Hair & Blink Test

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I spent all day trying various ways of getting a particle hair simulation to work well AND render in a reasonable amount of time.  After two or three (or four) false starts, I finally landed on something that seems pretty OK.  It is still a tremendous annoyance to manage, but it looks pretty good for now.  It's a bit shorter, but also feels a little more modern.

Anyway, I did some quick flirty animation stuff to make her hair move (and to give me an excuse to have her blink all seductive-like), and here it is.  We're back to the white cube room for render-time speed since this is just a test, and I rendered much smaller than the fancy turnaround animation.  Render time was around an hour and a half.

I also slowed playback speed to 24fps from NTSC when I encoded from the raw frames to make it last a little longer, since it's only a 2s animation @ NTSC.

Included are some larger-res versions of some of the more compelling frames.  I'm quite pleased with them, really.

Uncertain if this hair will stay, but it seems fairly stable for now.  We'll see.

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