Hi everyone! Last year, Blender added the Kuwahara filter as a node in their compositor. Which essentially creates a very crisp, painterly effect overtop of any footage. I’ve also seen this technique incorporated by others into software such as Unreal Engine. So I was just curious if there was any similar technique available for After Effects…

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Well luckily C4d does have an option to reduce the amount of points that it simulates with from the guides. So lowering it down to 1 or 2 at least allows me simulate a very slow version of the hair. I just wanted to know if there was some special C4D hair system features that would allow it to be easier. Unfortunately, Xgen hair is imported just…

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Sure! Here’s the stripped down C4D file. Unfortunately I don’t the xgen files to reference: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zhcg2n1i9irvzs4/Hair%20Sample.c4d?dl=0

So I’ve exported Xgen hair as an alembic and imported it into Cinema 4D as a hair object. That all looks and works fine, but the way it’s exported bakes every hair down into it’s own hair guide. So that makes simulating the hair subtly bouncing very difficult to do since it’s literally simulating every hair. I was wondering if there was any trick… Read more