Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Part 4 of a series. Walks through making a fully modeled, rigged and textured character in Blender

-FREE procedural hair node reference on Patreon:
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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:54 Make jumpsuit
00:05:03 Lower body
00:06:45 Make hair tube
00:15:29 Lower hair tube to world origin
00:18:19 Add path
00:20:25 Add curve modifier
00:27:39 Add UV
00:33:02 Make 3 size hair tubes
00:35:20 Lay out extra hair UV's
00:40:02 Make procedural hair texture
00:41:36 Noise
00:46:22 Add color
00:47:50 Add color ramp
00:52:00 Add bump map
00:53:16 Anisotropic
00:55:34 Transparency
00:59:36 Make material display transparency properly
01:02:15 Nape of hair strategy
01:03:27 Name hair, make folders, and sort
01:05:24 Place and shape hair workflow
01:16:39 Add second hair
01:25:14 Mirror hair
01:26:33 Side of hair strategy
02:16:18 Main hair strategy
03:23:06 Close

Useful Techniques:
00:02:14 Disable selection toggle
00:12:00 cut loops
00:16:03 MOVE HAIR TUBE WITH 3D CURSOR
00:28:06 Mark seam for UV
00:42:59 Pre view how nodes look
00:45:50 Group nodes (using node wrangler)
01:02:56 Copy material from other mesh

Plugins Used:
MESH: F2
NODE WRANGLER
EDIT MESH TOOLS
MESH: EXTRA OBJECTS
MESH: LOOPTOOLS



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