Hazel Brown
Lead Hair Artist at Roarty Digital | DMU Alumni | She/Her | Opinions are my own!
linktr.ee/hazel.brown
www.artstation.com/hazelbrown
- Re-rendering old hairs in unreal while I'm cooking some other stuff www.artstation.com/artwork/gReNOQ
- I love the fact I'm constantly learning but its so frustrating that I constantly feel like my hair tutorials are getting outdated all the time😭
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- True! I'd want to make one full process hair tutorial per year at this rate 😆
- A look at the highpoly as well- its been really fun to dabble back in character art again, especially on a project that's been on my inspo board for years
- Being absolutely done in by feathers that have feathers on their feathers 😮💨 Next up is the fox tail groom before I go on to retopology and the costume again
- First pass of the hair after getting all the guides in.. must admit I think I'm cooking with this one
- Time to refine the shapes and work on modifiers
- Got far enough to justify getting some hair going as a treat
- Reposting a message I put out to my discord group, figured I'd post here just in case: linktr.ee/hazel.brown
- Getting some clothes blocked in! She's looking a bit yassified and glam at the moment but will circle back to the face once i get some more stuff in
- Been a good year! Here's to more in 2026 🎉
- Trying to lock in and remind myself how to make characters (hair will be insane on this one though) #WIP
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- No, I don’t use ai tools in my workflow and I won’t in the future
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- Thankyou! Its difficult to say- I've spent a few evenings on this so far though
- Attempting a gentle Keira Knightley likeness (not putting too much pressure on myself with that because I don't enjoy it) and then going sicko mode on the hair and outfit (doing a strand groom with this one)
- I've been following Sefki Ibrahim's course on hyperreal character creation, working through it in chunks but loving it so far, highly recommend www.sefkiibrahim.com/hyperreal-ch...
- Thankyou for everyone's help on this! Turned out it was having nanite support checked on in the mesh- I think I'm going to turn it off entirely for any hair lookdev projects going forwards 😂
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- Why did they betray me :(
- Can any unreal wizards help me understand why I'm getting these hard edges on my haircards in ue6? The mesh itself is smooth etc. I've seen others with the same issue but haven't found a solution
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- It was! I turned it off in the mesh first which didn't change but then I turned it off in the project, restarted and it worked, then turned it back on in the project but off in the mesh and I'm all good now :D Thankyou so much!
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- The mesh viewer was a good sanity check thankyou! It was still a problem in there, turns out it was having 'nanite support' turned on on the mesh that was causing it
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- Tried that, also unlocked the normals in maya and imported it as a new mesh with the settings unchecked but still the same 😭
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- None that I can see- it looks fine in marmoset so I'm thinking its a weird unreal quirk
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- No difference unfortunately :(
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- I think it could be something in the shader it doesn't like- when I put a basic flat material on it the normals look alright 🤔
- Textures created in xGen and placed in maya
- This is rendered in unreal engine 6 I believe its just the standard metahuman level set up
- I wish my parents thought about my potential personal branding when choosing my name
- Its here! My realtime eyebrows and eyelashes tutorial www.artstation.com/a/51040229
- To get the most out of this I highly recommend starting with @delwalker.bsky.social 's "Brows In Detail - An Artists Guide to Understanding Eyebrows" presentation to get a solid foundation for all things brows before you then make them in 3D: delwalker.gumroad.com/l/brows
- Almost done- realised right at the end of recording I didn’t increase the resolution of the saved videos from obs 🙃 it shouldn’t make a huge difference overall but just not as crisp as I would usually like
- Eyebrows/Eyelashes tutorial coming soon
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- Thankyou!
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- Hair cards! I'm also going to do a quick XGen run down for baking to a cap/the character's head
- I'm going to be putting together a quick eyebrows and eyelash tutorial since its by far my most requested tutorial- does anybody have any questions/requests for me to cover?
- Happy to share my most recent XGen groom since full grooms are sorely lacking in my portfolio! Slowly coming round to enjoying the xgen process Check it out on artstation: www.artstation.com/artwork/eR6BQ6
- Been working here and there on a full XGen groom since I don't have many in my personal folio. Almost there just needs a proper breakup and detail pass (and also a better render scene)
- Put together some notes on babyhairs and hairlines since I notice common mistakes: www.artstation.com/blogs/hazelb...
- Is this image AI??? I can't find the origin in reverse image search but any 'tells' in the style look like they can be somewhat justified.. I'm so sick of ai all over pinterest, man
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- Ahh yes you're right 😭 I'm usually pretty good at clocking this shit but its getting harder. I guess a good rule of thumb is if you have to ask then it probably is 🙃
- A quick hairstyle made over a few days to test some maya issues I was having (now resolved yippie!) Kept it pretty low poly coming in at 20k tris.
- Check it out on artstation: www.artstation.com/artwork/nJPo2o
- Noodling with a lil hairdo, originally started to stress test some issues I was having in maya but obv now I gotta commit to finishing it
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- Yeah a pixie with a bit of a mullet at the back!
- If you bought my tutorial I've just uploaded some additional optimised meshes and some elaboration on the optimisation part of the tutorial so be sure to go back and download that!
- I'm happy to present my second realtime hair tutorial! It's been a while now since my first one and I've got some new information to share that will help you elevate your realtime hair. www.artstation.com/a/48150728
- I'm all tutorial'd out for a bit now! Going to enjoy the summer and rest 🌞😎
- I'm happy to present my second realtime hair tutorial! It's been a while now since my first one and I've got some new information to share that will help you elevate your realtime hair. www.artstation.com/a/48150728
- Tomorrow!
