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The Road to 3D Grooming. My Story. Part 16 - 2018 - Hair Grooming/Lookdev for Jessika

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"She walks in beauty..." - how does that line go? =) Yes, it's still 2018. It feels like I got stuck there, but no. I was just making a lot of stuff =) Anyway, I got tired of Camilla and decided to create a new doll. And this time not a mannequin, but a full character, head to toe, with everything that comes with it. I already had some experience from the Harley Quinn I made back in 2016. I haven't shown her in this story, but you can find her on ArtStation in the History category =) I wanted to make a girl who could have different hairstyles. Sort of an avatar , as people like to say these days. Yep, we were building metaverses years ago, and the world started talking about them much later =) Why Jessika Her name is Jessika. Why? I just like the name. And once upon a time I was a huge Jessica Alba fan: posters on every wall, folders full of photos and all that =) The face, though, didn't turn out the way I wanted, no matter how hard I tried. The face and the c...

The Road to 3D Grooming. My Story. Part 15 - 2018 - Grooming for Joseph #3. Cornrows and Beard

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Continuing the story =) Who's this guy? - you might ask. Come on, don't you recognize him? It's the same Joseph who hangs out with Camilla from the previous episodes. No, not her brother. Her boyfriend. He's just changed a bit. Okay, he's bulked up a bit =) Harder than last time In the same year, 2018, I kept experimenting with hairstyles. The last episode was about my first braids, and I wanted to go further. Not just a couple of braids, but a really complex hairstyle: lots of thin cornrows lying tight along the scalp, plus shaved sides. I also really wanted to learn how to make proper beards. Last time I was just figuring out how a beard works, and this time I decided to do it right. Why not? Joseph wanted to look more stylish =) To be honest, it was quite a challenge. This hairstyle really wore me out. But I'm glad I didn't give up and finished it. How the cornrows were drawn The trickiest part was the cornrows themselves. There was no automatic way to ma...

The Road to 3D Grooming. My Story. Part 14 - 2018 - Hair Grooming/Lookdev for Joseph #2

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Remember how in the last episode I promised to show you Joseph's second hairstyle? I keep my word =) But first, a confession. Back then I got so carried away with the curls and my grandma that I forgot the most important thing. I never actually told you who he is. Let me fix that. Meet Joseph. He's 30. He loves sports, runs around the jungle naked and eats bananas =) How Joseph met Camilla Yes, he's Camilla's boyfriend. And how did they meet? Oh, that's a whole other story. One early morning, Joseph was running about his business as usual, looking for another banana tree. Naked, of course. What? That's just how tough his life is =) There are plenty of bananas in the jungle. But Joseph needs special ones, with a pit. Those are rare, and they're usually guarded by yellow dragons. That day, sweet Camilla came to the jungle on a tour with her brother. And her brother... got eaten by that very yellow dragon. Well, not exactly eaten - quickly swallowed. Joseph had...

Wednesday Addams Braids in Ornatrix App: From a Photo to a 3D Groom

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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 ...

Ornatrix Features #2 - Creating braids with MeshFromStrands/BraidTool (3ds Max)

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  In this video, I continue to show the braids workflow in Ornatrix. This time, I'm demonstrating the same workflow about creating braids using the MeshFromStrands and BraidTool modifiers, but only in 3ds Max with some modifications. With it - you can create procedural braids and draw them on the surface, while - they will already have a UV and, if desired, can be converted into real hair or haircards. Branching allows you to quickly assign any braid to any guide or group of guides. The goal of the series is to quickly show you something interesting and useful related to this plugin. I don't waste time on voice acting, since there are already basic lessons - which also need to be done =) But since - I don't upload them very often, I need to do something else - to develop the channel. --- PATREON: If you want to get all the lessons with my voice acting as soon as possible, do not wait for the release of each episode for years, and also plunge into the friendly groomers commu...

Ornatrix/3ds Max: How I make braids and fringe?

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  In this series, I talk about what settings I use to create realistic braids using HairFromMeshStrips in Ornatrix and also show the rest of the modifiers to improve the result on rendering in 3ds Max + V-Ray.  I also talk about how I created the fringe and what tools I used. Creating Realistic Hair in Blender for Cycles Render - https://bit.ly/39KZm4g   15% OFF Coupon code: WFN15 If you find my videos USEFUL, you can express THANKS by supporting me on Boosty - https://bit.ly/3sLyBDU   - for this you will receive a lot of exclusive material, which includes early video WIPs, ad-free lessons, model discounts, and many what is interesting.       More tutorials: - Ornatrix Cinema 4D → https://bit.ly/3nVlJsk   - Ornatrix Maya → https://bit.ly/2HILywo    - Ornatrix 3ds Max → https://bit.ly/3nXZOAN   - Octane → http://bit.ly/2lG40u3   - Arnold → http://bit.ly/2vproAV   - Redshift → https://bit.ly/349zk73   - Fstorm...