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XGen Alembic hair - is it possible to create more angular and styllized hair?

Hi everyone! At the studio i work at we are making a portfolio piece and i was given the task of creating Xgen alembic hair for this cowboy character. The hair is more angular and really stylized and…
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Lyuba

Agent Kruger - Game-Ready character

Hello everybody. It's been forever since I didn't publish here. I almost forgot actually x)I spent most of 2023 working on this guy and actually had lost most of my drive for the project as early as …
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Stensword

[3DsMax] Vertex Color White Problem [Solved]

Hello,i have a wierd problem with vertex color that i have never had before.I'm using 3dmax 2022 and i'm using ornatrix, so.. when i have the hair done, ornatrix always generate a vertex color for th…
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SuSo

Using Yeti (Maya Plugin) for hair creation and render in Marmoset Toolbag?

I enjoy using Yeti over Xgen as a newbie in 3D grooming, but I don't know if hair created in Yeti can be imported into Marmoset like how Xgen hair can be converted to polygons. Or at the very least, …
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thomasp

Making Nick Wilde recreation more movie-accurate

For the past year or so, I've been working on a Nick Wilde recreation. The model itself was made by YiBoZONE on twitter. My contributions include:* Fur and grooming* New textures* New rigOne piece of…
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Eric Chadwick

The Merchant - RealTime Groom

Hello everyone! My goal this year was to challenge as much as possible my character creation skills. Here is the groom of the Merchant character. Rendered in Unreal Engine 5You can see more on m…
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Thérèse

Hair feedback and advice

HiI'd like some feedback and advice regarding my generated and baked hair. I've followed two courses now - one by Johan Lithvall and another by Andre Pires, which is a very similar workflow to Johan'…
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DustyShinigami

[Complete] Female Portrait (in need of feedback and tips on hair)

Hello, I have this piece I'm doing for practice and I would like to ask for info about making hair and if what I'm doing is close to the reference I am using.I am trying to make stylized version but …
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Fraktayne

Creating a normal map from Zbrush fibermesh render

Hello there,for my current project I plan to use fibermesh in Zbrush to create the textures for my hair cards.I got inspired by this tutorial https://www.artstation.com/artwork/yb1b89 to use fibermes…
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xiphos

Hair Cards Shader in URP?

[{"insert":"I haven't used Unity in a long time now and have been using UE4 and their hair shader. I'm trying to get something similar in Unity URP but not entirely sure how to get some kind of fadin…
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HarlequinWerewolf

How to bake Xgen fur/hair details in Maya

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hello everybody. How can you bake the generated fur in Maya on an already existing normal map. "}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I have a map of normals obtained…
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DemigodOfShadows

Need help using the Simple_Hair_UV script for creating hair uvs

Im using the Simple_Hair_UV script found in the Xgen UE documentation however when i imported my IGS alembic file that i exported, it has 3 different description and multiple splinegrp .How do i add …
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mickeal_alex

In Maya, how can I make specific vertices, faces, or edges lock in place so they can't move?

[{"insert":"I have a furred tail GEO for a character, but when I manipulate the joints for animation, it moves the base away from the model. So ideally, I'd like to lock the perimeter of the base in …
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Lazarus102

Stylized hair & facial hair - feedback wanted!

[{"insert":"Hi! I haven't been sculpting for some time, so I picked it up again recently. I'm practicing stylized hair and I wanted to get some feedback on this piece. I wanted it to have a bit of a …
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sannePaus

Brook Model Critique to Improve!

[{"insert":"Hi guys, I want your help to improve my model, any tips are welcome.\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/R342SIJPC5VV\/zbrush-documen…
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iam717

[xgen] Can anyone tell me what's going wrong with this clump modifier?

[{"insert":"The hair primatives are all grouped at the guides at the temples and all spread out on other guides. Did I run the guide setup for the clumps wrong?\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data…
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nomzod

Substance Designer - Making an ID map for hair

[{"insert":"Hi\nI have limited experience with Substance Designer, though it is something I want to make use of more in workflows. I have a lesson that goes over how to make hair using scratches in D…
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DustyShinigami

Metahuman hair textures

[{"insert":"Hello guys,\n\nI am trying to make hair using metahuman workflow. I already created groom via Houdini and generated Cards. How I am struggling with textures. \nThere are for Cards: Depth,…
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tomasburancgi

baking AO from transparent hair cards? FF7 remake technique for AO on hair?

[{"insert":"Hi there,\nI saw a video on youtube from Outgang who does a break down of Cloud's character model from FF7 remake. And was just wondering if anyone would know a workflow for how they got …
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pior

Hair Shader Issues

[{"insert":"Hi\nI'm feeling a little bit at a loss here. Whilst working on my character's hair, I decided to see how it was looking in my UE4 scene, and I'm having mixed feelings. :-\\ To begin with,…
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Fabi_G

Confusion with producing Flow maps

[{"insert":"Hi\nAfter some discussion in another thread of mine, someone mentioned Flow Maps. However, I'm still really unsure and confused with how to produce them or if I even really need them at a…
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DustyShinigami

WIP Bust for Character Study - Looking for Feedback

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SpaceAttorneyMD

XGen - Advice on changing direction of specific hairs

[{"insert":"Hi\nI'm currently having problems getting specific hairs to point in a particular direction. At the moment, these fly-away hairs are all facing to the left, but I want one to face to the …
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Neox

Scanned data or hand painted...?

[{"insert":"Hi\nLooking at the head texture for Arthur Morgan from RDR2, would you say scanned data was used, or do you think it's hand-painted in Photoshop...?\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data…
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poopipe

Problems with baking a hair cap

[{"insert":"Hi\nI seem to having some issues when baking a hair cap using Marmoset Toolbag 4. I've been following this tutorial - "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_IU4DkEW…
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EarthQuake

Quick question regarding eyelashes and eyebrows

[{"insert":"Hi\nOkay, when making eyelashes and eyebrows for characters, do other artists bother with making an ID map? I can understand its need for regular hair with how thick and dense hairstyles …
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DustyShinigami

Katniss Hunger Games Real Time

[{"insert":"This has to be one of my favortie character to have made it to the big screen and my favorite project to have worked on thus far!\n\nCheck it out here for more shots!: "},{"attributes":{"…
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annaberu

Generating hair and fur cards

[{"insert":"Is there such a beast as a program or plugin for generating and rigging Fur or hair cards\/billboards for game quality 3D meshes? \nFor me it’s not the modelling that’s the issue, it’s th…
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TorQue[MoD]

K9 Digital / Characters art in Games (VR, AAA, Indie), TV & Film

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k9DigitalLDT

xNormal doesn't render

[{"insert":"I've been trying to bake base textures for my hair cards, I did all the hair stuff in blender and the exported the high poly hair as an obj, same goes for the cage and low poly planes, I …
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sacboi

New to xGen, some hair longer than surrounding guides

[{"insert":"Hey, so I'm trying to learn xgen and it was going OK until I generated the hair and got a random patch of hair longer than the surrounding hair\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"u…
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oglu

Attempting a black low-poly (PS1) character...!

Hey folks. I'm making a low-poly character at the moment, got to starting the texturing and thought... perhaps I'd better get some feedback (especially on the hair). The tri count is far in excess of…
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Reverend Speed

Zbrush Imm custom curve

Hello does anyone know how I can achieve this look with an IMM curve? I'd like to learn how to make it from scratch so that I can make my own custom curves.Edit: if the photo is not showing here's th…
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poliollia

Marmoset Toolbag 4 transparency with DOF problem

Hello Everyone,I am trying to render my character in Marmoset Toolbag 4 with Raytrace on. In the full quality viewport Marmoset renders it correctly. But when I render it for the final result, the de…
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EarthQuake

FiberShop - Realtime Hair Card Texture Generator (software)

Hi Everyone,I would like to present to you our new software called "FiberShop". FiberShop is a standalone software for generating 3D hair blocks and baking all required maps/passes in realtime,P…
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kanga

How to make 3D sculpted/Printable hair like this one?

Hello guys, I am a 3D sculpting artist making likeness sculptures and I was wondering if anyone can advise me as to how to sculpt this kind of hair ?what is the technique behind it?Thank you so much …
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Ginger

Can anyone tell me what is the hair animation workflow in Films like The lion king and Jungle Books?

I always wonder how do people animate hair, I am not much into animation in 3D so i have not much knowledge about the hair system, but I do know that in games they use hair cards and stuff like that …
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Bellsey

Need help using the Simple_Hair_UV script for creating hair uvs

Im using the Simple_Hair_UV script found in the Xgen UE documentation however when i imported my IGS alembic file that i exported, it has 3 different description and multiple splinegrp .How do i add …
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mickeal_alex

3Ds max to UE4 hair export settings?

Hey all,I'm trying to export my Hair and Fur WSM as an alembic file but for some reason it's exporting the geometry and when I bring it into UE4 it's detecting it as either a static mesh or skeletal …
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TorQue[MoD]

Xgen to Unreal Alembic Hair Exporter Maya script

Hi guys, Just wanted to share this tool here for people who want an automated exporter from Xgen in Maya to the new Unreal Alembic Hair format without the hassle of having to prep the scene manually.…
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fbb

UE4 Alembic Hair Braids?

I'm wondering if anyone has achieved making of braids that work with physics simulation? I'm talking about long braids that swing with motion. It seems like the only way to preserve their shape and p…
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Tamuna

XGen Hair below Hat

As shown in the image, how would you prevent xgen from penetrating the hat?I tried it with the modifier "collision" + "hat.abc", but that didn't worked out as we can see.
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goekbenjamin

Behind-the-ear tuck hairstyle - hair for games

Hey Fellow Artists!Just recently, I've finished this hairstyle asset. It's made with hair cards, fully game workflow, ready to use on a character. It was a study of both long hair anatomy and game wo…
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ggrazziano

Blade - Mahershala Ali

The news of a Blade reboot was quite exciting, but I wasn't sure how well suited Mahershala Ali would be as Blade, given he's a bit slimmer. Here's my take on the character. I hope you like it. Full …
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halberd05

Sr. Character Artist | 6+ years | Netherlands | Asset creation, Props, Characters

A process that ensures a smooth collaboration with the best outcome that fits within the scope. This process will support us in both communication, production and finding the scope that you need.- De…
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elfronza

Game Hair 01

Hi, this is my new personal project i am working on. trying to pratice game hair and i would love some feedback on this. =) Current Hair cards are 29k polys but ill perform mesh reduce after final mo…
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ArshadM

Stylized Hair - Brakeup/layers techniques

Heya everyone, hope you had a safe Christmas and new years! I got some good feedback on my last project and am trying to push something new an test my weakest points. (My hair cards were a huge …
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GarethStandfield

[DONE] Krampus

Hello everyone, this is my Krampus model for the year.  Sculpted and posed in zbrush, textured in Substance Painter, and rendered in Marmoset.
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goekbenjamin

Zbrush - Maya - Hair retopo path

Trying alot of hair methods, this looks how i want it, but is it even possible to retopo something complex with little stray hairs ect? i really love the result but am not sure how id take it into ma…
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GarethStandfield

How do you export hair from 3ds Max?

Hello!I am creating hair with the hair modifier in 3ds Max. I wanted to export it into keyshot to render. In order to do this, I had to convert the hair into a mesh. I did this by clicking on the opt…
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Eric Chadwick

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