Modeling for Animation 07 - Modeling Polygon Hair!

[@Dikko]

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[@3danmensional0000]

I knew you would have something about hair. You’re one of the only people that actually tells everyone to bring down the subdivisions of the hair and showed us too… that’s why I love this channel. These are the type of videos I go back to time and time again. I love you.

[@BigMoneyPauper]

This is the most helpful blender tutorial series I have ever followed. Cant thank you enough.

[@Dikko]

You're very welcome! Im happy you have found them useful

[@nijelbbarkus9753]

after 3 years of learning blender by just messing around and trying new things i feel like a have just been given proper job training, best humanoid topology tutorials hands down. Thank you so much for making all of these for free.

[@Dikko]

My pleasure :). Thanks for watching!

[@victorAgain00]

Bruh, I've been making hair in blender for over a year now, but it just never felt right. Everything you just did in this video just felt like a lifehack. I'm so relieved! Thank you bruh!!👏

[@Dikko]

Hope it proves useful!

[@filmlixtv7914]

I like how show us the way you do it but encourage us to to try it ourselves and learn something rather than just copying what you do! Nice K. A. Walkthrough as always!

[@Dikko]

Thanks! Going step by step for this video didnt feel like the right way.

[@crazykarthikm9453]

Frankly, your tutorials are better than most of the paid blender courses!

[@Dikko]

Thanks! I always got annoyed when the best stuff was locked behind a paywall, or even worse, looked good on the preview videos, then you pay for it and the rest was shit :P. So hoping to at least offer some proper knowledge on things with this series.

[@alan112223]

So true.

[@sundownmusictrends9784]

King of retopology

[@crazyanimator5331]

if you want to learn how to make a character this are the only videos you need thanks a lot its very helpfull

[@Dikko]

Glad I could help

[@samohickey]

"All that kind of shit that takes time to do." Liked, Subscribed, rang that bell! Hahaha! I am an official fan now.

[@andrewceco5435]

5 gold stars. incredible as always

[@cedra6770]

dikko you’re a damn genius, thank you for this series so much

[@Dikko]

My pleasure! thanks for watching!

[@Reikha1987]

The best think i picked from this was. 1- not constrain yourself to only one method. 2- not everything has to be made a super fancy new tech way, basic modeling can carry you a long way

[@chaosstripe9446]

Thousandth like! This series is great.

[@Dikko]

Cheers!

[@ちゃこる-n4z]

I love your tutorial videos!

[@Dikko]

Thanks!

[@oswynfaux]

Very nice, I am just about caught up, finishing up the re-topo on the head and attaching it to the body now. Took me all weekend to do the body and the head, keeped fighting the width of the head and how far apart the eyes were on the drawing I was referencing, had to made a few design compromises along the way.

[@Dikko]

Thats the good thing about reference you can choose whether or not to follow it exactly once you're modeling in 3D

[@jitone1]

I think i was using 8 photos as reference... plz feel pitty for me. LOL nothing ever matched up.

[@praetosstuff8230]

Can't wait for you to cover clothes

[@realjames1]

Really makes the head pop

[@Dikko]

Hair can make or break a character design :)

[@2DBrando]

Hey dikko, you are by far my favourite internet person 💪 this is without doubt the most help character tutorial series I've watch it so helpful, and you always make me laugh. Can't thank you enough for these mate. Are you going to go into texturing and rigging?

[@Dikko]

Thanks man! There are plans for both :)

[@LouSan]

Thank you so much Dikko!! This is epic!

[@getrekt8365]

Hey man, awesome series! One question since you know your stuff around rigging: how would you approach facial hair (beard and moustache) on a stylized male character? Would you retopologize it all together with the face or retopo the face and facial hair separately and then "combine it" with rigging? I think the second way is the correct one but i would like to hear your opinion on this.

[@Dikko]

Nah seperate meshes for the beard and mustache, then rig it up with the appropriate joints, depending on how fancy the beard is

[@DonWippo1]

One of the things that happen quickly when using Bezier Curves is that you end up placing way more strands than you need, adding noise to the result. This may result in a "noodly look", where each strand is visually seperate. (With normal transfers and so on there are ways to circumvent that depending on your shading) So personally I have gone away from using them for these reasons. However it is probably the fastest way to do hair and can give you nice results nonetheless. On that note I really like how you haven been emphasizing that different tools work for different purposes and different people throughout this entire series of tutorials.

[@aaronrolfeart]

Really helpful video! quick question, were you watching Horrible Histories for a sec there at 12:19 ?

[@Dikko]

Yea!

[@aaronrolfeart]

@@Dikko boss! Their parodies are brilliant!

[@yvesmolina]

So informative ... bravo and thank you

[@-Songbird]

DIKKO HALP!!! When I convert the Beziers to meshes, they come out with WAY too many polygons. Even when I lower the resolution, it simply reduces the number of faces wrapping *_around_* the circumference, but the faces running the length of the strand are many, many long, thin strips. Is there a way to reduce the polygons on the whole lock of hair? I hope that makes sense, otherwise I'll have to manually select and dissolve every second row of edges :'(

[@NetFelixOfficiel]

Omg your channel is so awesome i just find out and it really helped me out but im still struggling at making eyes and texturing the stylized character could you do a video on that please

[@Dikko]

It's on the agenda :)

[@황이산]

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[@Dikko]

Thank you so much for the nice words, and of course for the membership!

[@holbrooklyn]

Shout out to the Eurovision soundtrack!👀🔍

[@FishBoyBlue]

Hey there!! Love the series! Your work here is immensely appreciated! Can I ask one tiny thing though? Instead of defaulting to the hotkey solution first, could you please show where the menu / UI function is and then show the hotkey? I'm honestly terrible at Hotkey management when balancing a history of Maya, Cinema4D and Zbrush hotkeys. Thank you again!!

[@Dikko]

Thank you! Any tool I use hotkeys with are generally accessible on the left panel in the given mode I'm in. This series is geared toward the intermiate user, I work with the expectation that even if they don't use hotkeys, that they know where the appropriate buttons and menus are for any given function.

[@hiiambarney4489]

Oh wow, I really came far since yesterday. Now I'm wondering do you join all those hair meshes together or do you sorta leave them, because I am fairly interested in animating the hair a bit.

[@Dikko]

You can either join them with CTRL+J or leave them seperate. It's up to you!

[@eternaltruthstudios1427]

Love and respect for you

[@KabeeshS]

Where can i see the rest of the videos? It's very difficult to find it, can you make a playlist please?

[@queworldwow6262]

Looks good 👀

[@WilliamGarrisonArts]

So good. Thanks m8

[@Dikko]

Any time!

[@Micho_Aventuras]

Hey Dikkoo, a little help here please? I have the hair done with particles in a duplicated scalp separated from the mesh, I didn't realize that I have Ngons and now every change I make in that mesh make the particles go everywhere randomly, is there a way to fix that? I was trying to check my character for rigging in Maximo but I can't export with the Ngons there.... 😣

[@Dikko]

when building hair with particles it's a good idea to not duplicate the entire face, but only the scalp and parts where hair will be growing out of. My recommendation is to download the "Hair Tool" addon. This is my go-to addon when things get a little bit hairy (pun intended)! With this tool you should be able to convert the hair into curves, and seperate it from the mesh, then duplicate a new scalp, then rettach those curves to the new mesh. gumroad.com/l/hairtool

[@Micho_Aventuras]

@@Dikko thank you for the advice Dikko! I will take a look and have it done! 😁

[@bigboss9150]

I use the exact same method but I keep encountering a bone heat weight failure everytime I try to rig the hair for animation. Any tips, please? EDIT: I just figured it out! Here's what helped me. I had all of my hair meshes joined into a single mesh before I parented the rig. I separated every mesh and rigged it right after and it worked.

[@vidyuth3761]

Can u pls make a tutorial on how to texture these

[@swinter1016]

I'm very confused, i can't see the extra lines when I use bezier, help please.

[@Dikko]

They changed some visual defaults in blender with curves not showing the normals by default (you can turn them back on in the viewport settings menu in the top right)

[@swinter1016]

Thank you I was worried about the geometry of the mesh thank you again this really helps

[@drzigzag8985]

Great Job

[@RogerHazelwood]

hey dikko, have a general question to your hair modeling. is there no need to uv unwrap/retopology the hair? can i just put a material above it and use it for animation or game characters? hair is a mysterium for me

[@Dikko]

Hair still needs to be uv mapped if you have any hope in texturing it effectively. But hair can also be modeled in a bunch of ways depending on the style you’re hoping for, and if you just need a flat colour for the hair with no contouring you wouldn’t really need to worry about texturing. So basically it’s dependent on the direction you’re going for

[@zgrundalove]

14:26 can i ask how did you reduce topology on your braid?

[@Dikko]

In the curve settings there's an option to change the amount of subdivisions

[@frog9524]

tysm, this method works great with my style!! :>

[@Dikko]

Glad I could help!

[@Warbandit100]

This doesn't issue the problem with long free hair though, as those might expose naked skull behind.

[@isabel2793]

very helpful thanksss!! following you on twitch also :D

[@LukeMiddlemas]

Wow thanks i was trying to figure out how to make the curves into meshes for animation and it was brain dead simple i hate being a noob.

[@Dikko]

Everyone has to start somewhere. What matters is that you keep learning

[@luvsweetsuga2232]

Can doing hair like this be simulated?

[@Restoe3D]

hi, i wanna ask, if u use curve for making the hair, can u rigging it for the animation?

[@Dikko]

You will need to convert it to a mesh first :)

[@grantlee4331]

Any recommendations for modeling a stylized beard?

[@Dikko]

Two methods come to mind - geometry nodes using hair curves, or doing a sculpt then remeshing. A great question that I think could deserve its own video!

[@grantlee4331]

@@DikkoThank you! These videos have helped a lot!

[@MrGuyweinstein]

If I model this in blender, can I export it into maya?

[@Dikko]

Yep! Without a doubt

[@beepbeep-m6m]

Hey! May I ask how many polygons this has? I've made polygon hair models with curves before and it always results in 3k-15k if I want something of elaborate shape. Am I doing it wrong?

[@Dikko]

no idea how many mine has, but you can increase or decrease the subdivision of an extruded curve in the curve properties tab

[@alexlovsky7217]

How to set this hair to face armature?

[@anupamkumar4109]

How does the body become so smooth help

[@Dikko]

Subdivision modifier, and smooth shade turned on

[@anupamkumar4109]

@@Dikko thanks really awesome video by the way

[@gonderage]

Yeah, no, seriously, poly modelling imo is more preferable to particle systems. That is a completely different beast both in terms of the human dealing with it and the computer: my computer was making a ruddy little noise whenever I loaded hair particle systems, evenewhen I tried to use less computationally demanding details while still maintaining style. Also a tip for y'all when using poly modelling for hair: when using Bezier curves to create individual strands, attach the origin of the object to the root and turn on snapping to faces. And I also suggest to try blocking out hair with LINKED DUPLICATES for strands who'll use similar circumferences; y'all can then stylize them later by converting them into one mesh and sculpting it. There really are hundreds of ways to create hair!

[@Dikko]

the "hair tool" addon is amazing for the method you mention!

[@gonderage]

@@Dikko omg i have to try that!

[@ahmedjameel9295]

hello man I would like to thank you for all the tutorials plz when you done for your character and it's ready for rigging plz can you give it to us to follow you in the rigging process :)

[@Dikko]

It will happen eventually!

[@vivianetirone762]

should these objects be joined?

[@Dikko]

It's not required, but you can if you want :)

[@vivianetirone762]

@@Dikko thanks, i was just concerned about texturing and other stuff :)

[@a_blue_chicken1093]

the eyes have no eye socket? lol, I always tried to INCORPORATE eye sockets in my stylized characters.. it makes them look weird and creepy in a way.. This series seems very helpful!

[@Dikko]

Well shes asian so no eyelids for her!

[@a_blue_chicken1093]

@@Dikko :D

[@emilydervey2871]

lol fucking love horrible histories 12:16

[@Dikko]

Haha yeah we (as in my partner and I) were playing the song playlist while working. Covid lockdown has its perks :p

[@burntt999]

Pleeaase give us the rigging tut!!

[@neilmarshall5087]

Whats wrong with the series on rigging he did 8 months ago ???

[@locusruizlopez5997]

Cool!!!

[@eternaltruthstudios1427]

Thanks

[@akmovlog3574]

thank you sir

[@jitone1]

Haha this was the fastest and easiest one yet. Look and my blend file and see why. It's a guy and a plane seems appropriate. I used nodes to texture. I had to update this b/c my computer can't handle a bump map, oh well. drive.google.com/file/d/1wpYBeypHOAAzN22GLomkDQQG6KcigalJ/view?usp=sharing

[@stefancandea1949]

Im lost at some beginner things, like understanding why some models are colored, why he uses material view on all viewports, but one has color, how is he proportionally editing an object without affecting other parts of "the same" object i have so many beginner questions.

[@Dikko]

Might be worth tracing back to the first couple vids :)