Arcane Style Tutorial Part 1: Hair (Blender 3.0 / EEVEE)

Video tutorial on how to replicate the stylized look of hair in the Arcane animated series.
This tutorial was done using Blender 3.0
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[@jarrodpjohnston]

Hair Info node has been renamed to Curves Info for those who were confused like me.

[@onkisa]

thank you so fucking much for this

[@ZaphkielYodBet]

omg thank you!

[@MrThatrealdeal]

LIFE SAVER HAHA

[@WoklingMully]

OMG THIS SAVES ME SO MUCH TIME THANKYOU

[@titsbitchmcgee7502]

I swear Blender is always making things more confusing

[@Macaxdd]

In case anyone else was having "weird" behavior with shadows: remember your WORLD COLOR and STRENGTH contribute to illuminating Diffuse BSDF. I had to tweak the world shader with a Light Path node by mixing a 0 strength background in using "IsDiffuseRay" as factor. That's because my 50% gray strength 1 world was lighting the hair, thus not giving the shadows in the video. Top tier tutorial as always LBS! I am astounded I'm learning so much for free and looking forward to part 2!

[@lastbaiken1177]

Sorry for bothering you, but could you post your world setup? I can't mimick his style at all no matter how hard I try. Something is really off with the world lighting.

[@nyquilthegreat]

If I started with default cube on a new file, and a spotlight turns the hair black where it points at, is this due to my world color as you're describing, or something I missed on a node down in the video?

[@delta_yd]

I can't understand what you said :(

[@Macaxdd]

@@nyquilthegreat That's probably something that has to do with either an invert node or some color ramp / map range being set weird, cause what you're describing is "inverted shadow/light behavior"

[@DonaldDrennan]

I just added a sky background in World Shading. I made a dark blue to light blue gradient. It's very important, but is not mentioned in the tutorial at all. Lighting is very important too.

[@CharacterDesignForge]

Absolutely DOWN for this! Can't wait to watch, thank you so much!

[@Stephen-T-Clark]

Hey, look! It's Brookes! It's so cool to see you on the blender side of town.

[@GunGryphon]

@@Stephen-T-Clark Same

[@CharacterDesignForge]

@@Stephen-T-Clark You know it! Stormfellers is being made all inside Blender!

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Glad to hear from you again Brookes! Hope your project is going well! ; )

[@maglerdon]

Legitimately the best NPR blender tutorials I’ve found on KZbin. Thank you so much for your detailed explanation of everything!

[@cloudlove1]

This is amazing, how on earth did he figure it out?! Things to note in NEWER VERSIONS: To thicken the hairs - its under render --> curves (not hair) --> strip. Mix rgb is just mix and change float to color. Hair node is curve tangent, like someone mentioned below. Turn world strength way down (mine is .5) In particle edit, make sure children is checked and steps are 5, under "tool" tab. Try different light strengths. Pay close attention to what he does, the light is really what makes work. Looks like it works up to 3.6.0. I swear it wasn't last night but now it is 😢 Whatever version, you use, make sure you can find "shader to rgb" and "specular bsdf" before you start.

[@Newt5499]

Doin the good work, updating info. Thanks, i'm sure you'll save a lot of people from a few nights of frustration.

[@Rakadeja]

This needs to be pinned asap

[@easybeeee]

world strength tip helped me a lot! I had to turn it down even further to .1 to see shadows

[@cihangirkoroglu]

You have to enable the children option in the top right corner of the window before painting your strands, then the preview is working in "Particle Edit"

[@joshuacadogan5174]

Thank you!

[@SalemFU]

ugh you have no idea how much i appreciate this... when you're new to something, you have no idea what you dont have any idea of, so looking up a solution becomes a problem in itself lol

[@maximumdinosaur]

Thanks so much

[@elguari]

thank you!!

[@leacabiron5362]

thank you so much I searched this for so long T.T

[@itselliexoxx]

If anyone cant find the mix rgb node, just add the "mix" Node and then change the setting from float to colour which will then turn the mix node into the mix rgb node

[@leacabiron5362]

thank you!

[@cloudlove1]

but what about the shader to rgb node? It doesn't exist in 3.6 :(

[@himitsumonban]

Aside from a neat shader, this video has some excellent insights into how Evee works with respect to shadows, translucency, and other details.

[@micmacha]

I was skeptical, but this honestly one of the best hair tutorials I've ever seen. Thanks.

[@Sam_North15]

Tutorials like these is what keeps me going.

[@RyanMalmDesign]

The approach of having just 1 control hair per clump and the material knowledge shared here is amazing. This provided the perfect approach that didn't crash my rig trying to render. Thank you so much!

[@saiyanghost3753]

Can't wait for part 2! This tuotrial is so detailed, and looks actually like the original thing!

[@michaelwerkov3438]

god, your cell shaded work with blender, and the fact that your shaders are explained and sold and shared with the community, is world class quality, both the work AND yourself!

[@MoogieSRO]

How does he get a bunch of strands to show up once switching from 'None' to 'Interpolated' at 4:15? When I do it nothing happens... EDIT: Fixed it. They were invisible in Particle Edit mode because I needed to press 'N', go into 'Tool', go into 'Viewport Display' and tick the 'Children' tickbox.

[@123newjersey3]

I love people like you who help everyone else srtuggling with the same issues. I bet you are well liked in your social life.

[@Jellibunn]

@@123newjersey3 Super solid tip - thank you. One quick thing though - in the N Menu it's actually in Tool > Options > Viewport Display. Options wasn't open for me by default (possibly my fault lmao)

[@dogukandmrl]

Thank you so much

[@mun3698]

You are a lifesaver! Thank you

[@markkocsicska2590]

Thank you.

[@eric3dee]

Amazing deconstruction of an Arcane style hair shader! Can't wait to see more! I'd love to see you go a little further in terms of how you go about rigging/skinning the hair as well. Looking forward to Part 2 :)

[@ktograph1138]

any luck how to rig a hair particle system?

[@TheFuzzypuddle]

Great tut! Arcane is the catalyst driving me back into animating. I fell in love with the art style and the way Fortiche combined 2D & 3D to create a beautiful and unique look. At least to me it is unique. I haven't watched a ton of anime or other animations. I've been away from animation and blender for about a year. When I opened blender I realized that I have forgotten everything. I was back to figuring out how to move my view around with the middle mouse button! I'll probably need to run through the donut tut again just to relearn menus and hotkeys 🤨 I used to work more with realistic styles, especially when it comes to hair, but like I said Arcane's style is so inspirational. Now I want to learn more stylized techniques. Your 2 videos about Arcane are great! I wish you would have been able to make more videos specific to Arcane, but I appreciate the videos you were able to make. Cheers!

[@darkmallet7233]

After 8 long months the legends have returned, I am so hyped.

[@mauricmauric8367]

For Blender, the first and last tutorial we need. Cause it's PERFECT!

[@The_Toonimator]

I just stumbled upon this and found the title intriguing cuz I've never seen or heard about an "Arcane Style Hair" tutorial. I've only seen sculpts, texturing, etc. This was was very inspiring, exciting and educational to convert me to using Blender. You literally got the base look of the Arcane style hair in less than 10 minutes before all the detail control. Thank you for so generously sharing your knowledge and techniques. I will be turning on notifications on your channel. Your Kickstarter game looks amazing too. Will have to support it on Kickstarter.

[@RealJohnnyAngel]

i was skeptical at first, but as it went on i became much more impressed.

[@maciejbolec8888]

Their back!

[@paolorenzoveluz3584]

If you ever had trouble finding the Hair info node in the latest blender versions. it is now called the Curves info node.

[@santitabnavascues8673]

If you need a single value for a rgb mix, for example, you can use a map range node instead of a black and white color ramp to accentuate the contrast, which is more efficient

[@ashucloud]

I followed this tutorial but my version is looking so different, everything was looking fine until I added specular, it was looking off but i still kept doing it hoping it might end up looking good in the end but its not. I have spent alot of time and I dont want that to go waste, can someone please help me? I am using 3.6 btw

[@Lgend_Beats]

yooo YOU GUYS ARE THE REAL MVP OF NPR BLENDER COMMUNITY

[@krysidian]

SO GLAD to have you back! Your series helped me tons with NPR and I'm super excited for this series.

[@simonthedigger99]

this is one of the most unique and amazing tutorials for shaders props to you

[@micmacha]

Technically a BSDF is a shader wrapped in a closure, so the actual renderer instead of the modeler can evaluate it. It's really important for ray-tracing engines like Cycles, solves a lot of old inconsistency problems.

[@johntnguyen1976]

OMG have loved you guys since Le Gouffre...so glad to see you post again...and it didn't disappoint!

[@RomboutVersluijs]

You can also change the duplicate settings in the preferences. You can then set what data is duplicates when you duplicate a mesh object

[@john_wafer]

Thanks a lot! It is awesome to see channel that focuses on stylized stuff.

[@kurisutofusan]

Every time I watch one of your videos, I'm amazed at how clear you are and how much knowledge you send over to us!

[@stardemy]

Great tutorial!! The materials differences explanation is also a PLUS! Thank you!

[@fittyyen]

This comes out as I'm getting to the point where I'm trying to figure out how to do the hair on the character I'm working on! Gonna try my best!

[@KittensAndElves]

This is amazing, thank you guys! I was seeking for the best approach for hair for my comic, and I think this one will be great. I'm studying it now and trying some custom modifications. The first one was adding the Separate RGB to Diffuse and Specular to make it work well with the lights of your commercial shader, that I'm already using.

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Awesome! Yes we did skip that part in this tutorial to keep it light, but we also use our system of RGB lights to achieve light linking. Glad you made the setup on your own!

[@user-windlilk]

@@LightningBoyStudio I tried adding SeparateRGB to the original node but the effect was not good. Can you please post the node about the RGB lighting link? Thanks in advance.

[@PugDungeon]

I've been looking for content like this for years! Seeing you share your work has finally been that push I'd needed to get serious about learning blender. This video may be a bit beyond my current skill level. But I look forward to trying this out for myself!

[@lemmeknow9584]

6:17 oh my god 🤦‍♀️ i was trying to solve this problem for months and couldn’t find ANYTHING on the net; thank you so much

[@shantem-c1744]

THIS Oml I have been searching so hard for a blender arcane tutorial thank you so much for making this!

[@FynnGB]

Your content is invaluable! Really appreciate all the effort you put into developing the techniques in the first place and then into explaining and sharing it! All the best!

[@Sheogorat667]

I had this idea of making comic with 3d assets and arcane really fits that style so this truly helps! Thanks a lot!

[@MoCo_Filmmaker]

SO HAPPY YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER TUTORIAL OUT! Love these, and you're one of the few doing this style of tutorial. :)

[@Ivan-ru1hx]

TNice tutorials is absolutly the best video of the world you expaining skills are good and it was a honor to see tNice tutorials vid well done

[@Nikuloki]

God! You know how to surprise! Thank you very much! You are my heroes guys!

[@jeremypajotart]

One of the best tutorials I have seen! Thank you very very much for this quality 👌🙏

[@ThadeousM]

Bro this is fantastic thanks so much! The extra demonstrations really helped me to understand the difference between the diffuse, transparnt and translucent shaders

[@MilkBanana]

Man's literally reading my mind

[@b.f.5705]

Great, thank you very much for your great tutorial. It helped me a lot.Greetings from Bavaria.

[@BearWeiter]

Fantastic! And the world of Tidal Blades is so beautiful and inspiring.

[@pipeliner8969]

maybe you have to remake this soon with the new hair workflow on blender

[@JowAnderCC]

Got like 70% the style, but it serves me, thank you

[@danitufeld9469]

Amazing guys!!! thank you so much for this David!!! your last toon shader tutorial is till one of my favorite tutorial series, that I implemented in many of me work. Cant wait to dive in...

[@Khlyn]

Bro , are u a king of 3d ? why this tut is so good ?

[@loatheroach]

you guys are doing gods work with these tutorials

[@norph1975]

I can't siply discribe how awesome it is! Intro looks magnificent, and you decide to publish secret of creation process, damn... And the boardgame also looks cool, I pumped!

[@MBMEMDDD]

This tutorial taught me that your LBshader makes it so you can't search with the search bar in the shader editor.

[@LightningBoyStudio]

A bug you mean? Can you try uninstalling and reinstalling the add-on? The search bar should work fine.

[@MBMEMDDD]

@@LightningBoyStudio Nah, only thing that works is disabling it. There's also this thing where the LBS nodes don't exist but everything still works fine pre 3.0 blender. Guess I'll just boot up 2.93 when I need to use it.

[@LightningBoyStudio]

If you are using Blender 3.0 and up, you need to use the latest version of the LBS shader (2.1.1) If you are still using 2.1, then yes it won't work properly in Blender 3.0

[@MBMEMDDD]

@@LightningBoyStudio Nice I didn't know there was a 2.1.1, thanks.

[@human_of_homosapiens_]

you are a powerful galactic wise blender entity giving us this powerful weapon of knowledge to further our progress in the infamous battle against default cube. *Thank you. Really. I humbly Thank you. This helps my project a lot. edit: finishing the hairstyle on my model, it look so good I did a lil dance

[@maryisazombie]

YES! I've been dying for someone to make a tutorial like this!

[@brandonjacksoon]

You are absolutely the best! Thank you for teaching us =) I love your tutorials and awesome style!

[@leacabiron5362]

Hello guys, I have some questions, how could you attach it to a head after make the hair, to make some hair simulation as he did ? And thanks you so much for this tutorial it's incredible!

[@billamu]

Can't wait for Part 2 - This is a brilliant tutorial series!

[@KallanKeogh]

You may not see this, but if it is at all possible, a break down on how you rig Armour pieces would be wonderfully appreciated

[@yuwish6320]

After setting hairs Emission Number to 1, to get a single hair in the center of the face more easily, under Source in the Emission section, set hairs/face to 1. It will center that single hair in the center of the face without editing anything.

[@moonlaiy4280]

God PLEASE make a Blender 4.0 update for Arcane Hair

[@PDilling]

Well, for me, the hair only shows up in sculpt mode, so that is very interesting. XD

[@jimsartblog]

i always learn so much from your tutorials, thank you so much for sharing!! can't wait to try making some arcane hair ^-^

[@activemotionpictures]

Marvelous! You guys did it again!

[@graythistle]

Wow, this is great. It works really well with curly hair, too. I tweaked the settings a bit to match my 2D painterly style, which I've always wanted to convert to 3D. Thank you so much for this tutorial!!

[@WalkerRileyMC]

In later versions, if you're still having issues with object mode and particle mode not matchings, click off/on Children under the viewport display in the tools menu while in particle mode. Blender 3.6, at least, has some refresh issues apparently.

[@Dr_ad_agency]

You should start a blender course

[@dinopuff7354]

Great tutorial! though ill admit i found the tangent normals really unreliable, the normals could sometimes be flat out incorrect and would warp around when changing the camera view, like thats a blender problem not with this video of course 😅, but if anyone else has that problem try using a normal map node set to object space as it gets a very similair look while staying consistent. make sure the light your using has contact shadows on too of course. Though that wont work with speculiar lights

[@user-windlilk]

Thanks for reminding I am on the same version as you， I’m using normal map node set to object space but it doesn't have the same effect, can you share the project files or video or nobe image？Thanks in advance.😘

[@riisezz0]

Me watching this: c: Blender Foundation: Let's change all that...

[@Starbat88]

Your videos are just packed with so much incredible information. Thanks so much for these explanations!

[@artofjhill]

very well done, thank you

[@AmeJouten]

I'm watching this like I have ever successfully made a character

[@TheUraniumCore]

Now this is good KZbin content.

[@ShaefferStudios.Animation]

THIS IS SO GOOOOOOOOOD! I love this style! i hope we get to use the lightning boy shader on this!

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Haha, thanks so much! There'll be some lightning boy shader action in the next video. :)

[@ShaefferStudios.Animation]

@@LightningBoyStudio WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE YOU GUYS!!!!!

[@alejandrorincon6930]

Thanks, I've been looking for this for a long time!

[@ism6938]

amazing

[@pawz212]

THIS VIDEO IS A GOD SEND OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@kevinlopez-vo3wv]

You are the godblender sr

[@ReimaginedSkies]

This tutorial is great, I am running into a problem though. Even after applying blend settings none of the diffuse or transparency nodes are having an effect. edit: Nevermind I am stupid, I didn't have the right material selected for the particle system under "render" settings. This tutorial worked perfectly! thank you so much!

[@baldwinnigatovf8095]

This is amazing sir, thank you very much! This will make my short film this year very great!

[@josiahschuett705]

This is the best! Fingers crossed for a tutorial for that opening shot!

[@deadhouse3889]

This is brilliant, dude.

[@Bob99ish]

Love this series, keep it up! I want to know mooooore.

[@Jamie-wh3kd]

Incredible job. You're so smart.

[@elisa1536]

Can't wait for the next video!!!

[@truemore6591]

So good to see your video,it’s a great work,I’m your little fans from Taiwan

[@GuillaumeGdr]

great job, very inspiring

[@kllidea7675]

OHH damn was waiting it so long, rly thanks you for ur great work!

[@sndosc]

lovely! can't wait for part 2.

[@Simon-lc9mh]

This is amazing period

[@TheLolilol321]

That is a crazy good result. The process just makes so much sense in video form, had this been any other format I would've discarded it as black magic. There are so many (at least to me) obscure ways of working and doing hair that would have taken me quite some time to research and apply. Thank you for sharing.

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Thanks Lonke! We never would have thought hair particles could be stylized this much either, until we saw it in action in Arcane and decided to do more research. Glad our findings were helpful to you!

[@DestroyerV]

Here from reddit. You are AMAZING!!!

[@jehoshqwe]

Thank you!

[@blackyonbi]

How can i obtain such power of observation, whimsical lighting boy who happens to own a Studio?

[@mrFryd4y]

Fortiche actually renders everything completely unlit and creates the lighting in Comp using normals and rotoscoping.

[@LightningBoyStudio]

Oh, good to know! There does seem to be a fair amount of manual work involved.

[@mrFryd4y]

@@LightningBoyStudio I found that quite satisfying since a lot of people asked how to achieve this, looking for a technical solution. But there still is no shortcut. They just have amazing artists and a lot of budget and time.

[@petkoganev2017]

cool and inventive way of doing it. Bravo, sir!

[@vincgordo5861]

i've worked on this thing for months... well done! and it's not only on EEVEE i guess (no use of "shader to RGB" for example)

[@splice1285]

So I was on your profile the other day wondering if you'd put out another video sometime soon.. and also I've been searching for a stylized hair tutorial for Blender... Are you spying on me? Please keep doing so if I get the exact tuts I need.. lmao. Great work