated our pricing for Image to Video generation. Across all durations and resolutions, prices are now lower by around 45%. The goal is simple: make it easier to experiment, iterate, and use video more often in your workflow. Nothing else has changed. The same duration, quality, and workflow. Below is a comparison of the old and new pricing. Old pricing Duration 480p 720p 1080p 3s 170 339 848 5s 283 565 1,412 10s 566 1,130 2,824 New pricing (-45%) Duration 480p

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Re-Introducing More Creative Controls for the V4 model

All of the functions that were previously available for the V3 model are now accessible with our latest V4 model. Here is what’s been added.  Choose the number of images to generate  Select from 1, 4, or 8 images each time you create a new generation.  Upscale Download a higher-quality 4K version of your image. Upscale improves clarity and detail, giving you a cleaner result for presentations, close inspection, or larger-format print (find out more). Remove Background Export the key item

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New Grid View: Find What You Need, Faster

When a project fills up with generations, finding one specific result shouldn’t slow you down. We’ve just introduced a new Grid View to make browsing your project feed quicker without the need to expand each section. Grid View (like on a screenshot above) is a compact visual grid of all images and videos in your project, designed for fast scanning. Grid View makes it easier to: * Quickly browse through dozens of generations to find the best result * Find the strongest concept without openi

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Improved Upscale: Bigger Images. Better Quality

We’ve made some improvements to the Upscale feature. It’s now available everywhere you can download an image.  Upscale feature now does a better job at: * Cleaning up noise * Reconstructing fine details  * Enhancing clarity while increasing resolution This results in an image that’s larger and clearer, ready for close inspection, presentations or larger print.  Fast (42 credits) Fast mode is designed for everyday use. Even for large-format options like A1 print, ‘Fast’ will produce cle

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Multiple Items in Virtual Try-On

NewArc's Virtual Try-On just got yet another big upgrade: you can now use our AI to fit multiple products on a model with a single generation, making it easier than ever to show complete looks, not just individual pieces. You can add up to 5 product images to one Virtual Try-On.  Give it a try and let us know what you think!

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Improved Virtual Try-On

Virtual Try-On is one of the tools on NewArc that lets you place your product on a model, either by uploading your own model photo or by generating a new one from a prompt. It’s useful for quick visualizations, presentations, and checking how the product you are working on may look on a person. We’ve just released a new version of Virtual Try-On. What’s improved 1. Posture is kept exactly as in the original photo 2. The model’s face and identity stay consistent 3. Footwear maintains correc

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Sketch Trousers and Pants with AI: From Concept to Photorealistic Design

Why Start with Sketches for Trousers? Before diving into AI workflows, it is important to understand the foundational role of sketching in any successful trouser design. Sketching bridges abstract ideas and garments, offering designers a method of exploring proportions and details of the future product while also building their knowledge base needed for further refinement of that product with AI tools. The Role of Sketches in Fashion Design Fashion sketching is a visual conversation between

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Easy Fashion Design Sketches: Your Starter Guide to Fashion Flats

Getting to Know Fashion Sketches and Flats Effective communication is the foundation of great fashion design. Any garment begins as a simple idea translated onto paper or screen before making its way to production in one way or another. Fashion flats play an undeniably important role here as seemingly unassuming, yet invaluable, technical drawings that reduce the gap between tangible creation and creative vision. Fashion Flats Explained: What They Are and Why They Matter Fashion flats are of

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15 Must-Have Apps for Every Fashion Designer in 2025

Why Fashion Designers Are Embracing Digital Tools The average design studio in 2025 has very little in common with its counterpart from just 10 years ago. Screens and styluses now completely dominate the same areas and workflows in which cutting tables and paper sketches once played a prominent role. The shift is more than aesthetic, but a fundamental transformation in the way fashion comes to life. Modern designers navigate a complex landscape in which physical and digital realms are fundamen

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Clo3D Alternatives and Competitors

General description of Clo3D Clo3D revolutionized the apparel design process by providing designers with a virtual workspace in which garments are easily created, fitted, and visualized without the necessity to produce physical samples with each design change. The software combines accurate fabric physics and intuitive pattern-making tools, which allow designers to see how materials will drape and flow on digital avatars. Such capability has proven itself especially valuable for businesses that

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How to Land a Job in Design: Five Essential Tips for Aspiring Footwear Designers

At NewArc.ai, a huge part of our mission is empowering the next generation of forward-thinking designers. One of the overall reasons this blog even exists is exactly that – because we believe in the power of collaboration in the creative industries. Having such a wealth of expertise onboard within our designer community, we do our best to channel this wisdom to its more junior members – including design students. This is a good moment to remind you that NewArc.ai is available to all design stud

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What you've created in June 2024

It’s summertime – which in the world of design usually means brighter colours, bolder concepts and lots of swimwear, and our creative community is slaying the trends (as they always do!). Let’s take another tour into the world of imagination – full of futuristic sneakers, couture wear and beautiful landscapes (if only we could generate our summer vacation destinations the same way we can do with digital fashion!) Some Designers We Always Keep an Eye On: AD Martinez – Sneakerhead Designer fro

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