Dear Friend:

I hope that you feel alright.

I would like to know, if possible, how super-realistic and shiny hair could be created in Poser v.5. I would like to apply a shader that would give the hair tints of black for contrast, but mainly blond, chocolate brown, and possibly also red coloration to the hair. Lastly, I would like the hair strands to appear very convincing, in terms of the illusion being created.

I have enclosed an image that comes very close to the type of hair that I want to learn to create. It was done by 'Bekhi' at Renderosity. It appears on top of this message. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Fidelity2,

I might be wrong on this, but it looks as though Bekhi superimposed a Poser face onto a photo, so the hair and body are actually a photograph.

Yeah, I agree. It definately looks like a photo with a Poser-rendered face added in postwork.

Fidelity, TO get close to that look with a pure poser model will require that you either post work the hair entirely (ie draw it in a painter type program.) To ease this there are nice hair "tubes", some in free stuff, that can be used as a base for your painting. Or select a hair model that is close to the look you want, render the picture and toch it up in a painter type program. If you are new at this this is probably the best option to get 3d looking hair. Most realistic looking hair in poser is don;t with one of those two methods. Some people seem to have sucess with "out of the box" hair but that situation is few and far between. mike

Actually that sorta looks like Quarker's Silky Long Hair in the image.. I hope someday a hair comes along tha can do it all..pose, longer or shorter, curl or straight.etc etc with just one click :0)