final WIP post for this project, hair model is 90%+ done right now. Overall it's pretty much done, but I want to add some basic flyaway hairs and some "texturing" or break up, basically another quick layer of detail. This is typically when the hair gets a lot more realistic/ comes together so the more time you spend on it the better, but I'm not going to go too overboard for this one, as I want to get it over with at this point.
anyway, quite a bit of work went into this since the last update, finished layer3 and tweaked some of the previous layers. Also added the hair clips and tweaked the model so it would look right with those on. Those were definitely a pain to add, running the hair cards through them wasn't the best of times, but worth the hassle without a doubt, I think they look quite good.
polycount also almost doubled since last time, now sitting close to 50k tris. With the soon to be added flyaways, will probably be somewhere under 60k so about in line with some of my older, shorter hair models.
I will also probably do a variation on this style with a longer ponytail in the future (or maybe after I finish this, we'll see). I think a longer ponytail that goes in the front over the shoulder should look quite nice with the already existing base and should also be pretty quick to make. In any case, for this current style, I think another 2-3 days of work and it's done, so should be out soon.