When Tony was learning to sketch storyboards, he had a particular drawing style for Tigras’s hair that we fondly referred to as the “Helmet.”

So when Wally began creating the 3D puppet model for Tigras last week and asked, “How do I create his hair?” The answer seemed obvious. Make a helmet!

In the spirit of Tony’s stylized character portrayal, Wally modeled blond helmet hair, using a helmet shaped mesh with an image texture of blond hair strands.

As a comparison, here is sample of what we have done when we wanted to get a little more serious about hair.

These are just for fun of course. Since we plan on shooting live action and are only modeling basic characters as place holders, it doesn’t really matter whether we use Helmet Hair or more complex partical system hair strands, for the purposes of our 3D previs animatic.