Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 47 minutes ago

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This video shows how to make long flowing hair in blender with the Hairtools addon, by bartoszstyperek.
Hairtools: bartoszstyperek.gumroad.com

This tutorial uses blender 3.2


00:00:00 Intro

DESIGN AND PLANNING
00:00:31 Design phase
00:02:06 Examples
00:05:37 Construction Plan
00:08:21 Hairtools Plugin

MAKING TEXTURES
00:09:24 Make hair textures

MAKING HAIR GUIDES
00:47:57 Hair guides - Nape
00:54:47 Hair guides - Sideburns
01:00:31 Hair guides - Main hair
01:15:52 Hair Guides - 2nd read section
01:19:00 Hair Guides - 1st read section

MAKING HAIR CARDS
01:21:43 Hair Strands (grid) - Nape
01:32:32 Hair Mesh
01:33:23 Make material
01:36:20 Set UV's
01:37:50 Refine Hair Mesh
01:53:58 Hair - Sideburns
02:13:31 Hair - Main
02:45:38 Vertex groups - used as a selection tool
02:47:40 Hair - 2nd read hair group
03:02:18 Hair - 1st read hair group

FINISHING OFF
03:26:20 Make lights
03:32:07 Make non-symmetrical
03:37:57 Detail hair
03:41:13 Fly away

03:49:41 Close


Plugins Used:
Hairtools: bartoszstyperek.gumroad.com
MESH: F2
NODE WRANGLER
EDIT MESH TOOLS
MESH: EXTRA OBJECTS
MESH: LOOPTOOLS

Free bust template on my Patreon (look for the "About TomCAT" video. its' below that)
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