Creating cottonballs in vray.

#1

Hi all, have been fiddling around trying to create a realistic cottonball in maya
Has anyone done anything similar?

I have resorted to use vray fur to get the fussiness but i dont feel i get it all the way to getting realistic.

The look i get is acceptable, the problem is that i need to animate the scale of the object, and keying the hair length to match the scale on the object looks very weird.

This is the look im after

#2

You can scale object shape, not transform (with the help of scaling cluster for example), but then you will get balder fur with bigger scale.

#3

Yes it seems kinda impossible to match the look from one state to another without it showing it in between.

#4

Just want to say nice job on the cotton ball bud!