Bullshit. Disney literally put a shit ton of research into Merida's hair. They've published research papers about it. There's not a straight hair to be seen in Moana. Encanto has every type of hair. In all those fucking new Spider-man movies in any scene with a green screen and Zendaya you aren't looking at her real hair; her hair is impossible to green screen so they have to supplement her real hair with digital hair so there isn't green artifacts around the edges. I could go on. I do realize these are all Disney examples but Disney owns everything.
Bullshit. Disney literally put a shit ton of research into Merida's hair. They've published research papers about it. There's not a straight hair to be seen in Moana. Encanto has every type of hair. In all those fucking new Spider-man movies in any scene with a green screen and Zendaya you aren't looking at her real hair; her hair is impossible to green screen so they have to supplement her real hair with digital hair so there isn't green artifacts around the edges. I could go on. I do realize these are all Disney examples but Disney owns everything.
The original Yale webpage is about both prerendered and real time simulation.
My bad. From what you've noted, it does seem like "real-time" simulation is kind of the final frontier in mastering digital hair.