Stylized Hair Strands for ZBrush and Blender  

Creating stylized hair, defining its shape, and making it look natural can be tricky and time-consuming. With minimal effort, position individual strands as desired – make hair loose and flowing, tightly braided, or bouncy and curly to suit your characters’ styles.

Doesn’t matter if you are working in ZBrush or Blender, the HairSalon utility pack will help you with the task.

ZBrush Version

The IMM curve brush for ZBrush contains 90 hair flakes, 64 braids, 89 curls, 24 twisted hair and 9 rastas. All brushes set with a different Curve Falloff and creased edges ready to be subdivided – to achieve more natural clump shapes and suit each hair type.

Some shapes have multiple meshes; these meshes can be separated from the original flake, using the Move Topological brush when the curve stroke is applied.

Additionally, all meshes have unwrapped UVs to avoid the unexciting process of making them once you have all the hair flakes already in place. Have in mind that if you want to keep the brush UVs, you have to use the brush on a mesh that already has UVs.

Blender Version

The Hair Salon Toolkit for Blender contains the same shapes as the ZBrush version except for the rastas that unfortunately can’t be included.

The hair strands are made by multiple bezier curves – one curve defines the profile, another the direction of the strand and in some complex hair types, there is a third one that helps to define the final shape.

With this versatile toolkit for Blender, the curves won’t need to be applied, so you can modify them when needed. You will have total freedom when adjusting the direction, size or shape of the strands and profiles or even create your own hair profiles.

Make your cartoon characters feel like they just came out of the hair salon with a stunning hairstyle. Thanks to the HairSalon tools for ZBrush and Blender!

Product content

ZBrush IMM Curve Brushes

• Flakes_HairSalon_IMM_v2.0.ZBP
• Braids_HairSalon_IMM_v2.0.ZBP
• Curls_HairSalon_IMM_v2.0.ZBP
• Twist_HairSalon_IMM_v2.0.ZBP
• Rasta_HairSalon_IMM_v2.0.ZBP

Blender Toolkit

• HairSalon_Toolkit.blend

Compatibility

Compatible with ZBrush 2020 and above.

Compatible with Blender 3.0.0 and above.

FAQs

How do I import brushes into ZBrush?

What is an IMM Brush and how it works?

ZBRUSH VERSION

• Rebuilded all hair shapes.
• Unwrapped UVs to all meshes.
• Renamed and reorganized all shapes.
• Now "Tri Parts" option is enabled on all shapes.
• Now you can find the brush in splited in different brushes.

Items added

• Added 61 NEW hair Flakes.
• Added 51 NEW hair Braids.
• Added 78 NEW hair Curls.
• Added 22 NEW hair Twists.
• Added 7 NEW Rastas.

Items deleted

• Deleted the old Planar_10 shapes.
• Deleted the old Circular_S01 shapes.
• Deleted the old Flock_S04 shapes.
• Deleted the old Triangular_13 shapes.
• Deleted the old Triangular_14 shapes.

BLENDER VERSION

• Created HairSalon toolkit for Blender users.
• Contains Flakes, Braids, Curls and Twists.
• Rastas on the Blender version is not included.