OK SO.... I have not been rendering out Amys Big Wish yet because I have not settled on the type of hair we are going to be using. Originally, I wanted to use "real" hair (which looks beautiful)! However, in working with real hair, I quickly realized, it would add a LOT of extra time to the production. And while it looked beautiful, it seemed silly to add weeks of extra work to each animation for "real" hair (but gosh it looked so pretty... frowny sad face). At least I know in the future what it takes if I get to a point where this wouldn't slow things down so much,
BUT I have to start rendering the animation asap if I want to release it this month. So we need to figure this out!
WHICH MEANS, we are left with 2 choices: Polygon Hair or Hair Cards! (I apologize that the style is slightly different below).
EDIT: I added an end time of 8 AM CST tomorrow for this poll because I NEED to start rendering!
Polygon Hair:
- Faster renders (4 minutes 44 seconds for the below image)
- Less realism (though I can texture it a little to look more hair ish)
- More stylized look
Hair Cards:
- Slower renders (6 minutes 30 seconds for the below image )
- More realism