[Blender 2.8 Tutorial / Walk-through] 2D Hair Animation Setup and Techniques (Part 1)

Hey all! I'm back with a VERY LONG tutorial on basic 2D hair animation in Blender. Like, VERY long lol, and it's only part 1 (part 2 will be hopefully much shorter)!

In this walkthrough I'll show you how to get your images animation-ready, along with how to import them into Blender 2.8 (2.81a is what I'm specifically using). Next, I go through different hair deformation techniques, starting with wave modifiers, and going through the basics of lattices, cloth sims, and to top it off, adding gravity bones to a single strand. Hope it helps and stay tuned for the next part, which covers blinking animations, looping, and a couple of other techniques we can implement. Hope it helps and again sorry for the lengthy explanation!

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro and Sections
0:03:00 - Overview
0:05:47 - Separating Face Layers
0:08:40 - Separating Hair
0:13:53 - Blender Setup, Importing Images, Layering
0:21:12 - Orthographic Camera Setup
0:23:29 - Wave Modifier Intro, Knife Tool
0:30:10 - Vertex Groups
0:34:19 - Wave modifier basics
0:37:29 - Changing wave direction
0:41:50 - Applying textures to wave modifier
0:47:18 - Lattice Modifier Intro
0:54:37 - Applying Lattice to Hair
0:57:46 - Wave Modifier to Lattice
1:02:26 - Cloth Sim Basics / Pinning
1:06:07 - Cloth Sim Basics / Force Fields
1:08:14 - Applying Cloth Sim to Hair
1:16:05 - Baking Cloth Sim
1:21:00 - Combining Wave Modifier With Cloth
1:23:00 - Cutting out Strands with Knife Tool
1:25:54 - Cloth Mesh Construction
1:31:00 - Parenting Empties to Cloth Mesh
1:33:59 - Batch Renaming Objects / NOT needed
1:36:28 - Creating Armature and IK
1:42:10 - Parenting Everything to One Controller
1:49:11 - Applying Strand Back to Hair
1:52:58 - Applying strand back to hair / Extras
PHEW that's a lot of timestamps but I hope they help!

Credits + Resources

Original art is by romakiipede. Check out their other awesome works here: https://www.instagram.com/romakiipede/
https://twitter.com/romakiipede

Animation is by me, Zucchini! You can support me by subscribing to this channel and following me on my Instagram, Twitch, and Twitter as well (not active yet on twitter tho)

https://www.instagram.com/championyorf/
https://twitter.com/Zucchini3D
https://www.twitch.tv/just_a_zucchini

Resources I mentioned:

Pureref reference gatherer: https://www.pureref.com/

Hobbes Sakuga hair reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMFKrUizGXg

Gravity Bones recap: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/41235/how-to-make-rig-that-reacts-to-gravity-or-seem-to-behave-physically-correct
Another gravity bones video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpuhgbSbXEE

Live2D video on how to prepare your images for animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWnPWygJEyM

Let me know if I missed any other resources, I probably did!

Btw feel free to give feedback on my presentation of the information, what I could do better, etc. This is my second tutorial and any and all help would be appreciated.

Thanks so much for watching and I hope it helped! Stay tuned for part 2, coming........whenever! :D

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