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Blender For Noobs – How to create hair in Cycles – part 1

Part 2: http://youtu.be/00gn0VdLYY0
Part 3: http://youtu.be/WkaG1ZUf1B4

An overview of how to create realistic hair that you can render in Cycles. For a more detailed explanation of many of the options involved with creating hair particles, check out this Blender Training tutorial by Matt Heimlich:

It is mostly Blender Internal, but most of the settings still apply.

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