Faking Hair Strands

[user_deleted]

I just want a couple of hair strands dangling before my character's face.

As it turns out I have a couple of hair strands filmed against greenscreen and I am wondering if these could be mapped to cloth strips attached to the head...

the great thing about these filmed strands is that they have a bit of breeze in them, and are very complex (strands intertwined, some fluttering in the breeze, some hardly moving, etc, very realistic) and I would bet that just giving them a bit of dynamics would sell it... so I don't have to simulate hair.

My question is this: how can I make sure those cloth strips are always facing the camera? Obviously I don't want to ever be looking at them at a 90 degree angle and see that they are flat strips...

I just don't see how to do this because if I constrain them in any way, I am overpowering the dynamics of the cloth...

Any ideas?

[pyrokinesis]

you could map the image sequence onto sprites which live forever, and have no speed. It could work well if you are willing to take the time to write the expressions.

A more simple solution would be to use a nurbs object, and deform it with a soft body lattice, or manually deform it with clusters. I have done this myself, and it works well.