[Free Zbrush Tutorial] How To Create Hair With Imm Brush

Hi guys this is bar Lunas from our heroes in the next tutorial, I'm going to explain you how to create hair using an mmm brush inside of ZBrush, so let's dive into it. So the first thing I'm going to explain you is how the eye movement brush is built by itself. So I'm going to create a sphere and I'm going to just create a stroke. So I can show you how is already built it, as you can tell, the root of the hair is already embedded inside the sphere, and then the tip of the hair is a slimmer by itself. This here is created using as lastik mode on, which means that I can reshape the cure without loosen the shape of the hair. The next thing that you should know is how to smooth out the stroke without loosing the shape of the hair. So right now I just going to draw a very regular line, so we get a very funky hair shape if you hover your cursor over the stroke, you're going to notice that the cursor turns blue. So if you click on that stage and then hit shift, you will be able to smooth the curve, but the shape the shape of the hair will be retained. This is very important because in some cases meanwhile, we create here here tends to snap in very regular places. So it's very important. We are able to smooth out certain areas or even the whole branch itself, all right, so we just you know, let's just dive into the hair in order to work with an mmm brush which you'll always have a mesh without subdivisions, so we're going just to duplicate. My previous cat and I'm going to delete all the subdivisions levels I'm going to rename it. So it's very obvious that is the head that I'm going to use for the mm and brush the first thing that I like to do. Every time I'm working here is focusing on the frontal hairline. This area is extremely important because it tries to read the shape of the hair, so I'm going to create a first care, strap that starts from the frontal hairline, so I go to create a new stroke. The good thing about this mmm is that already is working with the elastic boat on and it's going to array give me the option to retweet it after the initial stroke, so I can reshape it without loosing the shape of the hair once you're uncompleted satisfied. I tend to delete the curve and maybe just with a move brush make some small tweaks. Now I'm going to move to the other side. So now I'm going to come back to the previous brush just by clicking again in the brush palette. Something very important about this character is that I was not using any reference for me was more of an exploration work, so I got just to draw a stroke. I'M going to smooth it out to make sure that shape is clean. I'M from there I just going to tweak it and trying to get initial shaved already gives me a clue where I crash what I should actually hit into so right now. I just keep orbiting around trying to figure out where it's actually the best solution here and something I realized that I wanted some wind action. So if we want some wind action on here, normally in areas like, for example, the route, it should be already closer to the sculpt. So I'm going to start already tweaking that trying to make sure that looks natural but also looks nice to create a her base. Mesh we're just going to paint a mask on top of the head. The most important is that you are able to cover enough space, so you can extract an initial shape once you're completely happy with the painted mask. You just have to go through subtools extract and make sure you extract with zero thickness. Every time we do an extraction. That apology tends to be quite dense, so normally I like to go to ciri measure and play with the lowest value as possible. So we have a clean topology from the beginning. This hair base mesh is only going to be used to create or mmm brushes on top, so when we use it on the final render that is very important to have the claim from the beginning. Now I just going to give some thickness with panel looping and then with my move brush, I'm just going to start really tweaking the shape, so I cannot really see how it's going to be the final shape. This part, the process is quite simple and it's more about exploration, also depending on the reference that you're using, but it's very important that you are able to get an initial hair shape. So are you are going to see that also in areas like at the front front, hairline and also areas like the region of there here, I'm going to be even a sculpting on top and the reason? Why is that? It'S very important that even if it's just a base mesh, it's going to be looking at ready like here. So we have some initial clue about how or mmm brushes are going to be looking like or how the stroke are going to be head into. So at this stage we already have or hair basements done and it's time to already start adding more hair strands so with the same mmm brush we're going to already start playing with it. The process is exactly the same way that you can tell we're going to create the strokes, we're going to smooth out, if it's necessary and then with a move brush, we're going to start replacing and also trying to make sure that it blends, naturally, especially on the Roots the rule number one every time you're working here is to make sure that you focus on the major forms. My Mayer phones were talking about the major volumes so right now we're playing with mmm brushes. We need to make sure that we're working with very thick mmm and we cover all the empty spaces - did that initial hair base mesh is going to be deleted eventually, so it's very important that we cover all the spaces and they are not hold so this first. This first part of the process is to just cover the area and make sure that these Mayer volumes are happening. The second part of the process is focusing on the blending from those major volumes. Something very important is that, even if we're playing with the mmm brushes, they probably are not going to blend together very well, so we should try to avoid intersections and also, we need to make sure that the roots of the hair they are blended. Naturally, their areas like, for example, long hair we're going to have different regions of the hair left and right. So we need to make sure that the roots are happening and they are blending. Naturally, I just keep orbiting around trying to make sure that those intersections are not happening and the volumes are happening nicely. This part, the process tends to be this lower part, since we are blocking out the major forms so feel free to take your time. Don'T try to rush up as this going to drive already the most important look of the hair. Now I'm going to start with focusing on the back side of the character so for that I'm going to create just one single stroke. Try to make sure that is simple enough and then I'm going to make some duplicates of it. The reason why is because most of the hair from the back tends to have some very similar shape, so after making all the duplicates, I just going to start reshaping as a group and also individually to make sure that I have enough break. But also those volumes are happy also on the back. I still feel there are some areas they are not covered, so I just keep creating some few hair branches to make sure that I cover all these empty spaces. Something that I tend to do is always playing with polygroups. There is no way I can play with. Polygroups is that you can isolate hair branches by itself, so in some cases is very important, because it's not always you can access the hair branches very easily. In the sculpt, but you can also do it just by a poly blue also, that is very important already giving some color information. So I knew that this girl was going to be blond. So I just try to already give that look, and that is already going to start giving me some clue how the hair should be looking like once you are completely done with the major forms is where you can erase her making the breakups. So for that using the same brush, I just going to play with a very small size brush and then just add in the flyaways. This is going to give that nice and realistic look and this probably the part of the process that you are going to enjoy. The most since the mayor here is already done, and you are just pretty much just giving some life to the hair. So at this stage definitely I don't play with any reference. I just try to make sure that it's looking good and also the forms cannot go in the wind action that I was trying to Amy for at the beginning. As always, every single new brush any single new mmm brush that you place make sure that it blends. Naturally, so take your time to even smooth out also with a move brush, try to blend the roots and make sure there are no funk intersections. I keep orbiting around trying to make sure that I understand which RS should be covered or not at these points, as you can tell, the hair basement is always hidden as it's not computing necessary. Now, I'm just going to add some small strands just to give the the final break of the hair. So I really hope you like this tutorial. If you have any comments or any suggestion, just let us know and give us a comment in this video. We will always kinda reply. You alright guys. So thanks for watching