Ephere Ornatrix - a complete hair, fur, and feather solution is now on Maya.
Key features:
Procedural hair
Friendly operator stack workflow for building hair
Strand groups for non-destructive filtering
Multiple dynamics options for all types of simulation
Familiar iterative refinement workflow
Easy to use groom preset system
Intuitive modeling tools
Brush, comb, and cut hair
Quickly define flow of fur on a surface with arrows
Frizz, curl, clump, and braid hair procedurally
Style hair by dragging control points
Use mesh strips to generate hair
Tight Maya integration
Works within Maya shape and nodes framework
Friendly shelf for a quick start
Rich 3rd-party renderer support
Easy SDK for access and extensions
Variety of import, export, and interop options
Feathers and foliage
Procedural feathers with control over shape and rotation
Blend multiple UV sets for advanced texturing
Scatter control over materials and shaders
Custom proxy mesh scattering over hair
Propagation controls for growing hair on hair
，主要是解决一些头发和头发形状结构的问题，让图像看起来更加的逼真。对于制作CG动画来说，头发和毛皮一直都面临着重大的挑战，这款工具能够在处理更加细节地方。它采用的是各种自动化工具，这样就简化了工作流程。