Need Animating Hair Tutorial

jaakay · Post by **jaakay** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:22 am

Hi All,

Is there anyone that can point me in the right direction to view a tutorial on animating a characters hair. As a beginner I need a step by step if anyone knows of one.

Thanks in advance.

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:16 am

You need to know how hair works in real life first. Find some video and study it frame by frame. Long hair, short hair, in the wind, swinging, whatever.

Hair movement contains one or more of these kinemes: elastic stick (short hair), pendulum (long hair), hanging chain. In terms of animation you'll work with the whip movement, in terms of timing it's all Secondary motion and Follow through. See your copy of "Illusion of life" for reference.

See http://www.google.de/search?um=1&hl=en& ... 3&aql=&oq= for some inspiration.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:19 am

Most of the secret is on creating a good wave movement.

Take a look on this example:
viewtopic.php?t=15647

The same principle, plus relative cycles, works perfect:
viewtopic.php?p=94094

jaakay · Post by **jaakay** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:45 am

I have customised a character from the Character Wizard in ASP 8 and want to animate some ponytails.

Should I put the Head in a Bone layer which is within the character bone layer and add bones and then animate them. Is this how it is done?