1. Blender’s hair system By: Melanie Cardenas

2. What will be talking about?  I will be talking about blender and its hair system.  Blender hair system is a method which you can add hair to any object.  For example, Suzanne the monkey.

3. How can you add hair:  When opening Blender you will see a cube appear, delete the default cube and add the monkey mesh.  Then switch to edit mode and face select mode to select the faces you want to add hair on.  Then use circle select©, shift and right mouse click.  For the selected faces, they will be assigned a group, vertex group.  Open the object data panel and the vertex group will be renamed as scalp. Then assign the selected faces to the vertex group.  Next open the particle panel and create new particles panel and change the system to hair.  Switch to object mode and see the result.

4.  In the vertex group section assign the vertex scalp group to density to get hair on the faces chosen.  Adjust the hair length and change the number of particles or hair to 1500.  Open the advanced settings and change from jittered to random so all of the hair appears.  Use gravity to pull down the hair, in the fields weight section turn on use for growing hair then reduce the gravity to make the hair look natural.  In display section increase the number of steps to get rid of the kinks in the hair.  Switch to camera view and adjust it.  To avoid the black shadows turn on the environmental light on the world panel. Continued:

5.  You can use your artistic skills to cut, comb, or puff its hair.  BE CREATIVE!  To get more hair open the children's section and switch from none to interpolated.  The children's hair wont be visible unless you turn on children in the tool shelf on the 3D view window.  Add final adjustments you like! Adding extras!

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