Actually our hair can look synthetique that depends on the climate and genetic (some of our weather can be hot dry and dusty, causing the sythetic effect). its more east African hair. A pure non mixed black hair is lot more curly. x10, x20 more. Good Job!
2nd Comment lol. Bro once again i must say this and a few other tutorials have been the basis of all the black hair projects we have done so far. Once again thank you for putting this tutorial out there. You def need to drop some more man.
Oh Jesus Christ wow wow wow. This is literally the first afro hair xgen tutorial in the world lol. All we need now is a dreadlock tutorial and the library will be complete.
I'm glad you're doing this I've been saying well me and my friends have been saying for years that there's not a lot of representation for Black people's hair in a lot of video games especially Asian video games I think that's from a lack of effort and research by the industries and back in the day a lack of caring. Now I see people putting in the effort and putting it in games to make it more accurate not just afros because I feel like that's a stereotype hairstyle. I love the customization in "The finals" the hair looks real and accurate.
Isaac, Great video, and thanks for sharing. I've been looking for a tutorial like this for the longest time and you came through in a big way. Would it be too much to ask for an in-depth video such as this on making African braided hairstyles with X-Gen? That would be epic. Great work, looking forward to more, I've subscribed. 👍
Very good tutorial! Thanks Isaac! I really appreciated your way to tell about basic steps and adjustments. This was very useful tutorial and I learned a lot of skills I can suit in my beginner level. :)
Hey, by the way, can you make hair braid tutorial as well? I used dynamic curves to create FX braid then convert the PFX to curves and in Xgen Utilities converted it to guides to generate the hair. I gave it enough amount of CVs but wasn't quite satisfied with the result. I am just stuck with a project. There is a plugin (groomer's tool) but don't want to buy it for just one project. I know a lot of ppl struggling with that and not many tutorials on youtube. So this might be a chance for you to show us something. I want to say thank you for this tutorial super helpful
great video, amazing information thank you so much for making this video. and the results look fantastic. great job I will definitely be utilizing these techniques on my sculpts!
Cool, im working on a long hairstyle and have some intersections and it's really difficult to tell where they are coming from, think will convert it to IGS at the end to fix them and add final details but for now is there a way to color the guides based of the clump1 color preview?
Ur awesome man. How skin realstic texture r u using substance painter for realstic texture zbrush for pore detail's. Pls tell me any guide Link. Videos. Ur are nice artists
Hi, I did not use one for this tutorial. However, autodesk has some resources on enabling XGen collision: knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2020/ENU/Maya-CharEffEnvBuild/files/GUID-EE2B5B87-09C0-42DC-ADF2-8714A5468CDC-htm.html
I’m also really interested about material you set for skin ! The skin material which exist as default in Maya is too realistic and take a lot of time for rendering ,..so I really was curious when I see skin like Pixar encanto or this amazing models skin !
I feel the same. I remember when I started making characters I always dreaded doing hair, so I stuck to only doing bald characters and monsters for a while haha. But taking the step to learn Xgen was definitely worth it a the end.
Very nice video. I have a problem creating hair, it's growing everywhere and getting through the mesh, it's not following spline. Please advise me, thank you.
When you create the hair on the head model, do you export that as its own object and then attach the head to a body? Or do you just export the hair by itself and then just place it on your character?
As you see in the tutorial, the hair is never attached to the headmodel. I created a scalp geo, which can then be added to a full character in maya for instance, with the hair info attached to the scalp. Otherwise, you can export the groom to for example unreal engine
I am getting a Mesh.ptx (part of path doesnt exist) error msg when enterd Paint mask. Also when started putting guides same error showed. Any Idea how can I resolve it. Thanks
Select your scalp geo before you do those functions. Also, reapply the Lambert material on the scalp. If that does not work, make sure that you have set the project folder before you made the xGen, and that you are working in the set project.
i need an animation of a hair growing is one is a woman with no hair and hair starts to grow how could i do to match you and pay you to do this would you like or know someone who would?
@@TquanAye That should not be the case. Perhaps your brush size is just to big, set it to something like 0.01 and see what happens. Also, if the scale is wrong, why not just rescale the model by x1 x10 or whatever got lost in the import?
Plz make a video tutorial on creating realise eye . Like you have it in this model . It's my humble request please plz. Bcs I have modelled a character I m not able to make realistic eye so I saw your this tutorial it's very simple and easy to understand so I need easy and easy to understand tutorial for creating eye . Plz
@@sarbendrabohara7995 bro what are you talking about? There's a ton of eye tutorials on TH-cam for multiple different software packages. What we don't have is hair tutorials for anything other than straight hair or tutorials for non Caucasian skin tones, so brother her is already doing more than what anyone should ask for.
@@arjunladdhad8792 It's found in the "Setup maps" setting of the clump modifier. You can see me opening that window at 13:00. Let me know if that helps
Thanks for all the positive feedback ❤ just comment below if there is anything else you want a tutorial on
Actually our hair can look synthetique that depends on the climate and genetic (some of our weather can be hot dry and dusty, causing the sythetic effect). its more east African hair. A pure non mixed black hair is lot more curly. x10, x20 more. Good Job!
Love the work. Not enough tutorials on different races hair. Would love to see a good tutorial on braids that don't involve hair cards. 👍
2nd Comment lol. Bro once again i must say this and a few other tutorials have been the basis of all the black hair projects we have done so far. Once again thank you for putting this tutorial out there. You def need to drop some more man.
This is something the community needs. Bravo.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to create this tutorial, man. It really helped me a lot!
So cool! Very insightful tutorial! Easy to follow too
Oh Jesus Christ wow wow wow. This is literally the first afro hair xgen tutorial in the world lol. All we need now is a dreadlock tutorial and the library will be complete.
I'm glad you're doing this I've been saying well me and my friends have been saying for years that there's not a lot of representation for Black people's hair in a lot of video games especially Asian video games I think that's from a lack of effort and research by the industries and back in the day a lack of caring. Now I see people putting in the effort and putting it in games to make it more accurate not just afros because I feel like that's a stereotype hairstyle. I love the customization in "The finals" the hair looks real and accurate.
It really helped me a lot!!! All the tutorials're about straight hair and I didn't know how to make the curls and change their amplitude!
Great Job! Awesome Thanks. Really glad you shared. I'm sure it to a lot of time to figure out.
Very helpful tutorial . Thankyou for sharing !!! we need more about xgen
Wow! That is amazing. Thank you for sharing!!
Very good tutorial. Thanks
omg! thank you so much for making this, I couldn't find any tutorials for this kind of hair last year. Finally!
Isaac, Great video, and thanks for sharing. I've been looking for a tutorial like this for the longest time
and you came through in a big way. Would it be too much to ask for an in-depth video such as this on making African braided hairstyles with X-Gen?
That would be epic. Great work, looking forward to more, I've subscribed. 👍
Thank you. That’s a good idea, I’ll look into it!
what a champ! thanks for the excellent tutorial
Please! Other tuts on xgen!! Thank you so much! 😍
Best hair Tutorial, this is amazing !
very good lesson I really liked it, you are super!
Really good, Thanks for sharing this!
Great tutorial. I’m going to try out and do this.
Great tutorial!
this is
really awesome work
Thank you so much!!! I needed this for months on end and finally someone has posted a tutorial on this!!!!
Very helpful tutorial . Thankyou for sharing ❤️ we need more tutor on it 👍
That tutorial was so helpful Isaac. I learned a toone. Thanks so much for creating this. You are a great Instructor.
Very good tutorial! Thanks Isaac! I really appreciated your way to tell about basic steps and adjustments. This was very useful tutorial and I learned a lot of skills I can suit in my beginner level. :)
Thanks dude!
Great tutorial
This is so great a tutorial with a great difference. It's AWESOME!
Thanks for sharing.
after painting I think you have to save the density map both in the tools settings and in the xgen primitives
Hey, by the way, can you make hair braid tutorial as well? I used dynamic curves to create FX braid then convert the PFX to curves and in Xgen Utilities converted it to guides to generate the hair. I gave it enough amount of CVs but wasn't quite satisfied with the result. I am just stuck with a project. There is a plugin (groomer's tool) but don't want to buy it for just one project. I know a lot of ppl struggling with that and not many tutorials on youtube. So this might be a chance for you to show us something. I want to say thank you for this tutorial super helpful
Liked, subscribed 🔥🔥💯
Incredible. Thank you for this 🙏
Been Looking for this. so niceeee
great video, amazing information thank you so much for making this video. and the results look fantastic. great job I will definitely be utilizing these techniques on my sculpts!
Thank you very much.
This is exactly what i need. Thank you so much for explaining it so clearly! Subscribed
Cool, im working on a long hairstyle and have some intersections and it's really difficult to tell where they are coming from, think will convert it to IGS at the end to fix them and add final details but for now is there a way to color the guides based of the clump1 color preview?
Ur awesome man. How skin realstic texture r u using substance painter for realstic texture zbrush for pore detail's. Pls tell me any guide Link. Videos. Ur are nice artists
Thanks for this sir
Thank you so much ! I wish I've seen your video before doing my digi double...T__T
Easy to understand.Thamk you
do more video on this topic
Need more detail video on xgen
great
That's amazing! Thank you so much!
goood. Thank you so much for this you helped me a lot.
Thank you so much!!!
Thank you very much ! I just have a little issue :
Where is the parameter that prevents the hair from passing through the skin?
Hi, I did not use one for this tutorial. However, autodesk has some resources on enabling XGen collision:
knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2020/ENU/Maya-CharEffEnvBuild/files/GUID-EE2B5B87-09C0-42DC-ADF2-8714A5468CDC-htm.html
@@isaacolander8291 thank you !
Great job!
why you stop posting more videos it's really helpful ... thank you so mush
I’m also really interested about material you set for skin !
The skin material which exist as default in Maya is too realistic and take a lot of time for rendering ,..so I really was curious when I see skin like Pixar encanto or this amazing models skin !
Thanks, this skin is also made in Maya! And yes takes very long to render
thank youu so much, good tutoriall
Amazing
thank you so much
Hey! Can you share a tutorial on how to make a good side fade for a African American man.
Can this be animated in film or movie etc? I want to use something like this in a project of my own. Thanks!
I love character modeling, But I dont Like doing hair, itsannoying for me but im always impresse with Xgen maya, I can do amazing hair
I feel the same. I remember when I started making characters I always dreaded doing hair, so I stuck to only doing bald characters and monsters for a while haha. But taking the step to learn Xgen was definitely worth it a the end.
Thanks man, very helpful.
Keep it up (:
Thanks so much for your tutorial.
I have one question.
Xgen to C4d possible?
Only if you export and import as alembic cache
Hey bro, great vid.
NICE!!!
Can you do hair dynamics please ?
how long did it take you to make a rendered image and at what resolution?

Hi can you tell me how I can blend the hair to my character when I move my character
thank you sir, it's amazing.
Can you help me with something about the lights, please?
I am new to this 3D world
I used HDRPs for lightning
will likely crash your computer at density 200 love that!
Very nice video. I have a problem creating hair, it's growing everywhere and getting
through the mesh, it's not following spline. Please advise me, thank you.
Check if there is one spline that's pointing inwards to the geometry. Sometimes 1 or more splines that are misplaced can mess up the entire hair.
@@isaacolander8291Thanks for your quick respond. I checked but all are good. Thank you.
When you create the hair on the head model, do you export that as its own object and then attach the head to a body? Or do you just export the hair by itself and then just place it on your character?
Depends, where are you exporting too?
As you see in the tutorial, the hair is never attached to the headmodel. I created a scalp geo, which can then be added to a full character in maya for instance, with the hair info attached to the scalp.
Otherwise, you can export the groom to for example unreal engine
I am getting a Mesh.ptx (part of path doesnt exist) error msg when enterd Paint mask. Also when started putting guides same error showed. Any Idea how can I resolve it. Thanks
Select your scalp geo before you do those functions. Also, reapply the Lambert material on the scalp. If that does not work, make sure that you have set the project folder before you made the xGen, and that you are working in the set project.
Thank you!!
say I want to export the hair out of maya, how do I do that now?
what is your computer configuration? what is the processor and what is the video card?

asus zephyrus g17
i need an animation of a hair growing is one is a woman with no hair and hair starts to grow how could i do to match you and pay you to do this would you like or know someone who would?
Nice
Is there a way to export this Xgen hair to let's say render it out in Vray 3ds max?
Export as alembic cache
Ok so why does she resemble waka flaka to me? Think i need to get on Zbrush right now!
Bro are you interested in doing some work making some game assets or just to be a resource. Man u are talented! (a paid resource of course)
Greetings sir, can we use such hairs and models for games? I wish to make a realistic character designing/dress up styling game. Would it be possible?
Yes in Unreal Engine
@@isaacolander8291 May I ask how long it took you to finish the character?
My brush size is always too bog in Maya. Where do you check the scale of your object (in cm
) in Maya
Go to preferences and general!
Holding b and click drag to change the size
@@isaacolander8291 Yeah that works but the scale of my model is correct in Blender but not when I import it into Maya
@@TquanAye That should not be the case. Perhaps your brush size is just to big, set it to something like 0.01 and see what happens. Also, if the scale is wrong, why not just rescale the model by x1 x10 or whatever got lost in the import?
@@isaacolander8291 Okay i'll do that. Thanks for the feedback
Plz make a video tutorial on creating realise eye . Like you have it in this model . It's my humble request please plz. Bcs I have modelled a character I m not able to make realistic eye so I saw your this tutorial it's very simple and easy to understand so I need easy and easy to understand tutorial for creating eye . Plz
Don't ignore it pls
There are already a lot of resources on this, here is the best one imo: th-cam.com/video/d6ZhuE24C64/w-d-xo.html
@@sarbendrabohara7995 bro what are you talking about? There's a ton of eye tutorials on TH-cam for multiple different software packages. What we don't have is hair tutorials for anything other than straight hair or tutorials for non Caucasian skin tones, so brother her is already doing more than what anyone should ask for.
bruh I dont even know how to get the UV to work right. having trouble figuring it out.
I have a MacBook Pro m1, idk why for some reason my clumping never works
Uncheck (use control maps)
@@isaacolander8291 hey, thank you so much for responding, but can you please explain a bit in detail because I'm kind of in the learning phase. Thanks
@@arjunladdhad8792 It's found in the "Setup maps" setting of the clump modifier. You can see me opening that window at 13:00. Let me know if that helps
Jesus this looks easier too navigate than blender too bad I can’t afford maya, blender is a nightmare too work with.
Woww man
dreadlock tutorial?
Will do when I can make time for it!
@@isaacolander8291 thank you so much! would be greatly appreciated
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Please
Yeah sad it took all this time for this one man to make a tutorial like this
Hey 👋🏾 this is awesome would love to work with you one day! Do you have an Instagram ?
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