Quote - Carodan, I really like that "successful failure of yours", I don't think it is a failure at all. I would love to know how you achieved the combination of relatively straight hair with slight frizz - it looks very natural. The hairline also looks very convincing. I always have a problem with the hairline looking too obvious.

 

 

Thanks Nanette.

What I did was really simple. I used a high res skullcap and grew a single group of guide hairs with 60 verts per hair, which I pulled fully back and also down a little. I also selected each half of the group and slightly parted them for a very rough centre parting.

I used a transition between two poses on the animation time-line, starting with the head looking up and ending with the final pose you see in the render. I then ran the dynamic simulation, setting bend resistance quite low, spring strength & position and root stiffness to zero. The simulation took hours (with collisions on) while I was out so it isn't a very practical technique. you also can't then go back and do any more styling or you lose the dynamic draping.

I think the higher res skullcap has something to do with the final effect, contributing to the sheer density and randomness of the resulting strand positions.

 

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