Hair tutorial with Blender Particles and softbodies

This is a tutorial about making hair with Blenders Particle system and softbodies.
To watch the high res video visit my site
www.blenducation.org
There are other videos there also. In addition I host live classes using just your browser as the class room. To find out more visit my site.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Blender
• 3d
• hair
• 2.46
• particles
• softbodies
• tutorial

[starlite319]

First of all, this is awesome.

Second of all, say I want to download Blender for Windows. There's two options- 32 bits and 64 bits- which is better, and what's the difference? Thank you!

[dipingo]

@starlite319 Great question. Simple answer is use what fits your operating system. The terms 32-bit and 64-bit refer to the way a computer's processor (also called a CPU), handles information. The 64-bit version of Windows handles large amounts of random access memory (RAM) more effectively than a 32-bit system.

[dipingo]

@starlite319

Open System by clicking the Start button , right-clicking Computer, and then clicking Properties.

Under System, you can view the system type.

If your computer is running Windows XP, do the following:

Click Start.

Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.

If you don't see "x64 Edition" listed, then you're running the 32-bit version of Windows XP.

If "x64 Edition" is listed under System, you're running the 64-bit version of Windows XP.

[Simwillb]

Thats nice work for a 10min vid. No Umming and Arring, which was refreshing to hear in a Blender tutorial. Im new to this program but cant get enough of the Sculpting. Are there any tips you can throw at a fresh noob. Is it better to start with a Cube or UVSphere? How do you cut the holes? How do you start a line by line Mesh? And - My Blender crashes with a 'Not responding' when i try to unwrap the mesh, is that because i have too many faces (190,000ish), or am i just doing it wrong? :)

[dipingo]

@Simwillb Please visit my site I do live classes bt request and would help you with any issues. We love the newwbies. Blenducation org. see you there. BTW ALLWAYs start sculpting with a good base mesh. No a cube. unwrrap it anytime. I unwrapp before I add multi res just because there are fewer face and I can cut seems esier.

[Insideviewanimator]

This mesh looks very bad...

[dipingo]

@Insideviewanimator Well, it isn't about the mesh. But I did look at your channel and I would recommend you check out my free head mesh. It will help you with topology. youtube -> BlenducationTube grab the tiny URL.

[CrashOveryd]

very high quality

[starlite319]

@dipingo Got it. Thanks!

[number1234ification]

can anyone tell me how to get the pink dots and the hair editable on 2.57?