Patent ID: 7872654

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of animating hair, the method comprising: performing a first simulation to deform sets of hairs using pose controllers, each set of hairs having a plurality of individual hairs, wherein, for any one of the sets of hairs, one or more of the pose controllers are applied to all of the individual hairs of the set of hairs together to deform all of the individual hairs together; and performing a second simulation to apply dynamics to one or more of the individual hairs of the sets of hairs, wherein, for any one of the sets of hairs, the dynamics are applied separately to the individual hairs of the set of hairs, and wherein, for any individual hair in any one of the sets of hairs, a first deformation is applied to a vertex of the individual hair in the first simulation and a second deformation is applied to the same vertex in the second simulation.