@ operaguy:

This is also "Wild Hair", but with my own shader applied, and all bells & whistles switched on (raytrace, cast shadows, light emitter).

Of course this put a heavy toll on my rendering time: Almost three hours! [1]

But you can't have quality for nothing. The only consolation is that the smaller the render (unlike this full-blown portrait) is, the faster it will render.

So it's up to you to decide what you want: A few hair strings hung on a skull, or a nice looking hair. You must weigh the pro's and con's. And I even know of some people who let such a portrait render cook for a day!

The meme "having a bad hair day" is certainly applicable to Poser if you set it up wrong..

K

FOOTNOTE [1]:

Don't despair! The "Wild Hair" is a beast to render even with the lowest settings, just because of it's amount of strands and their very high polycount (almost 47,000 polys altogether)