Strong references are essential for creating believable hair. In this lesson, Guillermo analyzes different types of visual references and shows how to study hair flow, clumping, breakup, and silhouette. Understanding these elements will help guide grooming decisions and ensure the final result feels natural, structured, and visually consistent with real-world hairstyles.

Duration: 3m 30s

In this lesson, Guillermo begins building the groom using XGen. He demonstrates how to create a clean guide setup and establish the primary hair flow based on the gathered references. His focus is on organizing guides efficiently and creating a strong base structure that will support the rest of the grooming process and make further adjustments easier.

Duration: 12m 30s

Once the base guides are established, Guillermo uses XGen modifiers to add variation and realism to the groom. This lesson showcases how to control clumping, noise, length variation, and other subtle details that help break the uniformity of the hair. These modifiers are all essential for achieving a natural look while maintaining full artistic control over the hairstyle.

Duration: 17m 14s

In this lesson, Guillermo demonstrates how to prepare the groom for a real-time workflow by baking it into textures using Marmoset Toolbag. This process converts the high-density groom into maps suitable for hair cards. He shows how to generate key textures such as albedo, opacity, normal, and other maps needed to create optimized game hair.

Duration: 19m 1s

After baking the groom textures, Guillermo brings them into Substance Painter to refine and enhance the final look. In this lesson, he shows how to adjust color variation, contrast, and additional details to improve realism. This step helps transform the baked maps into polished textures, ready for use on hair cards in a real-time rendering environment.

Duration: 15m 51s

In this lesson, Guillermo creates hair cards using FiberShop and GS CurveTools. These tools help speed up the process of generating clean and efficient hair geometry. He teaches how to organize the cards, control hair flow, and properly prepare them so they work well with baked textures and maintain a natural appearance.

Duration: 28m 5s

In this lesson, Guillermo imports the hair cards into Unreal Engine and sets up the hair shader. He demonstrates how to configure the materials, connect the texture maps, and adjust parameters to achieve a realistic, real-time hair look. Understanding how hair shading works in Unreal is key to achieving believable lighting and depth in the final character.

Duration: 20m 22s

In this lesson, Guillermo focuses on presenting the character in Unreal Engine. He demonstrates how to set up lighting, cameras, and scene composition to effectively highlight the groom. This stage focuses on creating a professional final presentation that showcases the work and demonstrates how the character would appear in a real-time production environment.

Duration: 14m 1s

In the final lesson, Guillermo focuses on the final grooming polish. He demonstrates how to refine the existing layers, improve silhouette definition, and introduce additional variation and dynamism to the hair. After completing these adjustments, he shows how to transfer the groom to Unreal Engine and refine the lighting setup to enhance the asset's visual quality, resulting in a stronger, more production-ready presentation.

Duration: 14m 20s