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Watch Shave and a Haircut Tutorials and Training
course Introduction to Shave and a Haircut for Maya
3 hrs. 8 min. | Released on February 5, 2007
Required Software: Shave and a Haircut 4.5, Maya 8.5 Project Files Included (41 MB) Learn to style, texture, light, render, and dynamically drive hair using Shave and a Haircut for Maya. Contains over 3 hours of project-based training. Perfect for artists new to Shave and a Haircut for Maya.
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. Field Tricks for Shave Dynamics
7 min. 8 sec. | Released on January 1, 2008
Required Software: Shave and a Haircut 4.5 and up Project Files Included (197 KB) In this lesson we will learn how to use fields and particles to create realistic forces for Shave Hair dynamics.
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. Shave and a Haircut Presets
3 min. 11 sec. | Released on February 19, 2007
Required Software: Shave and a Haircut 4.5 and up In this lesson we will learn how to use the preset Hair systems as well as add new customized presets. Storing Hair Styles through Presets is a nifty way to speed up the Shave and a Haircut workflow.
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. Creating Hair on Surfaces
3 min. 7 sec. | Released on February 19, 2007
Required Software: Shave and a Haircut 4.5 and up In this lesson we will explore the different methods of creating Hair.
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. Shave and a Haircut Multiclone tool
4 min. 28 sec. | Released on November 21, 2006
Required Software: Shave and a Haircut 4.5 and up Project Files Included (10 KB) In this lesson we will learn how to use the Multi-Clone tool to create copies of hair systems.
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. Using Shave and a Haircut 101
7 min. 50 sec. | Released on November 21, 2006
Required Software: Shave and a Haircut 4.5 and up Project Files Included (143 KB) In this lesson we will learn how to use Shave and a Haircut in Maya, one of the most powerful features on the market that was used on parts of the pipeline for feature films including King Kong, X-Men 2, and Underworld 2.
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. |
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