Add to the list Peregrine Labs’ Yeti, a nodal approach to creating hair and fur in Maya, Shave and a Haircut, and GroomBoy, and you soon realize that there is no shortage of tools.

There are plenty of hair and fur solutions for Autodesk Maya at the moment, including Maya’s native XGen, and legacy fur rendering tools. You can even turn the mesh back into guides if you like. Ornatrix allows you to quickly change parameters such as strand twisting.

Here, Marsel shows how easy it is to create meshed geometry from hair and guides.Īlso shown over the course of the demonstration is how Ornatrix can be used to grow any type of objects, besides hair or fur.

One of the features of Ornatrix is its ability to mesh both hair and guides.

One of the many useful parts of Ornatrix is the ability to mesh hair or guides. Here, the Cofounder and CEO of Ornatrix, Marsel Khadiyev, shows off one of the features for the popular hair and fur system, in Maya. Ephere Inc, the makers of the complete hair, fur and feather system for 3D Max have been porting the plugin over to Autodesk Maya.

Ornatrix for maya overview