Can a pony tail be done

[Fux0r]

i wanted to work on a character with a pony tail. but making a braided looking pony tail is quite difficult i have found. do any of you have suggestions or tutorial???

[PusGhetty]

Just an idea, Assuming you don't want to export the model. You could model a ponytale shape out of some Zspheres and apply a Unified skin with a low value in the Sphere Density slider(located in the Tool pallette/Inventory subpallette).
Or you could model a low poly adaptive skin out of Zspheres to get the basic shape and then use texture maps and alphas to give the shape and form to the strands.
Hope that helps some,
Take care,
Michael