Creative 3D Characters with 3ds Max
Hair
A course by Laurie Rowan , Animator, Illustrator, and Director
About the video: Hair
Overview
“In this lesson, things are going to get hairy. We’re going to adapt our vector guides into some fancy hairstyles. ”
In this video lesson Laurie Rowan addresses the topic: Hair, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative 3D Characters with 3ds Max. Convert hand-drawn sketches into playful 3D characters and discover your own unique style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hair Now we'll see some basic methods for applying hair to your characters. Let's see. We'll start with our character on the left there. I've got the mood board up here, he'll have this bowl haircut and there's my reference. I'll start with this, which is my spline guide to how I'm gonna position the hair. First, I'll call that Left_char_hair_guide_001. I need to clean that up, so I'll remove that at the bottom. So this is what represents the length of hair. I'll make sure that this section here is defined as first, so make first, the yellow should be there. That tells me the hair starts th...”
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Course summary for: Creative 3D Characters with 3ds Max
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
3ds Max -
Areas
3D, 3D Character Design, 3D Design, 3D Modeling, Animation, Character Design

Laurie Rowan
A course by Laurie Rowan
Laurie Rowan is an animator, illustrator, and director specializing in creating fun and vibrant 3D characters. For over thirteen years, he has been animating in a technical capacity, and has developed his signature style more recently over the past few years.
His client list includes Oppo, MTV, Pictoplasma, and Microsoft, as well as direction work on behalf of Nexus Studios. His projects have been screened and exhibited internationally and he is a frequent speaker at universities and creative design events.
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