yup, creating a more noticeable variety of alpha silhouette will definitely help to step away from that fur look. as for paint effect, i was actually talking about creating a library of PSD files with painted hair strands in a variety of directions. then you can use them in photoshop to create your custom alpha cards any…
I'm trying to take a cue from Swizzle and make a more documented thread here that will hopefully allow me to better explain what there is of my process, or actually think about it in the first place, and look at things with a more critical eye. If anybody else can find something useful here than that would be the best…