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hey anons
I started learning how to make anime characters but I ran into a bit of trouble
basically the tutorial I'm following makes hair from curves turned into meshes, but I later realized that the character I picked for practice has her hair as a single conjoined shape rather than a bunch of strands of hair
I tried merging the vertexes on the meshes I had but that led to some piss poor results so I think starting the hair over is the best course of action
problem is that my beginner mind can't really think of a way to make it so it would lead to a good result and trying it out practically of course didn't work as well
I'd appreciate if anyone here has any suggestions on how to approach this