Alright, I'm sure this question gets asked a lot but the search function for the Gamedev forums wasn't very.. useful. Anyway, if anyone can give any pointers or link me to some great tutorials for making realistic 3D hair easy, that'd be awesome, thanks!

some use particle systems to do hair... but only in pre-rendered stuff. however you can be creative and use alpha textures to create hair (if you're already an artist i'm sure you can figureout the rest).