Wednesday Addams Braids in Ornatrix App: From a Photo to a 3D Groom
How to Build Wednesday Addams Hair from a Single Photo in Ornatrix App Beta
Most hairstyles start with a reference photo and a lot of guesswork about how the hair actually wraps around the head. In this Ornatrix App Beta tutorial, Marsel Khadiyev shows a faster way to get past that stage. He builds a Wednesday Addams inspired hairstyle with straight bangs and French braids, starting from one reference image.
From a reference photo to a 3D hair shell
The Generate Hair Shell tool lets you search for a reference image right inside the app, pick one and align the base head model with the hair in the picture. After that, the tool generates a 3D hair shell around the head. Image conversion runs on a local model on your computer, and OpenAI or Claude API keys are optional.
The first time you press Generate, Ornatrix App downloads additional components, so give it a few minutes.
Building the groom by hand
The hair shell is only a guide. The actual hairstyle is built with the regular grooming tools:
- Graft Groom to create the scalp, and Draw Strands with collisions directly on the shell
- Strand groups planned in advance, so the braids and the bangs can be styled separately later
- The Depth parameter for drawing inner layers of hair
- Symmetry set to Concatenate, so each side keeps its own strand groups
- Hair From Guides with strand groups used as parts
French braids, frizz and gray strands
The braids are made with the Clump operator: clumping by strand groups, dynamic clumping, a round cross section and a French braid pattern. Then the hair gets a black color, randomized length, frizz on the braids and extra frizz on the bangs. A few gray strands are added with Generate Strand Data and a noise texture. The final result is checked in Cycles.
Who this tutorial is for
It's a good fit for beginner and intermediate groomers who want a quicker way to block in a hairstyle from a reference, while keeping full control over flow, density and shape.
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