{"id":3704,"date":"2014-08-03T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2014-08-03T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T15:53:00","slug":"digital-hair-from-aliza-to-zabby-and-everything-in-between","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/08\/03\/digital-hair-from-aliza-to-zabby-and-everything-in-between\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital hair: from Aliza to Zabby [and everything in between]!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I worked more on both of my digital hairstyles in progress: Aliza and Zabby. Aliza is inspired by the Goblin King’s ‘do in Labyrinth, while Zabby is inspired by the stuoendous hair sculptures of late eighteenth century western Europe. <\/p>\n

I improved Aliza by crudely deleting unnecessary polygons in an attempt to make a smaller, less unwieldy mesh. I also redid the movement morphs. Here’s the updated hairstyle demonstrating the effects of LeftSideXTranslate and RightSideXTranslate morphs.<\/p>\n


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For Zabby, my latest creation, I used a combination of Hair Designer elements and my own sculpting efforts. <\/p>\n

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I reshaped a skullcap for the main pompadour and spiraled up a thick ponytail to be the bun model. The braids, of course, required remodeling to make them lie right. I did the scroll curls from scratch with nested torus primitives and the flowers from sphere primitives that I used D-Forms on. All sculpting and remodeling occurred within Daz, even though it’s not really a modeling program. I did, however, use Meshlab to decimate the high-poly flowers into something more lightweight on the system.<\/p>\n

Both Aliza and Zabby are by no means expertly crafted. They both have rather sloppy geometry; in Aliza, layers of hair collide, while in Zabby, the braids sink too far into the pompadour once or twice. With Zabby, I also disguised a break in the braids around the upper bun by sticking a flower in the gap, and I think some of the flower petals aren’t fully connected to others. <\/p>\n

That being said, I feel quite proud of my first two efforts. With the basics provided by Hair Designer + my own limited sculpting skills + lots of time and patience, I can translate into reality my ideas of rather complex digital hairstyles. When I consider that a commercial version of something similar to Zabby, bice and OutOfTouch’s Grandiose Hair,<\/a> sells for $19.95 and ain’t nearly fabulous enough for my tastes, the $24.95 Hair Designer, which allows me to create a hairstyle that looks like a hot air balloon, proves itself well worth the money.<\/p>\n

I can already cross two items off the list of digital hair goals<\/a> that I made at the end of last month!<\/p>\n