The Ultimate Guide For Creating Stylized Hair In Zbrush

If you want to learn everything about creating stylized hair, then this tutorial by the wonderful dan eater is for you. I also wanted to let you know that for a very limited time, the 3d coloring book is now only 49. You want to learn some stylized texturing techniques, click the link in the description. Now, let's get right into the tutorial hey there. My name is dan and i'm a character. Artist for video games. I'Ve modeled quite a few characters over the years, but i'm probably most known for creating gorgeous women with long flowing hair. Today i will be guiding you through the stylized hair creation for street fighters, trunnily or she's called in america. Now i know the tutorials can be a boring, tedious experience, so i will try to keep this one as short and concise as possible. If there's anything you'd like to know that isn't answered here feel free to leave me a comment on youtube or art station. Welcome to stylized hair creation in zbrush, i guess subscribe and stuff. So before we get into the actual zebra stuff, we want to make sure we have a solid understanding of how the air is actually going to be constructed when looking at this concept, art before anything else, your eyes go to one area and one area. Only the hair upon review you'll notice that it's actually made up of several different parts. This is an important step, because, even though you won't find thousands of tiny strands in stylus there like with something like xgen, you still want to break up the hairstyle into separate chunks, so you can have more control while allowing for better rigging in animation. This stage is commonly referred to as a block out, and what you need to remember is that the only purpose of this mesh is just to lay the groundwork for the real hair you're, eventually going to make three main points to keep in mind. During this stage. Number one work on a low subdivision level or dynamesh resolution, the more polygons you have the more difficult it is to manage. Number two: don't worry about making the block out look pretty at this stage. It just needs to serve a purpose. Number three check your silhouette make sure you've got nice clean curves and that the shapes really well from every angle. So now that we've got some decent looking block out here, we can move on to the big boy territory. Creating the actual hair strands join me in the next video on this playlist to learn some of my techniques for creating appealing style as hair. Now that we've got a rough block out here, we can start going over the process of creating the strands before we get started. If, like me, you also can't understand half of what i'm saying feel free to turn on the subtitles and pretend this is a foreign tutorial. So the way i do hair in zbrush is by using this brush was made by dill necron, who is a very professional artist and one of my favorite character. Modelers he's also got great initials if you're not already familiar with it. A curved brush doesn't function like a regular sculpting brush, but is more similar to maya's, nurbs or 3ds. Max'S splines is that you basically control a so-called wire holding your shape together. Let'S take a look at how the hair tubes brush works before we get into the actual hair creation to select the brush hit b d e start by dragging a line across the mesh. When you release you'll notice, the root and tip are inverted, simply: go to stroke, curve modifier and set the curve based on the shape you want. I normally start with something like this always check the curved step value before you start choosing a low value will make your curve have too many polygons that will make it harder to control, but a high value won't give you enough polygons to work with. I usually create strands from front to back. So, let's start with this section in the front: we'll do this one in real time and after that, i'll time lapse the rest of the hair until we get to the braids just so this tutorial doesn't end up taking 3 hours of your time, so uh um Um, oh um, uh, foreign um, so now that we're done with the front bangs and before we move on to the time lapse. Let'S recap: the process create the strand on top of the temporary hair mesh play around with the curve until you're, happy and then left click anywhere to finalize, either split up the strand into a different subtle or just keep it as a separate polygroup. Whatever works for you, use, move inflate pinch and snake hooks to further tweak the strands. Do not use smooth after you're done, placing all the necessary strands, merge them together and delete the temporary base. Mesh move the strands around until you're happy but make sure to keep everything round clean and sharp. Don'T worry if some of the strands look, duplicated or repetitive, we'll add some variation later, once you're ready for the next step. We can move on to part 3 of this playlist, creating the rest of the strands. Now that we're done with the front part, let's continue placing the strands you can choose to watch a 12-minute time-lapse of the entire process or, if you're short on time, you can skip to 12 35 and just watch the recap enjoy. I i can feel it. I can feel i can feel it. I can feel them i can feel like. I can see. I can see so um, oh so hello, so foreign, now that more sections have been added. Let'S go over some of the steps that i've taken when dealing with symmetrical hair - that's parted in the middle. It'S often a good idea to work without symmetry at first and then mirror the hair using subtle master. This will prevent errors and retain the polygroups, try to close any gaps between the strands that look unintentional. You want the hair to look full and clean, constantly switch up the materials you'd, be amazed by how many issues you'll discover, use zero measure to either add edge loops, where you feel you don't have enough or, conversely, remove edge loops that you feel are unnecessary or Excessive, this can be helpful in preventing redundancy try to keep obvious overlapping or clipping of strands to a minimum in the next video we'll create the braids and wrap up the rest of the hair. See you there welcome to part 4 of the hair tutorial in this video, we'll finally finish placing the strands i'll start with completing the main part in the bag. Before moving on to the braids, you can watch the time lapse or just skip to 12 to anywhere and start going over the process of creating the braids enjoy me. My me, oh yes, um me is um is is, is um uh? Oh me me. Oh me. If hey, hey, hey so hey yay, oh so you so now that all our strands are in place, let's create the base of the braids. This is actually one of the easiest parts of the hair for this process. I like to start off by using this awesome free brush from bat king i've provided a link in the description in case you want to use it yourself. First, create the braids using the same method as the strands, adjust the curve step and tweak the shape until you're happy after we've made our base. Let'S make it interesting, i'm going to show you a little trick to easily add detail and variation to your hair. First, to make things easier, i'll delete one side of the braids. Next, i'm going to split up the three polygroups into different subtools. Now comes the creative part using z modeler. I crease a few of the edge loops and then turn those creases into curves using stroke curve functions frame mesh while only have increased edges turned on next, we can use the very same hair tubes brush to place the strand along the curve of the braid. As always hit, b, d e and click on the curve, chances are you're not going to get a great result right of the bat so play around with the brush size and curve step. Finally, we want to try to make the strands merge with the current shape. So go to brush depth and lower the depth just a little bit. What you'll eventually get is a much nicer and more detailed result with polygroups that you can easily manipulate to create some fun variation now that we're done with the braids. Let'S move on to the final video in this tutorial series, see you there. Congratulations you've made it to the fifth and final part of this tutorial. Are you still motivated, or do you feel like pulling your hair out now that our hair has finally been completed after a few minor tweaks? Let'S recap: the entire process gather some reference plan out. Your hair sections create a rough blockout using basic spheres and dynamesh create the hair curves using de hair tubes on top of the hair trunks, adjust the shape, volume and curvature of the strands using move, pinch and inflate make sure it looks clean and natural from every Angle, profit, i hope you guys enjoyed the video massive thanks to dan for sharing this with the community and sharing all of that knowledge. If you want to check out more of his work, feel free to check him out on his art station. His instagram and check out his youtube channel as well we'll see you guys in the next video you