--- title: "HairDeck" kind: "Kit" category: "Developer" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/ffd85237-4923-4d35-bc07-23b4b1a09e92" updated: "2026-11-12" --- # HairDeck > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Turns one character image into stylized 3D hair cards with colors and spring-bone chains for animation, exported as GLB meshes or a VRM avatar. For avatar makers and 3D artists with a CUDA GPU. HairDeck is a kit in the Developer category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-12. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by hyz317 ## About ### What it is HairDeck is a set of models that turn a single character image into stylized hair for a 3D avatar. The hair comes as cards, which are flat mesh strips that each have their own UV map and colors, plus spring-bone chains that let the hair move when the avatar animates. You get the hair meshes as GLB files, and you can attach them to the avatar body that ships with the project and export a VRM 0.x avatar. ### Who it suits It suits 3D artists and avatar creators who want animation-ready hair from a picture instead of building it by hand. | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Games | 3D artists | Make animation-ready hair for a character from one image | Hair for a stylized game character | | Virtual avatars | Avatar creators | Build a VRM avatar with moving hair | Export an avatar with spring-bone hair | | Animation | Animators | Get hair meshes as GLB files for their tools | Import GLB hair into a 3D scene | | AI research | Researchers | Study generative models for hair cards | Compare the image path with the point-cloud path | If you want photoreal strand hair for film, you can skip it, since the output is stylized hair cards. ### Where to use it - A Linux machine with Python 3.12 and a CUDA GPU - The online demo that the card offers, as a first try - 3D tools that read GLB files, and apps that open VRM avatars | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Hair from an image | Artists | Hair-card meshes as GLB files | | Animated hair | Avatar creators | Spring-bone chains that move the hair | | Avatar export | Creators | A VRM avatar with the hair attached, plus a head-turn video | ### How to set it up You need these first: - A Linux computer with a CUDA GPU, running Python 3.12 - The project's code repository on GitHub, which the card links - Accepted SAM 3 and DINOv3 licences and a Hugging Face login, as the card describes - ffmpeg, if you want video previews 1. Follow the install instructions in the code repository. 2. Agree to the licences for SAM 3 and DINOv3, then sign in to Hugging Face. 3. From the code repository root, set the workspace folder and run the weights download script. 4. Run the image script on your character picture, then the export command. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download hyz317/HairDeck ``` ### How to use it Run the image script on your character picture and ask for four variations. They land in a results folder. Then run the export command for one variation to get a VRM avatar and a head-turn video. ```bash export HAIRDECK_ROOT=/path/to/workspace python scripts/setup/download_weights.py python scripts/image_to_hair.py character.png --out results/my_character --n 4 python -m hairdeck.vrm.export results/my_character/character 0 ``` | Tool | What it does | | --- | --- | | download\_weights.py | Fetches the model weights and the extra assets | | image\_to\_hair.py | Makes hair cards from a character image | | hairdeck.vrm.export | Builds a VRM avatar and a head-turn video for one variation | | ffmpeg | Needed for the video previews | ### Example You run the image script on a cartoon character picture and get four hair variations. You pick the first one, run the export command, and get a VRM avatar with the hair attached. The card does not show a finished result here, so treat this as an expectation. ### For newcomers and experts Hair cards are flat strips of mesh with the hair color painted on them, a common way to make hair for games. Spring bones are chains that swing so the hair moves. A good first step is the online demo, before you set up the code. The image path joins four models. The Image DiT makes hair-card tokens from the picture, the Card VAE turns each token into card geometry, the Color DiT paints the cards, and the Chain DiT adds the spring-bone chains. A separate point-cloud model feeds another path. Give a character image → The Image DiT makes hair-card tokens → The Card VAE builds the card geometry → The Color and Chain models add colors and spring bones ### Good to know The setup pulls in outside models, and each comes with its own terms. - Access: SAM 3 and DINOv3 need their licences accepted before setup works - Outside models: Dora-VAE, BiRefNet-matting, SAM 3 and DINOv3 are pulled in from their own repositories - Evaluation assets: optional, and the default download skips them - License: Apache 2.0 for this repository, and the outside models carry their own licences - Cost to run: none named, you supply the GPU - Data it reaches: the character images you give it, and the extra models fetched from other repositories ## README ````markdown # HairDeck Turns one character image into stylized 3D hair cards with colors and spring-bone chains for animation, exported as GLB meshes or a VRM avatar. For avatar makers and 3D artists with a CUDA GPU. Made by hyz317 on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its model page and model card; the model's own files and license are on Hugging Face. ## About What it is: HairDeck is a set of models that turn a single character image into stylized hair for a 3D avatar. The hair comes as cards, which are flat mesh strips that each have their own UV map and colors, plus spring-bone chains that let the hair move when the avatar animates. You get the hair meshes as GLB files, and you can attach them to the avatar body that ships with the project and export a VRM 0.x avatar. Who it suits: It suits 3D artists and avatar creators who want animation-ready hair from a picture instead of building it by hand. ```table Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example Games | 3D artists | Make animation-ready hair for a character from one image | Hair for a stylized game character Virtual avatars | Avatar creators | Build a VRM avatar with moving hair | Export an avatar with spring-bone hair Animation | Animators | Get hair meshes as GLB files for their tools | Import GLB hair into a 3D scene AI research | Researchers | Study generative models for hair cards | Compare the image path with the point-cloud path ``` If you want photoreal strand hair for film, you can skip it, since the output is stylized hair cards. Where to use it: - A Linux machine with Python 3.12 and a CUDA GPU - The online demo that the card offers, as a first try - 3D tools that read GLB files, and apps that open VRM avatars ```table Use case | Who | What they get back Hair from an image | Artists | Hair-card meshes as GLB files Animated hair | Avatar creators | Spring-bone chains that move the hair Avatar export | Creators | A VRM avatar with the hair attached, plus a head-turn video ``` How to set it up: You need these first: - A Linux computer with a CUDA GPU, running Python 3.12 - The project's code repository on GitHub, which the card links - Accepted SAM 3 and DINOv3 licences and a Hugging Face login, as the card describes - ffmpeg, if you want video previews 1. Follow the install instructions in the code repository. 2. Agree to the licences for SAM 3 and DINOv3, then sign in to Hugging Face. 3. From the code repository root, set the workspace folder and run the weights download script. 4. Run the image script on your character picture, then the export command. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download hyz317/HairDeck ``` How to use it: Run the image script on your character picture and ask for four variations. They land in a results folder. Then run the export command for one variation to get a VRM avatar and a head-turn video. ```bash export HAIRDECK_ROOT=/path/to/workspace python scripts/setup/download_weights.py python scripts/image_to_hair.py character.png --out results/my_character --n 4 python -m hairdeck.vrm.export results/my_character/character 0 ``` ```table Tool | What it does download_weights.py | Fetches the model weights and the extra assets image_to_hair.py | Makes hair cards from a character image hairdeck.vrm.export | Builds a VRM avatar and a head-turn video for one variation ffmpeg | Needed for the video previews ``` Example: You run the image script on a cartoon character picture and get four hair variations. You pick the first one, run the export command, and get a VRM avatar with the hair attached. The card does not show a finished result here, so treat this as an expectation. For newcomers and experts: Hair cards are flat strips of mesh with the hair color painted on them, a common way to make hair for games. Spring bones are chains that swing so the hair moves. A good first step is the online demo, before you set up the code. The image path joins four models. The Image DiT makes hair-card tokens from the picture, the Card VAE turns each token into card geometry, the Color DiT paints the cards, and the Chain DiT adds the spring-bone chains. A separate point-cloud model feeds another path. ```flow Give a character image The Image DiT makes hair-card tokens The Card VAE builds the card geometry The Color and Chain models add colors and spring bones ``` Good to know: The setup pulls in outside models, and each comes with its own terms. - Access: SAM 3 and DINOv3 need their licences accepted before setup works - Outside models: Dora-VAE, BiRefNet-matting, SAM 3 and DINOv3 are pulled in from their own repositories - Evaluation assets: optional, and the default download skips them - License: Apache 2.0 for this repository, and the outside models carry their own licences - Cost to run: none named, you supply the GPU - Data it reaches: the character images you give it, and the extra models fetched from other repositories ## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026 - Task: image to 3d - Library: pytorch - Formats: Safetensors - Downloads in the last 30 days: 3,681 - Likes: 70 - License: apache-2.0 - Tags: pytorch, safetensors, 3d, anime, hair, hair-cards, diffusion, image-to-3d ## Links - Model: https://huggingface.co/hyz317/HairDeck - Files: https://huggingface.co/hyz317/HairDeck/tree/main ## Get the model Download its files with Hugging Face's command line: ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download hyz317/HairDeck ``` Then follow the usage in its model card. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 5 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 5 KB ``` ## Source [hyz317/HairDeck on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/hyz317/HairDeck) ## Compare with similar Listed Hugging Face models in the same category that share the most tags with this one. | Product | Downloads, last 30 days | Likes | Parameters | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | HairDeck (this page) | 3,681 | 70 | — | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-05 | | [Iris-3B by speridlabs](https://mindket.com/p/0abd1bcc-dae6-497c-b706-d6bc43cde2df) | 997 | 350 | 3B | apache-2.0 | 2026-10-12 | | [TripoSR by stabilityai](https://mindket.com/p/b00a08de-5718-446a-a706-75bf98636170) | 168,894 | 689 | — | mit | 2024-08-09 | | [Idol by speridlabs](https://mindket.com/p/424777aa-7160-46c4-8082-f73698dcefe5) | 31,367 | 2,259 | — | apache-2.0 | 2026-10-29 | | [Idol on LiteRT](https://mindket.com/p/b703ca5e-ac19-4810-a1b0-6e4eea44e092) | 1,066 | 5 | — | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-09 | | [Idol Turbo by speridlabs](https://mindket.com/p/c73efd7c-3784-4054-87eb-c0058c43b4d9) | 565 | 57 | — | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-03 | Numbers as Mindket last read them, from 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-13. ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-12. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Bluesky · Bytecut · 2026-11-03](https://bsky.app/profile/goldenrod8888.bsky.social/post/3mzg6edzh4h2i): 4 rigged hair variations from 1 image. Try it tonight\! HairDeck is open source. You get VRM export. You need Linux and an NVIDIA GPU. Source: https://github.com/hyz317/HairDeck Save this. Which avatar gets new hair first? \#OpenSource \#GameDev - [Bluesky · クマイモ🍠 · 2026-10-31](https://bsky.app/profile/future-beginner.bsky.social/post/3mz6s6hxm7k2p): github.com/hyz317/HairD... わくわく ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Last change on Hugging Face: 2026-11-05 - First published: 2026-10-27 - Checked on Hugging Face: 2026-11-12 - Something wrong? 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