Generating realistic human hair for "The Matrix Reloaded"

In recent years, there have been a few successful applications of realistic computer generated hair in the entertainment industry. For The Matrix Reloaded we had to face new challenges. First, we had to handle both close ups and scenes with hundreds of ...

This paper explores a sketch-based interface for quickly yet accurately creating visually realistic hair for virtual characters. Recently, physically-based models have proved successful for generating a wide variety of hair types, but they do not ...

Despite the visual importance of hair and the attention paid to hair modeling in the graphics research, modeling realistic hair still remains a very challenging task that can be performed by very few artists. In this paper we present hair meshes, a new ...