Thanks I've worked on the scruff for a bit and i think it looks nice, I fiddled with the hair aswell, but it turns out that maya hair doesn't "understand" HDRI and renders nice and black. Fur doesn't understand hdri either probably but that doesn't matter because that still looks good. For the hair i'll probably use rectangular planes with a number of subdivisions on them and make them NCloth objects so that it falls naturally. If anyone has a brighter idea let me know