"Every Hair Deliberate: A Photoreal Cat in Hair Curves" by Steve Chow, Alex Parker at Blender Conference 2026

British Shorthair fur is short, dense and plush, which sounds simple and turns out to be one of the harder coats to get right. In this talk Steve Chow shares what VFX Grace learned grooming one with Hair Curves: why the whole cat ended up split into just two regions, how a hand-painted texture opens the splits a thick coat develops where the skin stretches, and the shading trick that stops dense fur reading as solid black inside.

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