re learning various techniques
polycount lvl 666
so yeah I have spent the last year just re learning the stuff that I have found difficult in the past like cloth/heads etc and the only
thing that i am really annoyed with now is low poly hair planes. easy enough to do with larger planes, but to do a stylish haircut and keep it under control is almost like voodoo magic:) (Sobs in to blanket)
Ideally take a high res hairstyle using curves in either zbrush/blender or xgen and 'painfully' convert to low poly planes.
starting to think that it s best to do it all by hand, but takes too long really
BUT I have learned that if you try enough techniques then 1 of them will work for you at some point 
I have pretty much got the hang of the curves ie higher res hairstyles , though would not call myself a proper hair dude -
learned enough to present my work and not have too many bald characters
the hair above/left took about 20 mins in blender, the other one on the right took hours in zbrush
I will be bitching about sculpting hand's next month, because they are the devils own sausages attached to a larger piece of meat
My main tip is to go hard edged using flatten and dam standard then smooth off
not rreally a rant, just a few observations about how hard the whole character process has become
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