Creating Eyebrows in Blender

[@NazarNoschenko]

Forgot to mention that when extruding the cage 8:00 make sure that the normals are correct, otherwise the binding in the last step won’t happen. Cheers!

[@TheClanOfHari]

How to check if normals are correct? How do I correct them if they are in wrong position

[@BrianLife]

Also around 6:54 7:00 , you select the "first point" so root doesn't move when adjusting the curves to not overlaps or intersect each other. I had to slow down the video to see this. Although I still don't know how he is moving the points in a Brush like a manner? can you explain how you are adjusting?

[@NazarNoschenko]

@@BrianLife For this I enabled proportional edit kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKbHlY2Lq5yAsKM

[@BrianLife]

​@@NazarNoschenko Thank you, yes, this videos helps. One thing, I notice you are de/selecting the first points, (so the roots dont move,) but when I do it and use Proportional editing, it's deselects the points. and everything moves, well, continuous, but basically, I cant keep the First point deselected. I can't seem to keep it so the points are protected from edits. Can you help?

[@NazarNoschenko]

@@BrianLife After selecting the first roots I hide them by pressing H

[@davidcripps3011]

Does anyone else get excited when they find a new brilliant Blender tutorial creator :-)

[@andresiglesias7494]

dude .. I have a new fav teacher, love it

[@dougalmeredith7754]

For anyone else who got stuck on the mesh deformer part, I fixed it by making a new cube using that instead (after adding more edge loops to it). I don't know what was wrong with the original 'Cage', maybe it had somehting to do with coming from a plane, and I made sure that all the hairs were inside the original cage too. But the new cage which was not made from a plane works perfectly.

[@noemialmeida1317]

Thank you so much! Worked for me too

[@peachteas]

If anyone had a problem with the mesh deform at 8:00 like me despite your normals being fine and your cage completely surrounding all your hairs, try bump up your precision in the Mesh Deform modifier to 7, it takes a minute or so to calculate, but that's what fixed it for me. YMMV

[@valentinaconte8626]

For me doesn't work anything. My normals are ok. I duplicate the plane. In edit mode , inside the duplicated plane, I extrude the vertex. then I select the eyebrows object and create modifier-mesh deform. After that I select the duplicated plane inside the field "Object". When I try to move the duplicated plane the eyebrows doesn't move. Where am I did wrong?

[@marikosusie]

Thank you so much !

[@valentinaconte8626]

Jack Sofo no... :'( I am stuck at this point since that moment. My file is waiting for me to keep going on.

[@valentinaconte8626]

@@Jack-ri1dc no... :'( I am stuck at this point since that moment. My file is waiting for me to keep going on.

[@squaidinkarts]

Thanks a lot

[@acyrus4032]

For those who are having a problem when adding the mesh deform and finding that the mesh isn't moving with the cage, click on the cage and go into edit mode. On the top, you'll see "mesh" alongside the other buttons of the toolbar. Click that, scroll down until you see normals, and then click flip. Now, when you're going to add mesh deform onto the eyebrows and parent the cage, it will work! You should flip the normals for the "plane" too when adding the surface deform and parenting the plane. It should then move in edit mode

[@tlilmiztli]

This is brilliant and looks so good man. Great even for realistic characters! Can you show some tips how you are making that gorgeous eyelashes too?

[@edvinas643]

if anybody is still having trouble with the deform modifiers - make sure you are using the MESH deform for eyebrows>cage and the SURFACE deform for cage>controller

[@BrianLife]

Ive went back to this tutorial so many times. I still cant get it!!! Ugh. I made a Mesh deformer for the Ebrows to the Cage and its Not deforming the cage. ugh... I go into edit mode and nothing happened .

[@mazingstudios]

You're an absolute boss.... Thanks so much for this!

[@AfroditeOhki1]

Aaaand now I'm using this to make eyelashes too. Amazing. Thank you so much for this tutorial!

[@linav4013]

to solve the problem with binding on 8:20 in my case creating a new cage (I made it from the cube and made it a little bit bigger) helped. и спасибо Вам, Назар, за туториал. от души просто

[@rafaeldlmedeiros]

thanks

[@ErikGreisson]

thanks! that did it for me as well

[@Tre_Di]

Thank you soooo much!

[@kokoko6544]

Thank you!!!!

[@3DArabianArtist]

welcome back Champ! Huge and cool video, it's actually on time. thanks man

[@_casg]

Wow this technique so awesome,

[@pushpakray8298]

Woooooooooooooooowwwwwww........mind is blown!!! Boommmmmmmmmm

[@RomboutVersluijs]

PS this really shows why your characters look so realistic sometimes. The amount of detail you put into them is mindblowing. Great tut man and sharing your knowledge with others!!!

[@RomboutVersluijs]

HOw does this act with animation and underlaying mesh and possible shape keys?

[@RomboutVersluijs]

hahaha ahh you showed it as well nice man!!!

[@tarisjan]

I waited so long for a new tutorial, thank you ❤️

[@Solomon_Amoasi972]

Good to have you back buddy

[@mishainutr]

great turtorial, much thanks for this!

[@williammiranda2268]

I'd be amazing a serie of tutorials about character creation, the complete pipeline, Cheers!

[@NazarNoschenko]

Yeah, it’s my goal eventually!

[@Murilogti]

Very Nice, thanks for tutorial.

[@TFHavingFun]

Was waiting for this one. Thank you for making those awesome hair related videos, among other awesome things of course.

[@taylahhhh]

If some of you have trouble with the mesh deform doesn't pick up the eyebrows, do this simple step.. re-create the cage from cube, no extrude, just subdivide it by using ctrl+R and edit as you see fit, and then up the precision level like 8 or something in mesh deform modifier. Also copying it to new blend just to be safe, at least it worked for me.. Hope it helps!

[@bongo10110]

that worked :)

[@tetsuooshima832]

Shared ! Genius ! I would have never ever thought of that, thanks a lot !

[@ProfessorOfHow]

Please... please.... please.... do a tut on how to create realistic human head hairs in eevee in blender 2.8 (including shading). Please, I request. Loving your explaining style.

[@E.A.M.]

This is genius and perfect! What a great solution!!

[@ThreeNugsTall]

This is absolutely GOLD! thank you so much for sharing it. 🙏🏾 Also, being greedy, but would love a tutorial on the dreads.

[@philmehrart]

Great tutorial, I've been trying out Houdini as well but for just getting some quick hair ideation done these workflows are gold. Have a sub sir

[@CHETcheteron]

Очень интересный способ, и главное не затратный для рендеринга. Автор молодец!

[@NixisI]

у меня при изменении меша перса меняется только орижин бровь, а вторая тупо зеркалится... хотя сетка и плейн привязана к мешу... что я делаю не так?

[@craveleaks8102]

Amazing work, Nazar. Blender is really amazing.

[@uzumakikyubi]

So awesome, thanks man this is so cool

[@uncleboby5952]

This is awesome! Ive been trying geonodes and particle systems but they dont pan out well for the eyebrows (its much better to draw them yourself) Im exited to try this out.

[@rikovladimir8655]

This is a really great advanced technique I only wish I had a drawing tablet

[@nekodificador]

Holy sh*t this is awesome.

[@hugofurtado2]

Sensacional. Suas técnicas são fantásticas. Abraço do Brasil.

[@GikePeterson]

Огонь!

[@FynnGB]

thanks a lot for this tutorial! it gives amazing results!

[@3Rton]

Simply but very nice. Good tip

[@shotsterwsg1610]

the last few min is mind blowing great job

[@MrVanKappen]

Wow, great tutorial. Thnx!

[@brismith70]

Nazar...I love this technique...you could use this for mustaches and beards, too. Great job!

[@Hellayia]

To all those who struggle with the mesh deform step at 8:00, use a lattice instead (you need to create a lattice mesh instead of the "cage" one and then link a lattice modifier to it the same way you would link a mesh deform as he shows in the vid.

[@Edifieth]

It's kind of working, but the eyebrow shape got all wonky when I parented it.

[@Hellayia]

@@Edifieth in this specific workaround you should parent both objects (the lattice and the eyebrow mesh) as "object keep transform" and not lattice so that as you say it doesn't deform in a wonky way. It's not the best solution but it's the closest workaround I know atm (since mesh deform modifier has issues in 2.81 and 2.82 in particular)

[@Hellayia]

I still have to check if this tutorial works fine in 2.9 as well, bc updating could maybe also be a good option instead

[@Edifieth]

@@Hellayia Thanks for the reply. Meanwhile I tired the original method but this time I converted the curves into Mesh then it worked, I'm super happy.

[@Hellayia]

@@Edifieth hey I will try that as well ty

[@fhunn4240]

Amazing bros, It's the greatest eyebrows making I ever seen, Can't wait to see your next tutorial.

[@reddaneali5997]

As a Maya user, i'm quite impressed !

[@sobreaver]

Thank you for this chill AS intellectual feeding WTF moment of splendid simplicity in complex demand.

[@DjTasteless]

wow! great approach! havent yet thought about it but seems the most clever way to achieve! 1000 thx!

[@Staviraa]

I admire you and all your work, seriously thank you so much for this kind of tutorials, are really usefull!

[@Yudit1999]

Thank you very much for sharing this man! Useful tips!

[@rdores22]

So cool , it is really helpfulThank You !

[@activemotionpictures]

Nazar, at 6:25 my head blew. WHAT? Thickness info surviving after a conversion?! Deng! you read a lot or really know your way into the software. Amazing video!

[@NazarNoschenko]

Thanks! I was also blown away when discovered this feature

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Actually doesnt really matter. You can simply adjust the bevel. You can also make a custom shape if you like. What is more amazing is that greace pencil is basically vector or vertice painting

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Not sure what he means by "thickness has been saved"??? It was just vertices, no thickness. He adds it himself by adding a bevel??

[@doko3000]

@@RomboutVersluijs he means the 'thickness' information of the Grease Pencil points survives the Convert to Path operation, becoming the 'radius' of the path points. So when you increase the path bevel, the tips of all strands have a tapering to them, like they did when they were grease pencil strokes, so a taper object isn't necessary.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

@@doko3000 Indeed, i thought the standard bevel would do that. It like they got a custom bevel shape applied just like a penstroke, thin thick thin

[@327eduardo]

I love your character !

[@JohnMervinChocolateThunder]

Not sure how I wasn’t subbed already! These are fantastic

[@BrunoCornelsen]

Incredible! Thanks!

[@ikervideira2559]

I'm really interested on the making of those Rastas, they look awesome

[@mikego2611]

Me too

[@toebeexyz]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6Hbi6ejodanrMU - Im pretty sure he used a similar technique in this video where he made braids. He defined the shape of the hair with curves then used a plugin called Hairnet to convert it into actual hair. : )

[@gugurunn]

thank you for your tutotial. I can follow every steps . love this

[@JC-ov8ko]

Beautiful thank you. I’ll be diving into this ASAP 🤟🏽

[@andresiglesias7494]

There is something missing here, lets say you have to animate the character and you will do it using 0 subdivisons or 1, to make it run real time, and your rigged your eyebrows using level 4 subdivision, it wont work because the poly count will change, to fix that I duplicated the Mesh deform modifier the number of levels my model have (when render, 6 subdivision) and I bind each one of those modifiers using the sub level just for that one, character mesh sub 1: mesh deform 1 bind, character mesh sub 2: mesh deform 2 bind, and so on, I hope it makes sense. Plus if youre using blender 2.9 youll have to make the CAGE mesh a little bigger so all the vertices are inside, if you just duplicate the controller and extrude it wont work, you have to move the face from behind the hair a little back, also the "select first" only will work if you made all the strokes in the same direction, lets say from rigth to left, if you made them from one side to the other the first and last gonna be different, I hope it makes sense guys, this is an awesome tut

[@MUHIL]

Thanks a lot dude!

[@CruxRiajuu]

Dude I have never seen people use the grease pencil like this. That's an awesome idea.

[@carloscaldeira4448]

Amazing Blender and cong for the artist

[@leonard7591]

This is great, thanks!!

[@mamadouminta]

Yeah!!!! Thank you! Can you a tutorial for the eyelash too. Thank you

[@SCB-245]

amaizing tutorial! Very usefull, tnx for it. Would be nice to see how did yo create eyelash.

[@thebabou1844]

Thank you for this tutorial!

[@jas-jr3rv]

amazing!! very very good result. you should show us skin next! and maybe a modeling timelapse

[@jarmadax]

Whoa! Found this after struggling with hair particle system for hours and just not getting the eyebrows look good. Totally going to try this method instead. Thanks!

[@caol95]

holy shet, that´s amazing

[@cavalate2969]

Дякую, Назаре, за гарний урок. Будьте ласкаві, продовжуйте! ;) Натхнення!

[@pkeod]

This is a great guide!

[@levelchanger468]

Love it. Absolutely very helpful tutorial. Subscribed n liked & saved it to my playlist for watching it time & again. Lots of love and respect from West Bengal , India.

[@NeverTooLate_23]

This is an awesome tutorial. Thank you!

[@mastjappa]

Very nice technique! I do feel that the realistic style clashes with the cartoon style of the character but awesome share thanks!

[@siliconvillager]

Awesome technique! Thank you

[@lazy9271]

genious!

[@joakin8535]

Quality content.

[@alexbitsadze4332]

amazing tip Nazar. thanks!

[@maurorodriguesyotube]

great job. I did not know your work, but now you have become a reference. If you create a course in character modeling, I will certainly buy it.

[@charcheli4364]

gracias!! mas video así por favor, saludos desde Chile

[@bett3762]

wow~ beautiful man!

[@dreamsprayanimation]

This is much easier and in my opinion more efficient than fiddling around with particles.

[@misao1025]

Вау такие брови реалистичные, спасибо за урок! И у вас прекрасный английский

[@NixisI]

у меня при изменении меша перса меняется только орижин бровь, а вторая тупо зеркалится... хотя сетка и плейн привязана к мешу... что я делаю не так?

[@zapfsaeule2]

Very good and explained so cearly, thank yiu!

[@scottlee38]

Nice work!

[@Groffili]

No cheap stuff like putting jpeg textures on it. That's the real thing! That high class thing! Didn't expect anything less from you. What an absolutely phantastic tutorial! There's just one tiny thing that's not completely amazing about your stuff: there isn't enough of it! ;) So, how about a tutorial on the way you texture your skin?

[@Hiroshi_1YT]

Amazing.Ive been inspired as of lare to get into Digital 3d modeling and im not too sure where to start off for practice.My laptops a bit well bad so things get a bit delayed when using blender.I love this model and the eybrows.

[@luckyducky7819]

If anyone's having issue with the "bind to cage" part, try to use a cube instead of duplicating the plane. And if you can't see your brow when you render, check to see if it has an animation attached to it.

[@tamunachagunava1442]

Great tutorial, Thank you! Can you make another video for eyelashes too?

[@joaopedrocamara2002]

Man that's awesome, so creative. Nazar what about the eyelids? How is your workflow for modeling it??

[@vijeshktly]

Awesome...

[@ZacharyAghaizu]

Nice new method! 8:20 the cage doesn't attach and normal are fine

[@ZacharyAghaizu]

Solved it! After a day. Make sure you apply transforms to delta so that they are on zero and the origin to geometry

[@AlejandroMorales-cx2mh]

@@ZacharyAghaizu what do you even mean? to delta?

[@3Rton]

Also any tips for brush setting tweaks? I get way more marker like results even though I'm pretty sure I had the same brush and size/strength. I wonder if they've tweaked the default stuff since this. Also how to make that hair texture next plz

[@emilevdb3259]

Thanks i learnt alot :)

[@thibautsartre3710]

Thank you so much for this.

[@blueguy5764]

Thank you for this. Any tip for the eyelash? How do you bind it to the eyelid to follow the expressions.

[@BiBi-mu2jx]

This video is amazing!! LOVE IT💗 I have a question tho.. I'm a newbie using blender and I was wondering how to import those eyebrows to the character I made 😭 Does the Eye brow file format supposed to be a Obj or a Fbx? I really appreciate your great tutorials Thank you so much :)

[@knucklesbyname]

thank you so much, man... thank you thank you thank you

[@ieptran8592]

Very cool man!!

[@Akooel]

realy good job!

[@manokmanok2091]

Thank a lot for this sir!

[@netneedingsystems2318]

sick! thanks for sharing!

[@jayhouse2434]

Nice tutorial, How do you get to make the pen pressure to work. I use XP-PEN Star 04, works fine in Krita but no response in blender.

[@Christina_Solodovnikova]

Здравствуйте, Назар! Спасибо большое за видео урок! Подскажите пожалуйста, после уже привязки бровей к персонажу, почему то брови не отображаются на рендере. Я уже несколько часов потратила на то, чтобы все сделать вновь и вновь. Результат такой же бровей после рендеринга нет. Может быть вопрос тупой, но я уже отчаялась , поэтому пишу вам. Помогите пожалуйста, какой может быть косяк?

[@valentinaconte8626]

I am stuck in minute 8.20. For me doesn't work anything. My normals are ok. I duplicate the plane. In edit mode, inside the duplicated plane, I extrude the vertex. then I select the eyebrows object and create modifier-mesh deform. After that, I select the duplicated plane inside the field "Object". When I try to move the duplicated plane the eyebrows don't move. Where am I did wrong?