Hair placement

 Introduction

Last week we talked about how I started to learn how to use curves to make hair strands and how they are the easiest way to start my process. Now I thought the hard part was over last week because once I knew what I was doing I can just start making the hair with the hair strand right? No, I had to figure out the hair separation of the character.

Inspiration 

Once again my inspiration is Shonzo and Yoolie, I tried so hard to try and mimic their style as usual, but I have a lack of experience compared to them. I have no idea how Yoolie makes their models, I can only see their final products on Twitter, but ShonzoI watched a lot of his 3D modeling progression and I have a general idea of how he just makes all the hairs thicker at the end and move them to the front part of the skull.

Brainstorming

I wanted my character's bangs to be like Sukidingels character model and I found this fanart that shows the front part perfectly. Though for the side hair and back I wanted it to look more like in the Tang dynasty era. Although this is not historically accurate to the time, this is how some people would dress up if they were cosplaying as if they were from Tang Dynasty China and I prefer it this way. 

Experimental

I have had trouble with the hair and how it bends. Basically every vertex I move it would ultimately make the curve flip 180 degrees and allow the backside of the hair strand to show. Though it may not sound like a huge deal, my hair strands had a bit of texture to them which needed to be seen. I eventually scrapped the texture and extra details and just stuck with the triangle hair **Insert photo for context** which is the most basic hair strand since Shonzo also only uses triangle hair strands. I eventually did figure it out and made the bangs which felt so good!

Process

Reflection

I felt I made it more complicated than it had to be, mostly due to when something goes wrong I try to undo everything and start over. I did eventually figure it out and I'm looking forward to continuing this with the last two parts of the hair.

Work Log:

Monday 12/06/21: Made more possible hair strands

Tuesday 12/07/21: Redid the hair strands because I didn't like them.

Wednesday 12/08/21: Placing hair on but it keeps bending weirdly.
Thursday 12/09/21: Started on mid bangs of the hair and finished them.

Friday 12/10/21: Finished front hair starting side strands.