Hair generation and shading Maya plug-in SFX tricks of the trade

Hair in computer graphics can be simulated and rendered with very high quality but also at high rendering times. There are several methods that produce very good visual results in real-time applications for both hair simulations and shading. This report presents some of these methods such as Marschner, Kajiya-Kay shading models, hair generation and other models in detail which are combined into a Maya plug-in that renders the generated hair in real-time in the viewport.