Does anyone know where I can get hair that resembles a Rabbi?
benniewoodell
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So I was hired to animate a couple of Jewish stories that a musician has retold by song and I can't find anything that would work for the Rabbi's hair. I have everything else, he looks great, but the musician says we have to have the Peyot for it to be authentic which I totally understand and agree with. I couldn't find any hairs offhand that resembled this and I tried the create strand based hair option but I couldn't get curls to work right, they wouldn't stay down and tightly curl up, they just, kind of, made one long curve around his head. It might very well be a user error as I've never tried using it before. I'll keep trying but I figured I'd post here and see if anyone has any ideas of a product I might have missed here in my search.
Thank you very much for any and all help.
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"Rabbi" is probably way too general. Its more common among male Hasidic/ultra-orthodox Jews. You could try a bunch of elongated springs, but being that you're going to be animating, if you can't find/modify any existing products that would make it work, you''ll have to commission someone to make it for you, which shouldn't be too hard compared to some of the other hair styles. If anything, they would just need to make the peyat without needing to make the hair for the entire head.
And yet also too specific, because it's not only rabbis who wear payot.
"...we have to have the Peyot for it to be authentic..." Well it won't be actually authentic without the shuckling or (shokeling) poses that go along with it. Let alone a tefillin. We have Christian prayer poses but minority religious poses are not available to date, unless you make them yourself. Daz products aren't exactly what one would call a "broadchurch"..More skimp-ware, warrior madens and not exactly for the religiously fixated among us. Good thing I say.
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You could try geometry editing Amarseda Hair's curls and scaling them down and parenting the curls under the hat.
Strandbased hair
or LAMH in a pinch
The OP mentioned that he has tried recreating it with SBH to no avail. I don't have the full LAMH plugin, so I've never tried creating hair with it, but I doubt he'd have any more success with that.
Yes, that too, but I was hoping this would have been obvious since not all Hasidic/ultra-orthodox Jews are Rabbis.
No offense meant at all, but I'm kind of worried that the musician in question seems to think that a 'rabbi' of whatever Jewish denomination would wear peyot, and in that very typically ultra-orthodox style, too. Sounds like an extremely clichéd way of thinking to me. Somewhat like depicting a gay person in drag to be 'typically gay', you know? There are many, many flavors of Jewish religion - and many of the members of these don't wear peyot at all, neither the rabbi nor any other person (nor a schtreimel either, if that's what the black hat is supposed to be). It makes me all cringy to think you're gonna depict 'a rabbi' by giving him peyot and a black hat. Neither of the rabbis I've known so far wore anything like that. For example, one is conservative and he wears just a kippa inside and a 'normal' hat (like a fedora) outside, basically to hide the kippa. The only Jews, rabbis or no, I've known to wear the peyot and the black hat were members of Chabad Lubavich which is ultra-orthodox. If that's the kind of religion he wants you to show, then the gear would be about correct. If not - well, it makes me feel deeply uncomfortable. Please don't go there.
If the music is about historical events and you're meant to show a rabbi in accordance to that, then you would need to research the time period and place beforehand.