Arcane Style Tutorial Part 1: Hair (Blender 3.0 / EEVEE) 

Hair Info node has been renamed to Curves Info for those who were confused like me.

This is amazing, how on earth did he figure it out?! Things to note in NEWER VERSIONS: To thicken the hairs - its under render --> curves (not hair) --> strip. Mix rgb is just mix and change float to color. Hair node is curve tangent, like someone mentioned below. Turn world strength way down (mine is .5) In particle edit, make sure children is checked and steps are 5, under "tool" tab. Try different light strengths. Pay close attention to what he does, the light is really what makes work. Looks like it works up to 3.6.0. I swear it wasn't last night but now it is 😢 Whatever version, you use, make sure you can find "shader to rgb" and "specular bsdf" before you start.

I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING EVERYWHERE FOR ARCANE STYLE TUTORIALS! AND YOU GUYS (OUT OF EVERYONE) WERE THE ONES TO DO IT! Thanksss

Absolutely DOWN for this! Can't wait to watch, thank you so much!

In case anyone else was having "weird" behavior with shadows: remember your WORLD COLOR and STRENGTH contribute to illuminating Diffuse BSDF. I had to tweak the world shader with a Light Path node by mixing a 0 strength background in using "IsDiffuseRay" as factor. That's because my 50% gray strength 1 world was lighting the hair, thus not giving the shadows in the video. Top tier tutorial as always LBS! I am astounded I'm learning so much for free and looking forward to part 2!

Legitimately the best NPR blender tutorials I’ve found on RU-vid. Thank you so much for your detailed explanation of everything!

WOW. I can't even begin to say how helpful this is!! Thank you so much for all of this research, and putting it into a cohesive tutorial for us all to learn from (the way you broke down the process for creating the hair was mind-blowing!) I will definitely be using this for my projects. You're a lifesaver!

GORGEOUS!! As soon as Arcane came out I looked everywhere for tutorials and this is one of the only ones that actually look like the show

I was skeptical, but this honestly one of the best hair tutorials I've ever seen. Thanks.

Aside from a neat shader, this video has some excellent insights into how Evee works with respect to shadows, translucency, and other details.

Every time I watch one of your videos, I'm amazed at how clear you are and how much knowledge you send over to us!

A year ago Lightning Boy Studio quickly became one of my favourite Blender tutorial content creators. The techniques they teach and the styles they use appear stunningly beautiful for how easy it is to understand and works in countless scenarios. It's been a while since we've been graced with a video, and WOW they never disappoint. I am so excited to watch this series and can't wait to hear more info on their other projects!

The approach of having just 1 control hair per clump and the material knowledge shared here is amazing. This provided the perfect approach that didn't crash my rig trying to render. Thank you so much!

I'm so happy you're doing this! Absolutely loved working through your other tutorials and I'm super excited to start this one! You guys are awesome!

Ive been pointing people to your tutorials ever since arcane drew such interest to npr shaders. Now I have the perfect video to link them to, thanks so much!

Yessss! Welcome back!

This is fantastic! Your ingenuity never seizes to amaze me. Great work!

SO HAPPY YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER TUTORIAL OUT! Love these, and you're one of the few doing this style of tutorial. :)

this is one of the most unique and amazing tutorials for shaders props to you

I've been waiting for your next tutorial for AGES!! And you've done now a tutorial from one of my favorite shows? I love you guys so much!!!

Your content is invaluable! Really appreciate all the effort you put into developing the techniques in the first place and then into explaining and sharing it! All the best!

The whole time I was watching Arcane I was thinking "I can't wait to see LBS's take on this style!" so looking forward to the rest of this series and incorporating these tricks into my workflow with the Lightening Boy Shader addon!

god, your cell shaded work with blender, and the fact that your shaders are explained and sold and shared with the community, is world class quality, both the work AND yourself!

Can't wait for Part 2 - This is a brilliant tutorial series!

Amazing video.

If anyone cant find the mix rgb node, just add the "mix" Node and then change the setting from float to colour which will then turn the mix node into the mix rgb node

Bro this is fantastic thanks so much! The extra demonstrations really helped me to understand the difference between the diffuse, transparnt and translucent shaders

I just stumbled upon this and found the title intriguing cuz I've never seen or heard about an "Arcane Style Hair" tutorial. I've only seen sculpts, texturing, etc. This was was very inspiring, exciting and educational to convert me to using Blender. You literally got the base look of the Arcane style hair in less than 10 minutes before all the detail control. Thank you for so generously sharing your knowledge and techniques. I will be turning on notifications on your channel. Your Kickstarter game looks amazing too. Will have to support it on Kickstarter.

Can't wait for part 2! This tuotrial is so detailed, and looks actually like the original thing!

OMG YES!!!! I´ve needed this series since I felt in love with Arcane! You, my good sir, are a Hero. 💥

Tutorials like these is what keeps me going.

Amazing deconstruction of an Arcane style hair shader! Can't wait to see more! I'd love to see you go a little further in terms of how you go about rigging/skinning the hair as well. Looking forward to Part 2 :)

Amazing guys!!! thank you so much for this David!!! your last toon shader tutorial is till one of my favorite tutorial series, that I implemented in many of me work. Cant wait to dive in...

You have to enable the children option in the top right corner of the window before painting your strands, then the preview is working in "Particle Edit"

THIS Oml I have been searching so hard for a blender arcane tutorial thank you so much for making this!

Marvelous! You guys did it again!

Fantastic! And the world of Tidal Blades is so beautiful and inspiring.

Thank you SO much for this tutorial, I'd been trying to do something similar to arcane-style hair with curves and never quite managed it, but this looks spot on and I'll definitely be giving it a try!

Great tutorial!! The materials differences explanation is also a PLUS! Thank you!

Thanks a lot! It is awesome to see channel that focuses on stylized stuff.

yessssssss, this is what i was waiting for since Arcane came out. Immediately subscribed!

For Blender, the first and last tutorial we need. Cause it's PERFECT!

You are absolutely the best! Thank you for teaching us =) I love your tutorials and awesome style!

Your videos are just packed with so much incredible information. Thanks so much for these explanations!

Magnificent tutorial, well explained and straight to the point. Great job.

Yes! Amazing! Thank you SO much, this is so well put together & paced. Definitely looking forward to more!

OMG have loved you guys since Le Gouffre...so glad to see you post again...and it didn't disappoint!

Bro i ain't gonna lie i saw everyday different way to modelling a hair on RU-vid, but this type modeling blowing my head that's so interesting way. Thanks for your effort.

I had this idea of making comic with 3d assets and arcane really fits that style so this truly helps! Thanks a lot!

SO GLAD to have you back! Your series helped me tons with NPR and I'm super excited for this series.

One of the best tutorials I have seen! Thank you very very much for this quality 👌🙏

Great tut! Arcane is the catalyst driving me back into animating. I fell in love with the art style and the way Fortiche combined 2D & 3D to create a beautiful and unique look. At least to me it is unique. I haven't watched a ton of anime or other animations. I've been away from animation and blender for about a year. When I opened blender I realized that I have forgotten everything. I was back to figuring out how to move my view around with the middle mouse button! I'll probably need to run through the donut tut again just to relearn menus and hotkeys 🤨 I used to work more with realistic styles, especially when it comes to hair, but like I said Arcane's style is so inspirational. Now I want to learn more stylized techniques. Your 2 videos about Arcane are great! I wish you would have been able to make more videos specific to Arcane, but I appreciate the videos you were able to make. Cheers!

you are by FFAAAARRR the most underrated blender tutorial Channel

thank you for the hard work, I'm sure aspiring animators are gonna love this.

thank you for these high quality tutorials

you guys are doing gods work with these tutorials

Just can't express how great it is

Damn! Thank you so much brother,can't wait for the full series.

I can't wait to try this out later on, you killed it with another great tutorial :D

A very informative and well-spoken tutorial, some quality tutorial content right here!

After 8 long months the legends have returned, I am so hyped.

lovely! can't wait for part 2.

i always learn so much from your tutorials, thank you so much for sharing!! can't wait to try making some arcane hair ^-^

That explanation for the transparent shader was so helpful!

whoa this is so cool!! Loving this series hehe

dude this is nuts!!!

Oh man this is exactly what I've been needing! Thanks for the video!

Impressively done, very well explained too - you're a great teacher! Definitely looking forward to more 😊

This is insane! I really love it. I follow you since i saw your Ghibli's style video and i loved it as well! Keep doing these amazing stuff. I really love them all.

That is a crazy good result. The process just makes so much sense in video form, had this been any other format I would've discarded it as black magic. There are so many (at least to me) obscure ways of working and doing hair that would have taken me quite some time to research and apply. Thank you for sharing.

YES! I've been dying for someone to make a tutorial like this!

Awesome Blender content man. Don’t know if I’m gonna make something like this ever but the technic it’s just genius! Also heaps of great information!!

This was just about hair!!! An awesome class, Man!!! Thanks and Congratulations!!!

GREAT STUFF!!! Can't wait for more tuts!

You my man keeps proving my theory, wish I believe is confirmed, and that is you are a GENIUS! Albert Einstein once said: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." The way you explain things very simply even for a beginner like me in your tutorials, through observing and understanding what you see to s very abstracted level then building up from there, shows how much you understand and know what you're doing beyond Blender. We're very luck to be in a time to access such powerful knowledge at our chairs...for free. I appreciate you

Thanks, I've been looking for this for a long time!

Finally more videos to watch from you guys ! I've worn out the other ones by playing them too often. Also, please, do more LBS tutorial cos I love your shader, using it as much as I can, but still so many things I dunno how to do... Would love to learn more from you ! Thanks again for sharing all your knowledge et bon courage pour la suite ! :)

God! You know how to surprise! Thank you very much! You are my heroes guys!

In 3.2 they changed the Hair Info node to the Curve Info node.

This looks so good!

This is amazing period

Thanks for coming back

Wow, this is great. It works really well with curly hair, too. I tweaked the settings a bit to match my 2D painterly style, which I've always wanted to convert to 3D. Thank you so much for this tutorial!!

WONDERFUL

I was actually just adjusting the LBS 2.0 to do a personal project with a similar art style to Arcane, and my one concern was the hair. Absolutely amazing timing, thanks again David and team!

Can't wait for the next video!!!

This is brilliant, dude.

Wow, just wow. So many useful infos in one video. Thanks.

i was skeptical at first, but as it went on i became much more impressed.

perfect voice, perfect lesson, perfect result😍

Thats just AMAZING!

very well done, thank you

This is fantastic!

I can't siply discribe how awesome it is! Intro looks magnificent, and you decide to publish secret of creation process, damn... And the boardgame also looks cool, I pumped!

Sick looking board game and thanks for this tutorial series!

this is amazing! Thanks for making this

THIS VIDEO IS A GOD SEND OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH

Looking forward to part 2!

great job, very inspiring

Their back!