Lynda.com - Creating Hair with Maya nHair

Get tried and true techniques for creating, styling, animating, and rendering hair with nHair in Autodesk Maya. Aaron F. Ross will show you how to prepare your mesh; control for stiffness, shape, and curl; trim and extend follicles; style hair with curves; and adjust color, translucency, and specular highlights. The last chapter shows you how to render nHair with Maya and mental ray.

Topics include:

Prepping a model for hair

Adding nHair

Setting dynamic properties

Adjusting clump, curl, and twist

Painting follicle attributes

Creating long hairstyles with curves

Applying nConstraints

Creating and rendering an nCache