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I was wondering if you had any tips on making hair for 3d model or in general ? I'm struggling a lot with them 🥲

I wish you an amazing end of the year ! 🔆

hiya mobi! thank you so so much, i appreciate it! <3 big post incoming hahaha

here is my process on how i do hair in blockbench, i'm not sure if you use it as well but it might be helpful in blender or other programs too if you're doing low poly ^^

duplicate the head of the character, move it upwards above the head a little, then delete the faces on the bottom (we're going to give them a bowl cut essentially 😱)

adjust and shorten the bowl cut so that the bottom edges sit just above the ear!

start extruding the basic shapes of the hair using the bottom edges! we'll block it all out first then adjust the minor details later (ex. waves, curls, etc).

i mentally separate the hair into two halves--the front pieces and the back pieces.

since i'm giving this model long hair, all of the back pieces are extruded together into a big connected portion rather than separate strands.

for the front pieces, i extruded the longer hair strands on the sides and then the bangs.

i added a middle part and did minor details like making the bangs frame the face better & adjusting the vertices of different hair strands by moving them up or down to make the hair look more natural instead of rectangular.

some other tips/hairstyles that i can think of using the base hair above (picture examples are in order):

scraggly: you can take the edges anywhere on the hair, extrude them, and make them pointy!

wavy/curly: you can add loop cuts to existing faces on the hair and alternate moving them inward and outward!

braids: you can follow the same steps for wavy hair with making loop cuts and resizing them to look like big braid chunks!

hair buns, spiky hair, etc: i would just create a separate mesh/geometry of those pieces and move them to where you'd like them to be rather than trying to extrude parts of the actual hair bc it's a nightmare to try to do from my experience :')

thank you! :3

hihi thank u so much!!! always glad to convert more people into blockbench >:D

so if u click the 'view' tab on the top left, then 'record gif' at the bottom of the dropdown, it should pull up a screen like this!

I was wondering if you had any tips on making hair for 3d model or in general ? I'm struggling a lot with them 🥲

I wish you an amazing end of the year ! 🔆

hiya mobi! thank you so so much, i appreciate it! <3 big post incoming hahaha

here is my process on how i do hair in blockbench, i'm not sure if you use it as well but it might be helpful in blender or other programs too if you're doing low poly ^^

duplicate the head of the character, move it upwards above the head a little, then delete the faces on the bottom (we're going to give them a bowl cut essentially 😱)

adjust and shorten the bowl cut so that the bottom edges sit just above the ear!

start extruding the basic shapes of the hair using the bottom edges! we'll block it all out first then adjust the minor details later (ex. waves, curls, etc).

i mentally separate the hair into two halves--the front pieces and the back pieces.

since i'm giving this model long hair, all of the back pieces are extruded together into a big connected portion rather than separate strands.

for the front pieces, i extruded the longer hair strands on the sides and then the bangs.

i added a middle part and did minor details like making the bangs frame the face better & adjusting the vertices of different hair strands by moving them up or down to make the hair look more natural instead of rectangular.

some other tips/hairstyles that i can think of using the base hair above (picture examples are in order):

scraggly: you can take the edges anywhere on the hair, extrude them, and make them pointy!

wavy/curly: you can add loop cuts to existing faces on the hair and alternate moving them inward and outward!

braids: you can follow the same steps for wavy hair with making loop cuts and resizing them to look like big braid chunks!

hair buns, spiky hair, etc: i would just create a separate mesh/geometry of those pieces and move them to where you'd like them to be rather than trying to extrude parts of the actual hair bc it's a nightmare to try to do from my experience :')