Blender 2.8 Hair Beginner Tutorial
- Posted on 13 February, 2020
- 6D Hair Extensions
- By Anonymous
This is a beginner tutorial for Blender 2.8 and getting started with Hair particle emitters with Blender Eevee. I go step by step through the process of creating hair for a sphere as emitter and show the basic steps to get started with this feature.
After creating the hair I also explain how to edit it using the comb brushes or the cut brush in Particle edit mode. In the end I add another light souce and render the scene using the Eevee renderer.
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Hi Jayanam here with a step-by-step beginner guide for getting started with hair in Blender 2.8.. This time I removed the default cube because I want to use a sphere as a hair emitter., I press SHIFT + A to add it.. The shading are set to smooth. I use the default material and set the color for this to a bluish tone for instance.. Okay, then it's time to set the viewport shading to render preview. The renderer is Eevee by default.. I select this point light here and press SHIFT + D to duplicate it. So that I have two lights in the scene, but I guess I will add another light source later on. All right now I select the sphere and go here to the particle properties. Tab. Add a new particle system and instead of using emitter, I set it to hair and ... BOOM. Here we have it: hair particles visible in the scene Great, but they are very long. So I reduce the length.. I set it to about 0.3 0.4. That looks good.. The next section is render.. Let'S see., The material is set to the default material., That's fine, and then we can increase the render steps a bit, but that's optional.. So you can see step by step. The next section is viewport. Display.. Here is nothing to do., So we go to the children, and here I select interpolated and this changes everything. Look at this. Here you can set the amount, the number of children for the display and for the render I increase it a bit for the display for The render. It is even higher., The other settings are keep as they are, but I'd like to change to a bit more advanced settings, but they are great.. First, I increase the number of clumping, which has a nice effect., Look at this., Really nice And, of course, real time, because we are using the Eevee renderer.. Then I also like to modify the roughness for the end points and some random roughness. Okay, that's all I wanted to change. Just a few basic properties for getting started, and it already looks quite interesting.. Okay, then we go here to the render settings. Enable some ambient occlusion.. Also, bloom could look very nice later on when we add a new light and also screen-space reflection., And what you can set here as well is the hair shape type.. You can choose between strand and strip.. Here you can see the difference. Both are interesting, but for the moment stick to strand, which is the default. Great and now comes something really cool. We go to the particle edit, which is yeah an edit mode for the hair.. Okay. First, it looks like this.. We see these black lines and then I select this comb brush to really comb the hair.. As always, you can press the F key to change the size of the brush or SHIFT + F to adjust the strength.. You can rotate the viewport and comb from every side., But now you could say ``. Well, I only see these black lines.. How can I say that it looks good in the end ?'', But we are here in real-time rendering and the comb brush has an option which is called children.: Okay, a bool option, and when you enable it, you can see the result as a real-time render. Preview. Really amazing: Okay, now I'm combing this, but if it looks a bit too flat, you can select the puff brush. Increase the brush size a bit by pressing the F key and click here and there to make it look a bit more puffy.. There are more brushes, for instance, for adding or smoothing the hair, and this one is for changing the hair. Length. Most brushes can be inverted when you hold the shift key down while using them.. Another brush is the cut brush and I think the name says it. All. You can use it for a nice haircut., Okay, but I think this one is not that nice, so we'll undo, this. Alright. So let's render this., I press the 0 key on the numpad so that I can see the scene through my camera.. I choose a bit darker background here in the world properties and when I press the F12 key the scene and the hair is rendered.. Okay, that's nice, but not too impressive.. So, let's go here to the render settings again and try the strip instead of the strand hair, shape, type. Yeah, I like it., But how about duplicating this and use the same one in a different color? We just have to press SHIFT+ D to duplicate the sphere and then press G to move them to different locations., Then press S to make them a bit smaller.. Okay, then I go to the material tab for the selected one. Duplicate the material and set the color to a red tone. Great, but they are still a bit too flat.. So I use the puff brush again for both., Then add a sunlight, for example, to the scene. Rotate it. Set the color and increase the strength. Then again render it, and here we go., I'm sure you get the idea.. So this was getting started with Blender 2.8 Hair.. If you're interested in this topic, then let me know - and I will create more detailed tutorials. - Don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and support me as my patron. Follow me on my Instagram Twitter. Facebook - and I see you soon here - on Jayanam
Comments
Small Cerberus: this is honestly my favorite hair tutorial I get EXTREMELY confused and overwhelmed with this program VERY easily considering I only started working with it three days ago, and a lot of tutorials just make it even more overwhelming imo Im not sure if its just how your voice is, or how you go about, but this was really easy to watch and follow and I appreciate you <3
Hạt Bụi Nhỏ: love it really helpful
Koketso K: can we just take a moment to appreciate that everyday their is a new blender tutorial on youtube,what a time time get into 3d,thanks for the tutorial.
TacoWolf: you just taught me how to make a donut covered in hair : D
Darren Contreras: Love tutorials like this! Simple, clear, easy and straight to the point!
Regal_7: Hi, I'm new to 2D & 3D animation, I have a question. If you animated the sphere with the hair on it, let say rotate it 180 degrees repeatedly, will the hair also move naturally (with inertia and bouncyness) or will the whole thing (sphere and hair) rotate together in one rigid motion? Sorry if I could not explain it properly
Sanjay Patel: Would love to see more tutorials on this topic specially with long hairstyles
一ting Hung: Great tutorial! Definitely has everything I need to know about hair particles as a beginner!
Blender Share / Scantron5000: The most gentle default cube deletion I’ve ever seen.
Void lon iXaarii: Thank you very much. Hope you'll do similar ones for cloth, fluids and physics
Insaisissable 3: Very interested to see more tutorials on hair. Playing with the hair on a head (woman/man) and creating different hair styles, combing it, cutting it, using dynamics, all this stuff would be very interesting.
Keith Seymour: Brilliant. So clear and easy to follow. Thank you!
Ann: Such a lovely tutorial! Thanks a lot for the patience and details!!! Please make more ^^
Shirleyrecreates: How do I hide areas of hair particle so I can comb other areas easily
Nico van der Merwe: Very nice tutorial, love how you don't skip the basics but explain each function and key press.
Dimitri Lalushi: Very straightforward, easy to understand tutorial. Thanks a lot! Make, please, some other such tutorials for hair tools in Blender. Tutorials that show how to put hair in some areas of the surface of an object only, how to make multi colored furs (or textured ones) etc. It would be very helpful to have some step by step, easy tutorials on various aspects of using the hair tools in Blender.
Bandit of Bandwidth: This was exactly the kind of introduction I needed into making hair/fur in Blender. Thanks a ton.
Dangle Sesh: You solved a massive problem for me mate. Your tutorials are fantastic! Keep up the good work!
Deigratia Daniels: One of the best tutorials I've seen on blender hair. Thank you so much for this!!!
Santiago Vivanco: Best blender hair tutorial ever! Easy to follow and straight to the point! Thank you so much...
Alice S.: what a beautifully done tutorial, thank you so much!
cmtsdt: Very good instructions, well explained. I learned a lot. I always like your tutorials.
Ruancdg: Great video! A really helpful tutorial :)
Julious360: great tutorial!! and right to the point. Thank you.
Josh Underwood: Very nice and to the point without the usual hour and a half, "you could do this" "use this $100 addon" stuff in a lot of tutorials. Thank you for this video! Wish I'd found it sooner!
Anthony huynh: Amazing tutorial! It’s as I can feel the texture through the screen!
el profesor: Thanks for your time to share all these didactically excellent tutorials.
Aloomia: Awesome tutorial ,hoping to use it in my future projects
Maxer 1189: man this is literally the best tutorial ive ever seen, thank you so much!
Javier Flores: Bro, the tip about seeing the hair while combing was really exactly what I needed. Please make more of these and thank you for the knowledge!
Michael Constantine: very nice, really did explained very nice, this was my first tutorial in Blender and i understood every single thing
The Grain Doctor: This was fantastic, thank you!
ThatPurplePixel: thank you so much for this tutorial everything was so simply explained made it very easy to follow along, i was sacred of trying hair and fur because it seemed complicated, but now i know i can do it!
Denise Nogueira Moriama: So usefull! Simple and easy to understand! Thank you very much for your time and for sharing your knowledge!
carlos: I just wanted to make a tribble and this is so helpful, thanks :)
Strike the Earth: for once a tutorial that gets to the point thanks!
FFPlayshen -Z: This tutorial is great! like it very much! I hope you can provide a set of xgen with Maya The same character hair tutorial, I think there will be a lot of people willing to see.
Jimena de la Mora: Hello! When working with typography I imported the SVG, extruded and made it a mesh then applied the hair as you explained but it goes in weird directions. Do you know how to control this to make the hair look even? The brushing manipulation didn't work for me in this case. Thank you :)
RANDOM: Hi there, this was amazing, thank you so much for it, I will subscribe and follow your work, tutorials are always improving the community!, thanks for what you do.
Farid Hajji: Wonderful tutorial! Thanks a lot.
Falcone Paulino: Muchas gracias! Me sirvió mucho!
Simplifying Education: Amazing tutorial You made an unbelievable thing very nice I am working on a teddy bear And obviously, I will need fur for a teddy bear I found this as the best tutorial. This is unbelievable Keep it up ✨
Michael Edward Ricks : GREAT tutorial @jayanam! You showed me so much in 6 minutes! I've been scouring the internet for info on Blender hair and am so glad I came across your channel! I was wondering - is there a way to save a hair configuration as a preset so it can be dragged and dropped (or applied) to another model? Also, have you taken this into Unreal Engine and used it with the new hair groom feature? I successfully got the groom in Unreal Engine but it was really dense so I'll have to play around with the hair settings in Blender. Keep up the great work!
Rahel G: Very helpful tutorial, thank you.
Andrew Perdzock: This is awesome, I've been teaching myself hair the past few weeks, and you showed me a few things I have been missing. Please do a basic animating of hair one!
Diamond Ditto: Thank you so much! It was really helpful!
Hawaii Dee Gee: Thank you, Jayanam, for this terrific tutorial. Please consider making one for the short hair on a horse's face or a lion's tail. When I apply hair to a long cylinder, it parts in the middle and flows toward both ends. Please show us how to solve that. Much aloha to you.
Musetrigger: Seems easy enough. I'm contemplating whether I should generate hair particles for my 3D character, or just model geometry for the hair. I'll need to do the eyelashes and brows as well, of course.
Miah: It blow my mind that we can achieve such awesome render in 5 min, for FREE... Blender is incredible! And Thanks for the awesome tutorials, really help getting started!
Sandorah O'Rhane: Amazing tutorial! Thank you! I'll now wander your channel looking for some video explaining how to add textures to the hair, like how to do a cat fur or similar stuff. If you haven't done one, well, I'd love to watch it in your kind voice.
Savoir Pour Tous: Excellent comme d’habitude, cela m’a donné pleins d’idées, merci pour l’astuce du children dans le workspace, beaucoup plus pratique afin de voir ce que l’on fait, super comme d’habitude, bonne journée et au plaisir de te suivre. Juste un passionné,
Matt: BRILLIANT tutorial! Thanks so much
the sheep regime: Really thank you, ur tutorials are big help for beginners like me, and finding tutorial for blender 2.8 is kinda tough,most tutorialsl videos use Blender 2.79, but you use 2.8, ur videos r really awesome
G. Kems: Thanks for the tutorial, but for those who have a discrete PC I would suggest seeing the results in EVEE with all the available effects activated.
Jane Kennaway: This is made so simple! Thank you.
Felix Cheng: This is a very good tutorial. If I may ask. For example, if you want some spots on your fur, how would you do that. (e.g., Sulley from Monsters Inc has purple fur spots around his tail area)
itsall3D: This is the best tutorial i have ever came across when it comes to hair, thank you!
anzatzi: Very clear and concise. Thank you
Rafi Barides: awesome video! how can we make hair react to gravity for instance if I want the ball to bounce?
Terry DJ: Great tutorial! been a fan of your tutorial styles for quite a while. However, I was wondering why not use the principled hair for shading? Is that because principled shader is less costly on render times?
Yurup: Nice video! I was wondering if you have any information on how hair is made in games? Is it sculpting or is it using the same kind of particle system this is?
ololorita: Thank you very much! So cool and helpful tutorial and you have amazing English, like a TV presenter :-) Your videos are not the Blender tutorials but also English lessons:)))) :-*
HasanRx7: I always sucked in blender particle system. But man, I have never seen such a clear tutorial for this topic till now! Thank you so much for this video, it really helped :D
ISR: This was great as the results are almost instant and so simple. Very eye catching. Now, could you show how to animate the hair to simulate the object moving or bobbing down a path? That would be great. Thanks for this.
minggnim: Good job. Simple and easy to follow.
Guillaume C: Awesome tutorial! As always
Mark B Tomlinson: Perfect demonstration direct to the point. Danke sehr!
Marek Struhař: Awesome little tutorial, thank you :)
Kathryn Prater: Thank you! I had no idea where to get started with hair. This was perfect!
Kirk R: I think you have such a good tutorial voice and style. Thanks! Will you do more on hair at all? It would be great to see your way of adding hairs as a beard to a character for example.
Katherine D Verónica Molina: Thank you! I love how u explain things :)
juliandarley: many thanks. hair is looking so much better in blender now. i second all those that want to see a tutorial on realistic human hair for men and women. perhaps not so trivial to do, but would be of great use.
Lomax: This is great, but I get an issue where the number of particles that I emit gets greyed out and I can't edit the number anymore. I'm also working with very short hair and the grooming has very little influence. I'll figure it all out in time, but if you have a fix off the top of your head it'd be greatly appreciated.
NatureGirl Gaming: I am going to start Blender and eevee soon and this really helped me with anxiety! I thought I was going to needing to sculpt fur myself and then make it move when the legs moved, this seems way better XD
Design Product KLT: Hi, how to adjust the fur in one spesific part of an object? thank your, I'll wait for your response ^^
David Liceaga: Short and sweet, thanks for sharing!
M Ryan: love this video! Straight to the point. One thing I cant get though, is I have hair coming through other areas I don't want it to and cutting it or smoothing it out does nothing. I'm losing my mind over this.
Betta06: omg thank you so much for making this! I couldn't make anything but following your tutorial I made this!
John Smith: Congrats. I'll use it as a working base to produce a body hair texture I can use in 2D software. If you care to do a tutorial on this I'll be happy to follow. I mean the hair young women have on legs, midriffs or arms.
vivek tyagi: Many Thanks. Can we export it as FBX ? Would it export as a mesh with texture ? Can the exported FBX hair be used in some other software ?
Brendan Murphy: Definitely interested in hair and particles in general
liliac moon: I love This, it seems so easy
It's Teddy Bear: Thank you so much this helped a lot
kradz: this is actually such a good tutorial
cupa saza: Hey, I'm new to Blender, and I had a question. So, I have a hoodie on my model, and I want to make the hood furry. I selected the points in the edit mode, selected all the points in the hood, and set the particle to Hair. Trouble is, it doesn't do anything. Is there anything I might be doing wrong?
Hayden Burgess: dude so easy to follow thank you so much!
lonewolf: real help full and the way you explain things is clear so i understand it so easy
Alexander Lopes: Best type of tutorial ever! Thanks!
Cassiel Weitzel: Thanks! Great hair tutorial!
Stephen Meakin: Great tutorial, many thanks
Anvesh2013: I didnt know there's a feature like comb.. hell the particle edit option until now. Thank you.
BlenderFan: Thank you for this great beginner tutorial. Happy blending.
LeoDaBest 180: This is ABSOLUTELY HELPFUL. But Question: How Do I add Hair on my Model on areas only - not the whole mesh. How do I do that?
Linda Ricci: Fantastic. Thank you!
c b: Is there a way to adjust the thickness? I would like to make soft hair like babies', but it seems like bear fur :) Many thanks
MastART: Really usefull tutorial, thank you!!! But why is my "Emission" in particle all of a sudden greyed out? Any Idea? Anybody? thank you
Kex: This is straight up the best tutorial for hair
Frayed Sanity: You have a really cool and modest way of teaching. I like it. Subscribing to you :)
FinalFantasyHQ: Can you make the hair have a different color than the sphere?
shibanobi 69: how can would you render this outside blender, UE4, UE5 or Unity for example? thank you so much for this tutorial you are amazing!