Attached Link: http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/229960

***"Maxxx, that animation in the link above was done in 3dsmax also. Can you tell if he's using the same hair plugin you are, or is it something else?"*** That's Liam Kemp's "This Wonderful Life". It's a short movie he did in 3dsmax that won some awards, etc. Very well done. The HDRI render you refer to was done with the Vray rendering engine for Max I believe. As for the hair, I recall reading an article about this, in which he says he used a plugin called, Shag:Hair to create the strand-based hair. Shag:Hair is now known as HairFX, and is a different solution than what I've been using in my tests. I don't have that plugin. The one I'm using is "Hair and Fur", and it comes standard with 3dsmax version 7.5 and higher. I don't really know what the differences are, but from what I hear, HairFX is better. It also costs around $400 at Turbosquid. :-P

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.