Medieval Braids, Hazel Brown XGen groom based on a hairstyle from 'The Last Duel'. I really don't enjoy making braids in Xgen- I feel they never really look 'right' with lots of clipping strands and unconvincing tension so I want...

More renders and guide images on artstation:
www.artstation.com/artwork/8B6rkG

Wrapped up my latest XGen groom based on a hairstyle from 'The Last Duel'.
There's still a few things that I'm not entirely happy with but was ready to finish this off!

Based on the hairstyle from the last duel. great hair, did not like the film

I feel like its very easy to make braids look like they've been obviously generated in xgen with lots of intersecting strands which looses the tightly pulled feel, hoping to get away from that

My least favourite thing to do in xgen is braids, so naturally I'm torturing myself with doing a braid heavy hairstyle (very early wip)

Re-rendering old hairs in unreal while I'm cooking some other stuff
www.artstation.com/artwork/gReNOQ

True! I'd want to make one full process hair tutorial per year at this rate 😆

Yet another reminder for all the non-black comic book artists out there. The same around of research and reference pulling y’all do for everything else in your work, do the same amount of research for black people. Especially our hair. There’s literally no excuse.

I love the fact I'm constantly learning but its so frustrating that I constantly feel like my hair tutorials are getting outdated all the time😭

A look at the highpoly as well- its been really fun to dabble back in character art again, especially on a project that's been on my inspo board for years

Being absolutely done in by feathers that have feathers on their feathers 😮‍💨 Next up is the fox tail groom before I go on to retopology and the costume again

First pass of the hair after getting all the guides in.. must admit I think I'm cooking with this one

Time to refine the shapes and work on modifiers

First pass of the hair after getting all the guides in.. must admit I think I'm cooking with this one

Got far enough to justify getting some hair going as a treat

Reposting a message I put out to my discord group, figured I'd post here just in case:
linktr.ee/hazel.brown

Getting some clothes blocked in! She's looking a bit yassified and glam at the moment but will circle back to the face once i get some more stuff in

Been a good year! Here's to more in 2026 🎉

No, I don’t use ai tools in my workflow and I won’t in the future

Thankyou! Its difficult to say- I've spent a few evenings on this so far though

Hyperreal Character Creation in UE5 Learn the full real-time character pipeline from sculpting and texturing to lookdev, lighting, and cinematic rendering. Follow industry-proven workflows used in production to create lifelike digital h...

I've been following Sefki Ibrahim's course on hyperreal character creation, working through it in chunks but loving it so far, highly recommend
www.sefkiibrahim.com/hyperreal-ch...

Attempting a gentle Keira Knightley likeness (not putting too much pressure on myself with that because I don't enjoy it) and then going sicko mode on the hair and outfit (doing a strand groom with this one)

Trying to lock in and remind myself how to make characters (hair will be insane on this one though) #WIP

Why did they betray me :(

Thankyou for everyone's help on this! Turned out it was having nanite support checked on in the mesh- I think I'm going to turn it off entirely for any hair lookdev projects going forwards 😂

It was! I turned it off in the mesh first which didn't change but then I turned it off in the project, restarted and it worked, then turned it back on in the project but off in the mesh and I'm all good now :D Thankyou so much!

The mesh viewer was a good sanity check thankyou! It was still a problem in there, turns out it was having 'nanite support' turned on on the mesh that was causing it

Tried that, also unlocked the normals in maya and imported it as a new mesh with the settings unchecked but still the same 😭

None that I can see- it looks fine in marmoset so I'm thinking its a weird unreal quirk

No difference unfortunately :(