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No,no this isn't any real fanart here. It's just another boring old spinner of mine.
I usually post these when I'm not doing real work on my episode, gives me the illusion of an accomplishement.

Anyway,this is my latest version of my Cosmo model. There's a lot of difference with the previous one though:

www.deviantart.com/thejudgex/a…

The petal dress is much more...huh...flowery? I don't know how else to put it, really.Her head shape is better too, made of a single mesh, gives better shading.Triple shadow setting,etc,etc...

BUT! That's not why I'm posting this.

The REAL difference...is in the hair coloring!
Finally, at LONG LAST, I've finally managed to get that anime style zig-zag shading on her hair!?
See thoses pale yellow lines on her head?

THIS..is called anisotropic shading( no real realtion to the anisotropy shader node ).

MWHAHAHAHAH!!!!!I DID IT!I......oh, wait, right, people are watching.

....

Ahem, moving on....

Little story here:

In all my previous models, I never was able to do such a thing, didn't even knew how to approach the problem.But I really wanted that kind of hair shading, makes it very close to a real anime, and it gives the impression that there is a lot of hair lines, when there,s actually none.

But, just the other day, I stumbled on a tutorial about hair shading like an anime. Not a bad one, but it wasn't really doing things I was interested in,and I was about to close it. But then the guy in the tutorial said:

''So, that,s how you do hair shading, simple!Unless, of course, you want to go hard-core and do some anisotropic shading, but that's really advanced stuff''

That got me curious, and I typed anisotropic hair shading in my research bar. Only one real result. Oh my, that method is SICK, adding noise texture to each other! But very efficient...or at least it is on recent blender version, not my old 2.79 internal. But, being the stubborn crazy guy that I am, I used that as a basis to create my own method, and here is the brand new result, finished it this morning!Fully controlable,cuztomizable and point-of-view dependant, just like the real thing!

Truth be told, this would probably work best with a lot of individual hair strands, not a big fused mesh, but....ahhh...close enough for now.

So here it is!
Finally my anime zig-zag specular shading!

I plan to try this on my Amy model too! I'm currently rebuilding her, so i'll add this feature as well.

So at this point, I'm wondering, what can I do to improve this model? I really don't know.
Not that this model is prefect, no, just that nothing comes to mind.

So...what should I do?Suggestions welcome.

P.S: I wanted to put a nice anime action lines background, but that probably would've pulled focus from the real thing: the anisotropic shading.

Anyway, enjoy!

OBM'S:
Not putting them this this, you know the drill by now.

Description
No,no this isn't any real fanart here. It's just another boring old spinner of mine.
I usually post these when I'm not doing real work on my episode, gives me the illusion of an accomplishement.

Anyway,this is my latest version of my Cosmo model. There's a lot of difference with the previous one though:

www.deviantart.com/thejudgex/a…

The petal dress is much more...huh...flowery? I don't know how else to put it, really.Her head shape is better too, made of a single mesh, gives better shading.Triple shadow setting,etc,etc...

BUT! That's not why I'm posting this.

The REAL difference...is in the hair coloring!
Finally, at LONG LAST, I've finally managed to get that anime style zig-zag shading on her hair!?
See thoses pale yellow lines on her head?

THIS..is called anisotropic shading( no real realtion to the anisotropy shader node ).

MWHAHAHAHAH!!!!!I DID IT!I......oh, wait, right, people are watching.

....

Ahem, moving on....

Little story here:

In all my previous models, I never was able to do such a thing, didn't even knew how to approach the problem.But I really wanted that kind of hair shading, makes it very close to a real anime, and it gives the impression that there is a lot of hair lines, when there,s actually none.

But, just the other day, I stumbled on a tutorial about hair shading like an anime. Not a bad one, but it wasn't really doing things I was interested in,and I was about to close it. But then the guy in the tutorial said:

''So, that,s how you do hair shading, simple!Unless, of course, you want to go hard-core and do some anisotropic shading, but that's really advanced stuff''

That got me curious, and I typed anisotropic hair shading in my research bar. Only one real result. Oh my, that method is SICK, adding noise texture to each other! But very efficient...or at least it is on recent blender version, not my old 2.79 internal. But, being the stubborn crazy guy that I am, I used that as a basis to create my own method, and here is the brand new result, finished it this morning!Fully controlable,cuztomizable and point-of-view dependant, just like the real thing!

Truth be told, this would probably work best with a lot of individual hair strands, not a big fused mesh, but....ahhh...close enough for now.

So here it is!
Finally my anime zig-zag specular shading!

I plan to try this on my Amy model too! I'm currently rebuilding her, so i'll add this feature as well.

So at this point, I'm wondering, what can I do to improve this model? I really don't know.
Not that this model is prefect, no, just that nothing comes to mind.

So...what should I do?Suggestions welcome.

P.S: I wanted to put a nice anime action lines background, but that probably would've pulled focus from the real thing: the anisotropic shading.

Anyway, enjoy!

OBM'S:
Not putting them this this, you know the drill by now.