Styling and Rendering Long Hair with Blender and Cycles

Hair Rendering in Cycles Training Series
Blender 2.66 has been released (check out Jonathan’s overview) and with it Cycles’ strand-rendering. This enables us to achieve believable hairstyles with relative ease, compared to the former Blender Internal method. However, shading and rendering is only half the battle. Strand editing and styling is where the war of believable hair is won or lost.