Opera - I honestly don't know. As I said, I'm a newbie animator. You can increase the number of strands very easily (no need to even run the simulation again). But to change the texture...I'm not sure how to do that. Easily, I mean. Obviously, you could frame by frame it.

Pigfish...you don't need a high-end computer to do animations like this. You just need strategy. Simulations run much faster if the model is low-res. The hair sim was done using a low-res proxy. (I used Kirwyn's "Genesis Hair" proxy, but you can parent primitives to the figure and use those as collision objects instead.) The hair itself is also very low-res (a low-res skullcap is crucial). It took about a minute. Without the low-res hair and proxy figure, my computer would have crashed.

And another note on OurMedia.org...they offer two ways to upload files. One is to upload through their Web site. The other is to download a small app, install it, and use that to upload media. The latter works much better for uploading large files. Anything over a couple of Mb, you should probably use the app.

And don't worry about ads or spyware. It's clean.