A footwear digitization system and method configured to determine physical attributes for any given footwear or other cut-and-stitched item, including dimensional and spatial properties, optical attributes, and assembly information, and utilizing those properties and attributes to generate a digital three-dimensional model thereof. The invention relates generally to the field of garment digitization, and the subsequent production of computer-generated images depicting the (digitized) garment at a level of quality comparable to studio photographs of the real garment article.