Big Hair Wig, Version One

[brkurt]

The first of a series of wig creation tutorials using the Makehuman base mesh. I'm using Blender 2.49b--because I've got a 15 unit render farm set up--but this should work on any 3d editor. Basically, a 'scalp' vertex group needs to be created, and then longitudinal creases to create a usable UV map. I'm going to change this model, because once I animated it, it was easy to see that the strands could have been chosen better.

here is the first animation, using 168 strands:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Du4nxyn4GY

here are two screen captures to show how I did this:



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