How to make Afro & Dreadlocks Styled Hair in Blender 3.5 (Tutorial)

[@NinoDefoq]

Do you like Blender 3.5 so far?😍

[@PRINCE-kl5io]

YA

[@joshualamou]

These are not dread locs this is just coiled hair. The term is afro curls or coils. Another = Afro textured curls or coils. You did amazing but these are not locs. Frizzy Afro hair is very diverse. Looking up black hairstyles is ok to start with but really understand the different terminologies just not out of respect but to diversify your own profolio and better teach the varieties of hair/black hair. Taken the time to do this was great so thankyou for that. You are very talented.

[@evanlane1690]

Great point! I'm a white artist trying to find resources and tutorials on creating different textured hair styles and it's really hard to find resources that are accurate and using current tech. Love this tutorial, btw, but I was trying to find a loc tutorial using the new geonodes hair pipeline, and still haven't found it.

[@akinyemitomiwa3337]

Has to be the most unnecessary comment I’ve seen today

[@immanismjr5606]

@@akinyemitomiwa3337They are right though. And it’s something that should be addressed

[@jajoy_art]

@@akinyemitomiwa3337 no, your comment was.

[@ladyville3]

@@immanismjr5606being anal, also is something that needs to be addressed now a days also. I’m black and can understand people won’t know everything about groups, I’m Central American black living in the United States and their is difference between black groups here that I could easily get mad at someone for assuming something about me because my skin looks like theirs, or I can just not be anal to everything. Sensitivity is a dangerous weakness.

[@virgilhawkins3390]

Hey black guy chiming in here: i really appreciate the way you talk about our kind of hair and show it kindness and respect. You obviously put time and genuine thought into giving the style justice. You've got my sub :) (I will say that I used to have like, waist-length dreads myself and while this isn't really dread-like, it is still good style.)

[@NinoDefoq]

Thank you so much! I have been expanding my hair typed more and more recently and want to make a tutorial on actual dreadlocks very soon. I love the styles a lot and think there should be more tutorials on them 100%! Stay tuned 😇

[@funlearningwithyagirlmiamo4876]

I'd love to see dread locs! Im pretty new to blender, but i love your products so far. I just ask if you could do a more step by step approach, like in the cornrows tut, you start off in a mode that is different from when we first open the file and also when you say "Just append your head to this file or this file to your head.." As a newbie, i kinda need to see that done. You have excellent products, just as a newbie i find them to be extremely difficult to apply to my models@@NinoDefoq

[@imvisuals215]

Not dreads but still a very informative tutorial and a foundation to build upon. We would LOVE if you did an actual dreads tutorial. It is the one thing our culture is missing in the marketplace. Thank you for sharing and looking forward to more teachings.

[@lokyloky3420]

I went through several guides before this one, but yours is the most comprehensive , thank you!

[@NinoDefoq]

Appreciate that a lot!! Thank you 😇

[@Promeneur]

Exactly what I was hoping to find. Very good tutorial, which illustrates the power of the tool ! Encouraging. Many thanks from France

[@NinoDefoq]

Happy to hear that! Thanks a lot 😇

[@llovingkenny3780]

Thanks so much!! Been looking for a tutorial like this forever.

[@elvismorellidigitalvisuala6211]

Head texture is lovely! thanks for tutorial

[@NinoDefoq]

Cheers!

[@sebabatsomashego7988]

Wow, just wow!!!

[@pruephillip1338]

Been waiting for this - thanks. Now I can do 3.5 hair.

[@NinoDefoq]

Glad it helps, thanks!!

[@YazanCh]

THANKS ..

[@c2petion]

Love the hair. Now the only thing i want to know is how we might be able to sharpen up the hairline to give it a more barbershop look

[@1toutoune]

Your tutos are very cool! I really hope you will keep making and sharing new ones. Bravo and Thank you very much!!!

[@NinoDefoq]

Thanks a lot!

[@sebabatsolethabo6864]

thanks for the tutorial, gr8 stuff man

[@NinoDefoq]

Thank you!! 😇 glad you like it

[@lordnaps]

these aren’t really dreadlocks but insightful tutorial nonetheless 3.5 really made some improvements with the hair system

[@lordnaps]

do you know if hair dynamics is still a thing with these settings? to give the hair some animation

[@plus1gaming629]

underrated channel .. new Sub

[@NinoDefoq]

Thanks a lot!!! 😇

[@biggestonee]

Thank you for the tuto!!

[@bookworm4133]

For those working in eevee, go to render properties and look for "Curves" or "Hair". Set shape to strip. That should make the hair look thicker.

[@bookworm4133]

Adjusting the radius in Duplicate Hair Curves on the Side hair will help get rid of those annoying ear hairs.

[@NinoDefoq]

Thank you for the addition :)

[@TruthSurge]

Thanks for this. I needed the ending where you color it because mine didn't work. For some reason, Blender decided to add a SECOND hair system and that one had shorter hair and I was coloring that one and couldn't see the changes due to the FIRST white hair that was longer. I saw the part had 2 hair systems so when I deleted the old one... bam, I could see the new color finally. But question to anyone.. how can I copy/paste the hair system I have for this part to SEVEN other parts without just adding a curve to them all separately and adjusting length settings, etc? thx!

[@NinoDefoq]

Maybe you can trim the part of the mesh that has the hair (create a scalp of sorts) and duplicate it to your other parts. Then shinkwrap the scalp to the other models and the hair should follow the shape nicely.

[@TruthSurge]

@@NinoDefoq hmmm well, my prob is I can't get hair short enough but also I am so new I don't know how to get hair to point in same directly kind of flat. anyway... i'll learn. thx! I'll be in hospital for a day or two so I can watch some tuts.

[@Ro3D_DigitalInsights]

This tutorial is really helpful, thanx!

[@s3ij4s]

Excelente, justo lo que estaba necesitando, para entender Hair

[@MrRamzapr]

great tut thanks!

[@azmalenjazpublisher5204]

You are creative, thank you

[@NinoDefoq]

That's so kind, thank you!!

[@kxr1725]

Only recently discovered you but I love your content, it is so helpful. I'm not a POC but I'm creating a POC character, and I was wondering how you would go about making cornrows that are then tied into a ponytail? My thinking is to use the braid geometry node you provided in another video for the braid, and then add another empty hair that I simply groom into looking like the hair of the scalp going into the braid itself - and then repeat that for every "row" so to speak. Because I'm not sure how else one could create such a hairstyle, since the braid doesn't only attach in one place, it uses hair from a whole section/row of your scalp. Then there's the fact that I want them to end up in a ponytail, so I figured it'd be easier to just fake the scalp-to-braid thing than to actually create or use a geometry node that would look like or actually function as a cornrow. Regardless, it's really hard to find POC hair tutorials so it's nice to see you make a video on hair such as dreads!

[@NinoDefoq]

Thank you so much! Stay tuned, I'm trying to figure out a nice way 😁

[@kxr1725]

@@NinoDefoq You are so kind! ;-; No worries if you don't have the time or energy, really. Will keep an eye out for your videos regardless 🙏

[@NinoDefoq]

@@kxr1725 Thank you! That means a lot. I got something that I think you're going to enjoy :) I'll make a video on it today or tomorrow. Hopefully it is what you are looking for!

[@NinoDefoq]

I made a free cornrow generator that may help! Have a look: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJ3coJipbdZ9eLc 😁

[@AleksanderShevchuk]

very cool tut! thanx

[@NinoDefoq]

Thanks!

[@himfrfr1187]

Ahh a man of the culture

[@NinoDefoq]

:)

[@kenzietownsend6644]

8:49. Set hair curve profile didn't change in EEVEE but was able to use and adjust in Cycles. Just, if it happens switch render engines.

[@NinoDefoq]

Thanks for that! 😇

[@yoyoavv]

THANKS🎉😊

[@mikerusby]

why so many guide hairs. surely the point is make less guide hairs and then interpoate between them? The one thjng missing from this new system is a paint modfier like in xgen, ie the abilty to sculpt the indivdual hairs, not just the guides. You have to collapse all the modifiers before you can do this ita a really essential feature as just using modifers is not enough

[@philthepanic]

Whoop!

[@AKno47372]

might be too much but could you make a video on how to make fade haircut inn blender 3.5 cuz its harder than thought

[@naytbreeze]

Can you do one on longer more matted hanging dreadlocks?

[@ShortShortLessons]

It was going great until i snapped the surface in the attach hair curves section. I can not understand how to get the uv's working...

[@mica.motion]

No dreadlocks here

[@NinoDefoq]

I'm sure you can tweak some settings to get it to your liking! :)

[@umarcga7823]

I can't find surface uv map eventhough I have created two!!!?? and typing the name is doing nothing!!!

[@NinoDefoq]

Hi! Make sure that you added the UV Maps to the object you also added the empty hair to. Then, in the hair property panel make sure to set the surface object to the same object and match the UV Map there.

[@StevenCookFX]

Ok nice but video is blury and you said density when what you clicked on was distance.

[@lupinSapiens]

can anyone tell me why blender lags anytime I try to use hair system? even with the lowest density. can't even comb. I'm using Asus ROG Strix, RTX 3080, 32 Gb Ram..

[@nigeldurrant3563]

Not Dread locks, Great tutorial, what @joshualamou said.

[@naytbreeze]

Great video . How would you then export this to unreal engine? Been having issues doing that.

[@sazikanebaldimor2386]

my Blender 3.5 does not let me select uv-map hair. why?

[@NinoDefoq]

Make sure that you have a surface object selected in the curve object settings, and that the selected object has UV maps. Also make sure that the object you add your empty hair to, has the UV map you are trying to use and that you named everything correctly. Hope that helps!

[@sazikanebaldimor2386]

@@NinoDefoq Sort of. Thank you. I added it to a MB Lab created humans head. It had a few UV Maps i could select, none of them named Hairs. How do I add my own UV Map to a surface?

[@RatQueen3D]

The file has been deleted. Can You pls reupload it?

[@its_ghislain]

How can I get the the set hair profile Assets

[@QuantayPeoples]

Coming from a black man... thank you.

[@user-wj2ez2zo3m]

Is it possible to translate blender's built-in geometric node assets?

[@NinoDefoq]

I'm not sure what you mean?

[@user-wj2ez2zo3m]

@@NinoDefoq Hair Geometric nodes It looks like it can replace the old hair, since it is a built-in module is it possible to translate into more than one language? I wonder if there is an implementation solution?

[@NinoDefoq]

@@user-wj2ez2zo3m Do you mean translating the geometry node interface to a different language?

[@user-wj2ez2zo3m]

@@NinoDefoq By that I mean translating geometric nodes that are already built into the main version, such as hair

[@ysthereal]

Hello, can you send me the file of that project? I really want to do it but I speak Portuguese and so I can't understand everything you say to follow the steps correctly.

[@NinoDefoq]

Hi, I'm sorry but this is purely made for tutorial purposes.

[@ysthereal]

@@NinoDefoq I managed make the hair the error was in the UVmap, thanks, but I'm having trouble exporting it in OBJ or FBX to use on other platforms, how would you do it?

[@NinoDefoq]

@ysthereal to export it you'll have to turn it into a mesh. You can add a realize instances node right at the end of the geometry node tree and then apply the geometry node modifier and see if that works.

[@ysthereal]

@@NinoDefoq I will test now. Thank you very much!!! 🙏💖You helped me a lot, I turned on the bell to be aware of the next videos. 🔔

[@NinoDefoq]

@@ysthereal Cheers!!!

[@smallroomartist]

There's no dreadlocks in this tutorial... please learn the difference as our (Black hair, my hair, my loc'd hair) is both about beauty and culture.

[@llovingkenny3780]

i’m almost positive he’s showing a way to make dreads. This is a foundation for making dreads, if you know how to use blender, you can use this tutorial to kink the hair THEN make locs

[@imvisuals215]

@@llovingkenny3780yeah but the title is deceiving. That’s an IF. If he isn’t teaching what he is advertising then he shouldn’t put it in the title. So a good tut but if it were about dreads it would have been clutch!

[@RykerArt]

Bro just shut up

[@criMsonRD]

can I know your pc specs please?

[@NinoDefoq]

Sure, I'm using an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core processor and Nvidia Geforce RTX 3070 GPU. My general RAM is 16 Gb. Hope that helps!

[@criMsonRD]

@@NinoDefoq thanks, I was asking cuz adjusting the curves was smoothy, it's all about the cpu

[@doomsdaytuther5095]

A lot of "really really" repeating but no dreadlocks. As for the Afro this just looks a mess m8

[@MRWIZE]

LOL These are NOT locks