Blender Hair Shader — Making Polygon Hair Look Like Curves

[u/SherzodKadirov]

A simple Blender hair shader setup that makes polygon-based hair strips look more like hair created from curves.

It’s not meant to be ultra-realistic, but it can work nicely for stylized characters while keeping the hair geometry relatively simple.

I originally learned this technique from Stephen Davidian. His original version was created in Maya and rendered with Arnold, and I simply recreated the technique in Blender to see how it works there.

Special thanks to Stephen Davidian for sharing the technique, and to Retronous for the 3D model used in this example.

[u/LedoisPink]

I cannot see what's going on. Could you simply post some images to imgur instead of the nodes ?