How to animate simple ponytails with physic ?

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Hello, I modeled a little girl with two ponytails (not sure it’s how we call it) in the hair.
I would like not to have to animate them manual also I though about using bones but I’m not sure how to do.
I read somewhere I have to use cloth with 2-3 vertices, hook them with the head and IK each vertex with a bone.
Is there a simpler solution ?

Thanks

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Jiggle Armature

There’s also Laplacian Deform modifier

or soft Body physics. …etcetera.

3

Finally cloth did the trick after following some cloth tutorials. Thanks

4

Are the ponytails made with particle hair strands? If so, using Hair Dynamics might be a good choice – Blender’s hair physics has been improved a lot in 2.76

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No, this is very simple ponytails, my character is in cartoon style. But thank you for the suggestion.

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For mesh hair, I have used the cloth sim with good results, in this case wildly loose & scraggly, but it can also be very controlled with different parameters.