Ben Simonds shows you how achieve great looking hair in Blender.
Ben writes:
Hair used to be something I really hated having to do in CG, and to this day you’ll see more than a fair share of baldies amongst my works. However with more and more updates to blenders hair tools, it ‘s getting easier (and even fun!) to create characters and creatures with hair. This tutorial/guide covers working with hair particles in blender, including particle systems, combing/cutting/styling hair, and using the child particle settings.
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Thanks for this. It seems the links are not active (yet?).
I got to it by copying and pasting.
I think you got a cached version of this page - the link has been fixed.
Always happy to see new hair tutorials! But combing is half the battle... Would be awesome if he did a rendering-side one next.
Anyone would like to do a GSOC on hair simulation ? :D
check out this :
Super-Helices for Predicting the Dynamics of Natural Hair
Basile’s Website : http://www.lmm.jussieu.fr/~audoly/
video : http://www.lmm.jussieu.fr/~audoly/research/hair06/HairDVDVideoQT.html
paper : http://www.lmm.jussieu.fr/~audoly/research/hair06/BA_hair_siggraph06.pdf
Predicting Natural Hair Shapes by Solving the Statics of Flexible Rods
paper : http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Publications/2005/BAQLLC05/BertailsElectronicFinalEG.pdf
publication : http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Publications/2005/BAQLLC05/
video 1 : http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Publications/2005/BAQLLC05/astaticStrandEG05.mpg
video 2 : http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Publications/2005/BAQLLC05/fullModellingEG05.mpg
(just saying :p)
The pictures above are really a bit to dark to tell anything from.
Nice, great tutorial. Do you mind if I add this to my blog? I will credit you, of course.
Heh, anybody want to do a GSoC hair Global Illumination?
http://www.viz.tamu.edu/faculty/ergun/research/visualization/papers/tr06.pdf
(just saying :p)
Hey, I'm taking 2 classes from him right now! He really knows his stuff. Gig 'em!
@francoisgfx
your suggestion looks very yummy :)
I'm not a coder but I'll definitely donate for this project if it will be giving us a good solid result (that means - it will be useful as OceanSim - for example)
BTW - not everything but some tricks for this can be done with Softbody. Here is the really good site with fine tips:
http://www.pkblender.it/SoftBody/softbody_index.htm
@Nik
I hope that we'll see all this cool stuff in Blender 2.6!
^______^
Too dark to tell.
I think blender hair system should it own hair style library as well to edited too.Blender pro has it.
Thanks!