by young·Modeling
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Anime Hair Maker earns its place in the Superhive library for combining several hair-creation methods — sculpting, planting, drawing, and particle conversion — with a non-destructive workflow that backs up your originals.
Anime Hair Maker extends Blender with several methods for populating anime-style hair strands. You can sculpt with the new hair system, plant hairs using a modal operator, draw bezier hairs directly, or convert from legacy particle hairs. Bevel and taper profiles are applied with a click, and included curve tools handle manipulation.
The addon ships with 9 commonly used bevel shapes and can generate curl and braid hair, with strand variations of 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. You can turn hair from the new hair system into curves, fine-tune them, and convert curl or braid hair back into individual strands for further editing. Hair curves can be converted to mesh objects, with options to merge the pointy end, fill caps, and create a pin vertex group at the root for simulation. You can also create bones from curve points and add your own hair curve shapes.
The workflow is non-destructive: during conversion a backup is created, hidden, and placed in collections based on hair type. Hair color can be adjusted, and a multi-slider panel controls the size of each hair strand segment from root to tip.
Anime Hair Maker is best for blender artists creating anime-style hair who want multiple ways to build, convert, and refine hair strands.
Anime Hair Maker is completely free to download and use.
Anime Hair Maker has received compatibility updates across recent Blender releases: version 1.5.3 fixed compatibility with Blender 4.0, 1.5.4 added support for Blender 4.1, and 1.6 was reformatted to meet the Blender 4.2 extension platform standard. If you're on one of these versions, the addon is set up to work with your release. For any newer version of Blender, check the developer's page to confirm the latest supported release before downloading.
Anime Hair Maker works with Blender's new hair system as one of its strand-population methods. You can sculpt with the new hair system, then turn those hairs into curves and fine-tune them. From there you can make them simple hair, at which point they are poly curves, and optionally convert to a bezier curve so you can adjust length resolution. This sits alongside other creation methods, including planting hairs with a modal operator, drawing bezier hairs directly, and converting legacy particle hairs into curves.
Anime Hair Maker can convert hair curves into mesh objects. During conversion it offers toggle options to merge the pointy end, fill caps, and create a pin vertex group at the root position for simulation. As of the 1.5.1 update, you can also produce a mesh with square UVs for further texturing work. The conversion is non-destructive, so a hidden backup is created automatically, letting you return and adjust the original hair if needed.
Anime Hair Maker is listed as free in this catalog. Licensing terms and availability can change over time, so for current pricing and any usage conditions it's best to check the developer's page on Superhive before downloading. The addon covers a broad range of hair-creation tools, from sculpting and drawing strands to generating curls and braids and converting hair to mesh, so it's worth confirming the current version and terms directly at the source.
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