eyebrow

[chard]

anyone knows how the pro workflow doing the eyebrow?

[danlefeb]

Depends on the look you are going for. You can do it with textures or if you require a great amount of detail you can use hair to create it...or even paint fx if you want. The main thing is what level of detail do you need?

[chard]

im aiming for extreme close up, im now trying the paint fx, just dont know how to contraint the paintfx eyebrow on the skin.

[DjVoyager]

You'd have to use curves. Model the basic shape of the hair using a nurbs primitive. Select the isoparms and go to Edit Curves > Duplicate Surface Curves. Attach the PaintFX hairShortBlack to these curves by selecting the curves and then the brush. Go to Paint Effects > Curve Utilities > Attach Brush to Curves. I suggested using hairShortBlack because sometimes the other brushes are harder to transform. You can change the color afterwards.
The problem is that you will probably have to use a lot of curves to make the brow look realistic, especially for an extreme closeup. In that case, you might have to manually draw a curve for each hair, to show variation among the size and width.
Hope that helps.

[chard]

wow! nice workflow! Thanks Djvoyager!! btw how do i attache it to the skin?

[DjVoyager]

You can parent the curves to the skin, and the paintfx strokes will follow. Select the curve and then the face and press P.

[chard]

Thanks a lot Djvoyager! :-)