As someone who’s spent a lot of their career working on digital humans and respective tooling, seeing research into curly hair is a breath of fresh hair. It’s

As someone who’s spent a lot of their career working on digital humans and respective tooling, seeing research into curly hair is a breath of fresh hair. It’s really difficult to approximate the same way that straight hair is done and there is definitely a very high amount of Eurocentric R&D in this space, which means anything other than a slight frizz doesn’t move right, and has difficulty in rendering correctly. Hair weight specifically is one that is extremely hard to get right and even harder when it’s wet. I also really recommend watching Theodore Kims talks. He’s ex Pixar and highly respected in the field. He’s done fantastic work in highlighting the lack of research for non-straight hair and non-white skin among other things. This talk has been hugely impactful on me and my own work that many millions of people have seen on the big screen and not realized were digital, in no small part because it highlighted what we were missing. https://youtu.be/ROuE8xYLpX8?si=qUJ0BvcPDyEKOYLk https://youtu.be/ROuE8xYLpX8?si=qUJ0BvcPDyEKOYLk People might not understand the importance, but it’s hugely significant to call out the lack of research so that we as an industry can fill that hole and improve our own work. We need to represent a wide range of digital humans , and a lack of technology/research to represent them means our work doesn’t hold up as strongly.