Poser Universe

Lets add some dynamic hair to our scene.

The hair we just loaded in is a prop (you can tell if it appears on the right hand side of our object list)
Not all hair is a prop.
To attach the hair (prop) to a person we PARENT it to the persons head.

Lets parent it. Make sure you have the hair selected. Here it is in the prop list.

The prop is also an object so we go to the object menu.

Lets attach the hair to Judy's head.

Save your work as a Pozer file - So we can reuse it latter if need be.

Lets now move in close by selecting the face camera. This can be done 2 ways.

The Focal length is as for a 35mm film camarea.
Focal lengths of 70-90 mm improve the perspective on faces, "the old portrait lens"
Dolly Z moves trhe camera in and out
Dolly Y moves the camera up and down.
Dolly X moves the camara left and right.

Set up our scene for rendering

and
Production - for final renders - use draft while testing
Firefly is the best quality.
We want a larger render than our document window so we
Render to a new window and set the final render size
We also render a gainst a black background if need be - It does'nt really matter
unless you have imprted another background - the subject of another tut maybe.
You can save your setting or render now - I will save my settings for this scene..
The P6 render settings are a little different - however the same principals apply.

Lets Render - This will open up the new window and take a few minutes, depending upon the size of your window.

So lets adjust our render settings so the render looks the same as our camera view. This was done latter for this tut!

And render in the new pic size again.

Lets save our render for compositing in a Paint program.
P6 varies quite a bit at this point - for P6 just close your rendered pic and you will be prompted to save it.
For P5 it's a menu choice.

and . I like to save mine as tiffs because they have a transparent Alpha channel and my PSP7 doesn't like PNG's

Here it is in after being extraced via the Alpha channel (PSP7)
Composited with a gradient layer.
Notice how the strands of hair come out - you don't need a magic wand.
This pic is done with default Poser 5 Characters, Hair and lighting and could be considerably improved.