« Cheveux » 2008-2011, is supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), in partnership with Cnrs-IJLRA, Inria-Grenoble, Bee-Light

"The MAYA plug in v1 is completed and ready to be used in production.

The performance of the Super-helices algorithms are in the core of the Maya Plug In stemming from the technology transfer framed by the ANR collaborative project. The optimized setting of full hair via friendly user interfaces allows significant time saving for hair stylization (hours vs days) and a rendering time improvement using « Mental Ray » newly developed shaders (around 100 sec/frame for 600 hair guides with 30 extrapolated secondary hairs).

Compatible with most common films productions pipelines, the Maya Plug In, connected to Mental Ray or not, represents a very innovative and cost effective solution highly promising, as confirmed by international and national studios’ interest."