Shave and a Haircut Tutorials

Popular highlights include: Shave Interface Overview; Using Hair Presets; Creating Hairstyles based on Curves; Growing and Scalping Techniques; Styling Guide Hairs using Brush and Cut Tools; Guide Selection Modes; Hair Attenuation; Popping Hairs; Shave Node Overview; Working with Various Attribute Maps; Frizzing to Create Ruffled Hair; Kinking to Create Curly and Wavy Hair; Using Multi-Strand Properties to Create Trendy Hairstyles; Setting Render Options with the Shave Globals; Exploring Hair Shadows and Lighting Techniques; Rendering and Compositing with Shave Buffer; Rendering Shave Hair with mental ray; Outputting Hair Passes; Setting Collision Surfaces; Driving Shave Hair with Maya Fields; Working with Shave Dynamics; Hair Instancing for Alternative Uses; Duplicating and Transferring Hairstyles.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Learning basic Shave Hair dynamics and collision; Using per-vertex particle effects; Exploring field attributes: Attenuation, Magnitude, and Max Distance. Gain a complete understanding of Shave and a Haircut, check out Introduction to Shave and a Haircut in Maya, a complete guide to learning the essentials of this popular application.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Replacing Hair with a different Preset ; Blending together multiple Presets for unique styles ; Saving a Hair Style as a Preset ; Accessing Personal Presets . To learn more about Shave and a Haircut check out Introduction to Shave and a Haircut in Maya, a complete guide to learning the essentials of this popular application.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Applying different surface to Shave and a Haircut nodes; Learning the advantages to using different techniques; Using NURBS, sub-division, and polygon surfaces. For a complete overview of Shave and a Haircut check out Introduction to Shave and a Haircut in Maya, a complete guide to learning the essentials of this popular application.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Learning to quickly duplicate any hair systems in a scene; Using the Multi-Clone tool to generate totally new objects; Customizing Hair systems; Create hair on Polygon faces to easily and quickly control the hairs location. ; Select the object to Multi-Clone, not the hair. ; Try Multi-Cloning an object with multiple Hair systems!. To learn more about the tools available in Shave and a Haircut, check out Introduction to Shave and a Haircut in Maya, a complete guide to learning the essentials of this popular application.

Topics covered in this tutorial: How to attach hair to objects; Tips on making hair simulations run efficiently ; Styling the hair system ; Clumping hair . Discover a comprehensive resource to learning Shave and a Haircut with Introduction to Shave and a Haircut in Maya, a complete guide to learning the essentials of this popular application.