we have all seen wonderful examples of cycles hair rendering capability, but still not applied to human hair (or i missed it), so i decided to make my journey to learn cycles hair here a wip thread. hoping of hints when i do wrong how to improve, and hoping to inspire others to try too…
it began with this dynatopo sketch i had posted already in dynatopo-thread. i made a retopo in blender by hand, got less than 800 polygons. next image shows same basemesh with just a subsurf modifier on (noting modeled, just subsurf step 2).
… so here is the next step: i added a multires modifier and refined the face to give it more definition. still needs work… and, i painted the skin texture in zbrush (hand painted, not foto projects) and created a material in blender with this texture. again, can be tweaked, but for the moment i am pretty happy with it… the plan is, to first create everything as in a “roughing out stage”, then in a second pass go over everything and tweak to perfection and work in harmony together (which certainly means tweaking so long that i got bored of it and call it done,) , i start to like my young man … lol …
