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In my previous attempt to paint textures for Sabine's hair, one of my difficulties was aligning the uv shells with the painted hair strands. The shape for Sabine's hair is so complex that I needed to break it up into 29 uv shells in order to properly lay the mesh pieces flat for texturing. That is a lot of seams! So it was nearly impossible to paint hair strands that would appear to line up right in the texture across the seams.

Zbrush to the rescue! I decided to use zbrush to sculpt in the hair strands instead of complicated 3d-to-2d location conversion. So far the zbrush approach seems to be working rather well. I now have a hair model with sculpted hair strands that I tried to match up with reference images of the character. Things are starting to look more accurate!

What I am now also able to do is mask off the cavities created by the sculpting process in order to aid in creating more appearance of depth in the texture. Still a few hours work ahead of me in the effort to get this right!

Believe it or not, this is my first time ever trying to model detailed hair in 3d.

Star Wars: Rebels is copyright Lucasfilm

Description
In my previous attempt to paint textures for Sabine's hair, one of my difficulties was aligning the uv shells with the painted hair strands. The shape for Sabine's hair is so complex that I needed to break it up into 29 uv shells in order to properly lay the mesh pieces flat for texturing. That is a lot of seams! So it was nearly impossible to paint hair strands that would appear to line up right in the texture across the seams.

Zbrush to the rescue! I decided to use zbrush to sculpt in the hair strands instead of complicated 3d-to-2d location conversion. So far the zbrush approach seems to be working rather well. I now have a hair model with sculpted hair strands that I tried to match up with reference images of the character. Things are starting to look more accurate!

What I am now also able to do is mask off the cavities created by the sculpting process in order to aid in creating more appearance of depth in the texture. Still a few hours work ahead of me in the effort to get this right!

Believe it or not, this is my first time ever trying to model detailed hair in 3d.

Star Wars: Rebels is copyright Lucasfilm