iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Thankyou! No not really that’s kinda out of my expertise 🥲 usually any additional changes I make based on the needs of the project

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Latest haircards I've been working on coming in at 24k tris. I wanted to use this as a challenge that I've been working on recently to not only make good hairstyles but make them good and lowpoly which I feel is going well! More renders on artstation: www.artstation.com/artwork/dyvan1

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Been gently chipping away at a simple ponytail. I'm currently having to ration personal work due to wrist/hand pain that I like to think is from lifting heavy at the gym but is likely due to getting older and always working catching up to me 🥲

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Very excited to share my realtime hair flipbox in collaboration with @flippednormals.bsky.social You will get a bunch of my hair assets and tutorials all for a fraction of the price! flippednormals.com/products/the...

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is a great opportunity if you're looking to get into hair- you will receive 3 video tutorials going from a hair introduction, to advanced, to eyebrows/eyelashes. AND you will also get the accompanying assets to my free hair tutorials for black hair which are here: www.artstation.com/hazelbrown

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Hazel Brown

Lead Hair Artist @ Roarty Digital

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Wrapped up my latest XGen groom based on a hairstyle from 'The Last Duel'. There's still a few things that I'm not entirely happy with but was ready to finish this off!

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Based on the hairstyle from the last duel. great hair, did not like the film

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I feel like its very easy to make braids look like they've been obviously generated in xgen with lots of intersecting strands which looses the tightly pulled feel, hoping to get away from that

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My least favourite thing to do in xgen is braids, so naturally I'm torturing myself with doing a braid heavy hairstyle (very early wip)

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Re-rendering old hairs in unreal while I'm cooking some other stuff www.artstation.com/artwork/gReNOQ

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

True! I'd want to make one full process hair tutorial per year at this rate 😆

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D.J. Kirkland @ohheydj.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Yet another reminder for all the non-black comic book artists out there. The same around of research and reference pulling y’all do for everything else in your work, do the same amount of research for black people. Especially our hair. There’s literally no excuse.

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I love the fact I'm constantly learning but its so frustrating that I constantly feel like my hair tutorials are getting outdated all the time😭

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A look at the highpoly as well- its been really fun to dabble back in character art again, especially on a project that's been on my inspo board for years

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Being absolutely done in by feathers that have feathers on their feathers 😮‍💨 Next up is the fox tail groom before I go on to retopology and the costume again

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

First pass of the hair after getting all the guides in.. must admit I think I'm cooking with this one

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Time to refine the shapes and work on modifiers

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

First pass of the hair after getting all the guides in.. must admit I think I'm cooking with this one

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Got far enough to justify getting some hair going as a treat

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Reposting a message I put out to my discord group, figured I'd post here just in case: linktr.ee/hazel.brown

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Getting some clothes blocked in! She's looking a bit yassified and glam at the moment but will circle back to the face once i get some more stuff in

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Been a good year! Here's to more in 2026 🎉

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

No, I don’t use ai tools in my workflow and I won’t in the future

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Thankyou! Its difficult to say- I've spent a few evenings on this so far though

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Attempting a gentle Keira Knightley likeness (not putting too much pressure on myself with that because I don't enjoy it) and then going sicko mode on the hair and outfit (doing a strand groom with this one)

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Trying to lock in and remind myself how to make characters (hair will be insane on this one though) #WIP

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Thankyou for everyone's help on this! Turned out it was having nanite support checked on in the mesh- I think I'm going to turn it off entirely for any hair lookdev projects going forwards 😂

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

It was! I turned it off in the mesh first which didn't change but then I turned it off in the project, restarted and it worked, then turned it back on in the project but off in the mesh and I'm all good now :D Thankyou so much!

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The mesh viewer was a good sanity check thankyou! It was still a problem in there, turns out it was having 'nanite support' turned on on the mesh that was causing it

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Tried that, also unlocked the normals in maya and imported it as a new mesh with the settings unchecked but still the same 😭

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

None that I can see- it looks fine in marmoset so I'm thinking its a weird unreal quirk

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

No difference unfortunately :(

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I think it could be something in the shader it doesn't like- when I put a basic flat material on it the normals look alright 🤔

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This is rendered in unreal engine 6 I believe its just the standard metahuman level set up

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Textures created in xGen and placed in maya

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Can any unreal wizards help me understand why I'm getting these hard edges on my haircards in ue6? The mesh itself is smooth etc. I've seen others with the same issue but haven't found a solution

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I wish my parents thought about my potential personal branding when choosing my name

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

To get the most out of this I highly recommend starting with @delwalker.bsky.social 's "Brows In Detail - An Artists Guide to Understanding Eyebrows" presentation to get a solid foundation for all things brows before you then make them in 3D: delwalker.gumroad.com/l/brows

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Brows In Detail - An Artists Guide to Understanding Eyebrows

A 60+ min video presentation on eyebrows for the visual artist. This is not a tutorial on how to draw eyebrows, but it will give you the tools on HOW eyebrows work and are constructed – You will have ...

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Its here! My realtime eyebrows and eyelashes tutorial www.artstation.com/a/51040229

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Almost done- realised right at the end of recording I didn’t increase the resolution of the saved videos from obs 🙃 it shouldn’t make a huge difference overall but just not as crisp as I would usually like

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Hair cards! I'm also going to do a quick XGen run down for baking to a cap/the character's head

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Eyebrows/Eyelashes tutorial coming soon

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I'm going to be putting together a quick eyebrows and eyelash tutorial since its by far my most requested tutorial- does anybody have any questions/requests for me to cover?

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Hazel Brown @hazelbrown.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Happy to share my most recent XGen groom since full grooms are sorely lacking in my portfolio! Slowly coming round to enjoying the xgen process Check it out on artstation: www.artstation.com/artwork/eR6BQ6

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