NeoToonami: SARA 3 Hair Turntable 3
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This is a turntable of version 3 of the hair for SARA 3 for the NeoToonami project. SARA was the ship's computer for Toonami on Cartoon Network. She had a humanoid form in which she interacted with TOM, the host. The second version of SARA had spiky anime hair made of solid 3D parts. I think I like that best, but long hair seems to be the consensus at NeoToonami for now.
This is my first attempt at modeling hair, so it is a bit of an experiment. I put some serious thought into how anime hair should be modeled in 3D, and I like the general method that I came up with, but it seems like there should be an easier way.
The folks in the NeoToonami forums were intrigued by the first experimental version of her hair. It was long, and they liked that idea, but it was blowing all over the place and they wanted to see her with long hair that was hanging down a bit more naturally. I could not just take my previous hair and stop it from blowing, because of shading issues. My tool, Carrara, has limitations on shading dynamic hair objects, and this is what I was using. Therefore, my only resort was to model her hair from scratch. That took me months with the small amount of free time that I can dedicate to this.
Now that its done, there is a couple of things that I would like to see change. I would like to see it lay more flat. I think it is too thick and poofy. I also would like to see it a bit longer. Super long hair has a really dramatic effect and makes the character seem more special.
Please leave me some comments and let us know what you think?
Stay gold!