Tutorial: Abstract Hair in Blender!

[@yesdadbut960]

Wow thats so cool to look at

[@mainecoon6122]

Great explanation. Love ur tone of voice. Just perfect!

[@FictionalReality]

Thank you!

[@knucklesbyname]

omg, this is amazing. your channel has great tutorials. wtf youtube algo...

[@joeabstractjoe]

A great tutorial and I have watched many over the years. Thank you kindly. 👍

[@Gygantis3DRullz]

It almost Looks Like a Soul.

[@rohitkhanvilkr1636]

So Cool .... Wow..... Awesome......

[@TerenceKearns]

That was fun. definitely doing to render some motion visuals.

[@TerenceKearns]

Major issues rendering and encoding due to the fine detail. There is a lot of noise in the rendered image - which I think is from the particle engine itself. eevee does not have NR but it doesn't even matter, I tried rendering a frame in cycles with Optix NR turned on but all it did was smear each cell that was rendered. OMG cycles takes FOR EVER compared to eevee. Not even willing to use it even if it did solve the issue. Long story short, I rendered to 16bit PNG sequence, loaded it up in Davinci Resolve Studio and rendered out H265 on "best" settings. It was an absolute mess ay 4K So I told it to use an i-frame for every frame. File size was huge but the compression artifacts were lessened (not completely gone). In any case, it was jerky playback. So in terms of rendering video for web, it's very tricky. A great learning experience.

[@TerenceKearns]

Ended up using PhotoJPEG as the codec for a quicktime .mov container. That took care of compression artifacts, but still need to fix noise for thin strands in blender.

[@JohnGetchel]

So cool! Can't wait to give it a try!

[@justinschmidt2753]

Hey, I wanted to let you know. I know this doesn't get a lot of exposure, but it should. I've watched a lot of Blender tutorials, and I haven't seen anyone do some of the stuff you do. I really like the Phoenix hair one. I definitely saved that very first time I saw it. Definitely would say keep it up. Plus, it's nice to be able to be seen by a fellow blender-er :-D

[@이진유-s5d]

wow!!

[@oskiontourphotography]

very cool tutorial, i´m playing around :-)

[@DISIGMAbandpa]

Great tutorial! So if i wanted to make an animation of this, like the hair moving slow. Would i animate the turbulence? Or use hair dynamics? Thanks!

[@_________________298]

Good clear tutorial. Thank you. Would this work in cycles???

[@ishaankrajeev4547]

yes it would work but the bloom effect wont loo good in cycles

[@raelahasilael8477]

I only discovered your channel today and I am very happy about it. can you please show us how i can convert these particles into a mesh object? greetings from salzburg-tara

[@forlogin3768]

Awesome Tutorial! Please let us know how you done the light animation which flows through the hair

[@ishaankrajeev4547]

i think it is done with the color ramp..idk exacrtly how

[@viveksurve5031]

I wanted to make a space render, this is perfect for the project. Thanks!

[@FictionalReality]

Awesome! I'd love to see it!

[@voevitalis]

@@FictionalReality Hi! I'm following this tutorial and I was wondering how did you get the force fields NOT to affect the hair particles when rendering animation? So that I can select a frame, where it "freezes" the particles? If I convert to mesh, I lose material. If I just follow this as is, I get a jittery effect from the force fields and not a still shape, which is what I'm aiming at.

[@calogiga]

Waooww. Thanks for the tutorial. It's very kind of you. I've subscribed to your channel...

[@FictionalReality]

Thank you for the suggestion!

[@rb_renders]

Anyone figured out how to animate the hair moving by changing the tubulence? Things ive tried so far but have ended up with the movement to be extremely fast/jumpy: Rotating the sphere itself in the xyz adding noise to the tubulence power moving the tubulence in the xyz direction rotating the tubulence in the xyz. The majority of these result in the general shape staying the same and only a few hair stands to rapidly move around.

[@centurysmaths5827]

cooollllll

[@ABones-bm3vq]

how do you make the light move? like in the intro animation

[@ABones-bm3vq]

is it animating the children?

[@jeremymckane1211]

Mine does not render this way. it looks like its having a seizure. I am unsure how best to bake the hair to render safely.

[@voevitalis]

Same. Did you solve this?

[@TerenceKearns]

15:00 looks like the center of an alien ice god eye.