Autodesk Maya | Curve Warp Deformer for Toon Style Hair
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- Опубліковано 23 лют 2019
- University project demonstration for character development.
Topic: Toon style hair strands
Solution: Using the curve warp deformer with custom meshes.
Software: Autodesk Maya 2018 (Works in Autodesk Maya 2019) - Фільми й анімація
Only been using Maya a few months but have been dabbling in 3D modelling for years. And i just wanted to thank you for making such a good tutorial! Too often when a person is intimately familiar with a program they will go in to automode and skip key steps but I think you covered everything. Thanks!
I have been looking everywhere for a video like this! Thank you so much this is extremely helpful!
I would love to see if you do whole creation of this model it is so beautiful, you are good teacher
Very good tutorial. I definitely agree you are a very good teacher. Perfect pace. I didn't have to skip around when watching your video. Liked and Subbed!
This was awesome! Thank you! With this I was able to model hair for a character I'm rigging!
That's awesome, I'm glad it helped you :D
Is it easy to rig hair in Maya? I'm keeping in mind the parts I want to animate and not animate. Basically the hairstyle has half long and half really short hair.
Omg! Thank you so much for the easy tutorial.. this is exactly what I was looking for!👌 I always tried to model these anime type of hair but i messed up everytime.. this is soo easy! Im going to try this today.
Hi! You are most welcome, I'm glad this helped you :D
This is amazing, thank you so much! More people should see this! Nice work!
Thanks! I'm glad you think so, I really didn't expect this video to get this much attention :D
100% Agreed
@@GGPAnimationAndy this is super helpful man
Thank you for the excellent lecture. I should study right away.
You're welcome. :D
thank you!!! this save my work, you are an awesome sensei
Great tutorial, clear to follow hard to master.
i love you bro you saved my semester
this is a lifesaver thank you soo much!!!
bro thank u sm I was struggling so much with my homework! u saved me cuz I didn't know how to do hair haha
Thank you! Very helpful
Thank you for this awesome tutorial 👏
Excellent video, bro. Thank you for sharing.
Omg. Youre genius man!
This is really helpful, thanks
This was so useful! Thanks
You're Welcome. :D
Thank you!
Excelente!
awesome !!!
thanks
Also another quick question. For rigging and animation purposes should we keep the curves after we form the hair? Because it's kind of a hassle to have stuff kept to the side of the background
Nice model
I already try it,but my deform have't curve wrap
Bro WHERE ARE THE REST OF YOUR TUTORIALS!!! i love your style man i need more tutorials
thanks course ! I'm used to making realistic hair，Cartoon hair gives me a headache- -
ty :D
It's nice
This is incredible useful!!!This is what I want~~i build anime style hair before and I make a shit.....this would help me!!Thank you!!
Hey Thanks.
I'm glad you enjoyed the tutorial and found it useful.
Great video, it's really helped me out! You shouldn't have to make a new curve for each strand right? Could you just duplicate the mesh and curve and use it as a different strand?
Thanks for the comment, I'm glad this tutorial helped you.
I suppose you probably could, but at the time when I was prototyping this, duplicating the curve and mesh was very buggy, and never guaranteed to work, the hair strand would disappear or behave in an erratic manner. That may be something that has been fixed since then (I was using Maya 2018 in this video and it could have been fixed in 2019/2020), so you could give it a shot, if it is still buggy you could delete the history once you are happy with the shape, then duplicate the curve and create a new mesh.
@@GGPAnimationAndy I tried duplicate the curve and mesh but alas the curve is no longer attached to the mesh. unu I've tried deleting history and other thing but I just don;t think it works. I'm probably just going to make many strands because I want the easy move-ability that the curve gives to the strand.
So after that, can i just duplicate it? If I want the same shape of it or do I need to create it all the way back again ?
Anyways, thanks for the tutorial!
Hello. Thanks for the vid, it really helped me alot on my journey. One question tho: lattices. Tons of them. How to remove them without ruining the whole hairdo?
You're welcome, glad it was useful.
To get rid of the lattices you can do Edit -> Delete by type -> History, on the selected hair strands, this will clear the link between the mesh and the lattice (This might also delete the lattice, if it doesn't then you can delete these afterwards), be careful though as this will also un-link the hair strand from the curve as well, so only do this once you are 100% satisfied with the positioning of the strands.
How to make curly toon style hair in this method?
please make a full tutorial on how create hair i would love to learn how to do that
Hi Eduardo. Thank you for the comment.
Recently I've been considering doing a full process start to finish as this tutorial only shows creation of one strand. It's looking more likely that I will make it now that both you and a few others have requested it. If you've subscribed you'll see it when it goes live.
Cheers.
Andrew.
This was working so well but now the curve warp isn't working, I don't know why :((
i have a problem when i use curve wrap the polygon doesn't attach to the curve
Hi. You can guide me on how to learn and progress in Maya software
why there is no curve wrap tool in deform..can u help
Hey ^^ great vid 👌🏻👍🏻 the only problem I have that in my deform bar the curve warp is nowhere to be seen =~= even though I’m using maya 2018 as well 🙆🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Thanks!
Ok, so I've heard from a few people with this similar issue for 2018 and 2019. So far each person has been able to get it working by checking that it is loaded as a plugin, so that would be my first recommendation to check.
Maya really should make a 1 click option for Tube shapes, something like "Select a CV and hit Convert to tube" with the lattice options premade
Use a sweep mesh
Hello, your vid is very helpful. I have a question. Im having trouble finding subdivisions in attribute tab, i dont see subdivision like yours. Only radius and side length. Does it have to do with versions of maya? Mine is 2017..
I have the same problem.did you get it? please if you got it explain me
@@rkanimation1748 Its a little ambiguous in my mind but i just pressed keyboard “3” to make subdivision mode OR just followed this video unsubdivisioned (cause i couldnt find the mode). After doing all the things without it, I just pressed 3. The outcome was pretty similar with this vid. So I dont think finding subD mode is that important.. Good luck man
@@cheesecamp4813 Hi, apologies for the VERY late reply, in this video I'm using the 3 button to proxy smooth, if you wish to smooth out the mesh afterwards you will need to delete the history and subdivide the mesh.
@@GGPAnimationAndy thanks for the reply. I didnt reconized the importance of deleting history back than. But i do now! Thanks again.
Thanks so much for this very useful tutorial. However, when I get to the point where I'm adjusting the scale curve, the points won't move for me. I'm not doing anything different than what you are to that point. Ideas??
Hi Andy, Thanks for the comment.
Hmm, the grid for the control curve should let you move the points, otherwise its a pointless feature, what version of Maya are you using?
I didn't come across this issue back when I created this tutorial, is the grid greyed out all?
Looking back through the video it may be something to do with the value's under the Mesh Scaling section of the curve warp ( 5:07 ), I get the feeling that there may be a specific setting for those values that may render adjustments to the curve un-noticeable.
Unfortunately my knowledge would end there as I haven't used Maya in a few years now.
@@GGPAnimationAndy Hmm ok. Maya 2020.3. Win10
Nice tutorial bro 🤣
more videos please
Hello, I'm glad you liked the video.
I've had to put this channel on hiatus for a bit, as I've been very busy with life stuff.
At some point I do plan to come back and start making blender tutorials, as I've moved away from Maya.
how can i do the texture like yours? c:
This character model was a placeholder that I put together using the Mixamo Fuse Character Creator program(which can be downloaded on Steam). The materials and textures in that software were designed specifically for Fuse using Substance and can be exported with your character as texture maps.
The shader in Maya is a surface shader with the exported diffuse texture from Fuse as its colour, multiplied with a 2-tone toon shader ramp, and the result connected to the colour of another surface shader, to do this you need to use the hypershade window.
Hope this helps, and thank you for the comment :D
really nice tutorial! just what I was looking for. But pleeeeeaaaase try to not sound like your super annoyed by everything your doing.... thats just discouraging
Hi! Thanks for the comment, I'm glad you found the video useful.
I apologize that you found my tone discouraging, I was in and out of hospital around the time I made this video, plus I never really expected it to get the amount of exposure that it did beyond my immediate university colleagues and friends.
FOr some reason, it keeps saying it can not find procedure to createCurveWarp for some reason. And I cant find it in the deform tab, I always have to go to the MASH shelf and it gives me that message
What version of Maya are you using?
@@GGPAnimationAndy 2019. I figured it out. It had to be loaded as a plug in! Thanks for your awesome video tutorial!
Quick question tho, will these curves act like controllers that I can animate or no?
@@SpaceDuckQuack Ah right no worries, in 2018 you could use it right away.
I haven't done any animation with hair strands created with this method, You can have a go and see, at the end of the day its the curves that are driving the position of the mesh, so adding handles to the control points of the curve might work, if all else fails you can do the traditional bone based method of rigging the hair.
Glad you got it working though.
And you're welcome, it's great that you found it useful.
Regarding the Curve tool, it doesn't project on the surface persp view on my e.now what to do.
To constrain the curve to the surface you need to make that surface live. To do this, make sure you select the surface first, then click the magnet icon above in the shelf (I do this at 0:31 in the video), when the surface is live the text box beside the magnet icon will change from "No Live Surface" to the name of your object. You should then be able to place your curve points constrained along the surface.
Make sure to turn this off again before trying to adjust the curve's or it's control points' position, just click the magnet icon again.
@@GGPAnimationAndy ah i see, I think I missed that part in 0:31.
Thanks
Thanks this was really helpful!
I was wondering...
I'm currently trying to edit the polygon that makes up the hair strand without having it conform to the curve.
Every time I try to drag vertices on the polygon itself it does weird things along the curve.
Is there any way to 'un-wrap' or de-conform the polygon from the curve so it may be edited normally (while still retaining its curved state)?
I'm fairly new the maya so apologies if my question sounds a little vague ^^'
Well, this is awkward haha, seems like I answered my own question
After an hour of exploring I've found a workaround if anyone is interested:
After curve wrapping your polygon to the CV curve, you can duplicate the polygon (not the curve) and it will become a polygon you can freely edit.
However, if you wish to change the general curve of the polygon again, you will either have to manually drag vertices, faces, edges, etc. to the desired angle or curve wrap the polygon to the CV curve again.
The other way of doing this would be to select your polygon model (not the curve!) and under Edit>Delete by Type> History you can get rid of the node connection to any kind of deformers before. Careful with that one though, cause you can't undo this! Deleted is deleted. So only do this when you really want to get rid of it cause you're happy with where it is and only want to adjust a few vertices :)
@@ZhaoP Yep you are correct with this solution, however as Nocthena pointed out, you can delete the history (both have downsides but can be useful in certain contexts)
Cant move the points in the scale curve
:(
Hi nathaly, thanks for the comment.
Sorry to hear you're have trouble adjusting the scale curve, unfortunately this is not something I have come across so I'm not 100% on a fix for this, it has been some time since I last used Maya.
I have suggested to another user (who has the same problem) that adjusting the values in the Mesh Scaling options of the curve warp (as seen at 5:07) may yield some results, as a certain combination of these values may result in the scale curve not adjusting the mesh properly, however that is just a theory and I can't test it myself.
As for Curly toon style hair that you mentioned in your other comment, you could try creating a curve that spirals around and then curve warp to that, basically the mesh will conform to the length of the curve no matter the curve's shape, I hope this gives you some insight into the potential process for creating curly style hair strands/clumps.
i cant find curve warp tool any help
The curve warp tool should be in the deform tab when in the modelling workspace, if it is not, check that it has been loaded as a plugin from the plugins window (this has worked for other people).
If my memory serves me correct, curve warp was introduced in Maya 2018, so if you have an earlier version than that, an update will be required.
@@GGPAnimationAndy yes i cracked it loaded it from plug-in manager thank you
you can only do one hair at a time? :L
At the time when I made the tutorial I hadn't found a good way of making this a quicker process. I had tried duplicating the curve and mesh but that resulted in some very strange and broken curve-warp behavior, so I didn't include it in the video, that problem may have been fixed in Maya 2019/2020, so if you have either of those version you could try that.
Really helpful, thanks a lot.
Glad to hear you found this useful! :D