Young Nahoko

fabio_m

A project I made to improve my character skills. It's a semi-realistic take on Young Nahoko from "The wind rises". Modeling done in zbrush/maya, texturing in Mari, shading, lighting and rendering with Arnold. Xgen hair.
On my Artstation too: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5484z

fabio_m

This an excerpt of some RnD about cloth and hair simulation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0enQIqHM0W4

polygons

Looks awesome

fabio_m

Changed the color temperature on the hair and made a bit of comp.

lasoob

I really love the hair

Justo

Nice work Fabio! Are you using guide-based primitives in xGen, groomable splines or interactive grooming for this?

fabio_m

Justo said:

Nice work Fabio! Are you using guide-based primitives in xGen, groomable splines or interactive grooming for this?

Thank you Justo! I'm using guides. I'm on Maya 2015 and groomable splines definitely are not suitable for long hair, whereas interactive grooming is not present at all in the old xgen plugin. I'm impatient to try this new feature.

Joopson

That movie was breathtaking. Glad to see some fan art for it. Looks fantastic!

thegeist

Woah. Awesome Hair! I really dig it. Keep up the good work!

HapZungLam2

How did you sim the hair? Did you use traditional ncloth or nhair for the sim? Or did Xgen has a sim system now.  It looks amazing btw.

fabio_m

HapZungLam2 said:

How did you sim the hair? Did you use traditional ncloth or nhair for the sim? Or did Xgen has a sim system now.  It looks amazing btw.

 That was just the wind xgen modifier + colliders. But the right way to get a believable simulation is dynamic nhair curves for the guides (or animguide modifier) and xgen colliders for the single fibers.