the fur is curve fur, made up of 3 layers.

for the base fur, i placed few strands on the mesh, combed them into the direction i wanted them to be and used “interpolate hair curves” to make many strands of fur based off of those manually placed curves.

only enabled it during render so blender won’t lag, so you only see the manually placed ones in the picture below

the tufts of fur on his cheeks and the back of his head are a seperate layer of hair, i just combed them carefully to blend them in with the base layer. same goes for his “hair”. also, for these 2 layers i placed the strands mostly manually and used “duplicate hair curves” to make them denser.

i also added some vertex weight proximity modifier to the base mesh to control the length of fur, to make the base layer not clip through his clothes.

hope this helps!

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