Pixar's Brave: Creating Merida's Hair

"For Brave, the team at Pixar had to deal with a hero or rather heroine, who is on screen for almost every shot, but who needed wild, yet beautiful hair. The simulation department needed to develop a technique and approach not only viable on a hand crafted trailer shot, but something that could be used almost ‘out of box’ on most shots, or the film was simply never going to make its deadline..."

Something for the tech-heads - an insight into the technical challenge of Merida's wild, unruly hair - courtesy of fxguide.com