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In this term Gareth will be going into the application of Mari on a high resolution creature for film. He will be covering using Mari in conjunction with other packages and show how you can fit it into your work flow with relative ease. Gareth will be using Mari with Mudbox, Nuke and also show how you can easily use Mari textures in your MentalRay or Renderman set up at home. He will also be covering how to prepare high resolution textures in Photoshop for use in Mari. This will be a project based term showing Gareths process from texturing through to rendering.

In this series of lessons, we will be exploring many of the tools and features of MARI that will allow you to texture your models faster and with more precision.

In this collection of MARI tutorials, we will be taking a detailed look at each of the shader modules available to us in MARI. Each tutorial in this course is a self-contained lesson centered on one of the shader modules available in MARI. This means that these lessons can be viewed in any order you wish, allowing pick and choose content that is relative to you. Over the course of these lessons, we'll discuss not only how each shader module works but also an example of how the module can be used to maximize your results.

Mari is a creative texture-painting tool that can handle extremely complex or texture heavy projects. It was developed at Weta Digital and has been used on films such as The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, District 9, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Lovely Bones, and Avatar. Designed from the ground up to meet the needs of the most demanding VFX texture and matte painting artists, MARI is a 3D digital paint tool that will revolutionise your workflow. Capable of handling vast numbers of pixels, MARI out performs all other paint tools in speed, flexibility and processing capabilities. MARI allows artists to concentrate on painting detailed, multi-layered textures directly onto 3D models in a fluid and natural way.

In this MARI tutorial, we will learn about a powerful feature known as projectors which allow us to move textures from MARI into other 2D image editing applications for editing. We’ll get started by learning what projectors are and why we might want to utilize them in our texturing process. Here we’ll learn about what kind of information is stored by a projector and what exactly is not.

MARI is the most fluid and natural way to paint in 3D. It makes life simple for artists by allowing them to paint directly onto 3D models with more time for painting and less time managing technical issues.

Whether you are a 2D or 3D artist, it’s a good possibility that the tablet is a critical piece of hardware in your day to day work. The goal of this course will be to help you maximize the features of your tablet in a way that is specific to texture painting in MARI. Whether it is your grip pen, express keys, touch strip or radial menu, each is a powerful feature that, when properly utilized, will extend the functionality of your Wacom product so that it is much more than a simple surface for drawing or painting.

In Justin's second texture DVD tutorial, he covers how to paint realistic female skin in the new Mari 2.0. Justin will explore various types of photographic reference as well as demonstrate relatively new techniques to painting pore displacement textures using scanned pore details. He will introduce you to Mari 2.0, the best way to transition from Mari 1.6 or 1.5 and explore the all new and exciting layer system within Mari 2.0 to ensure a 100% non-destructive workflow. To finish off the demos, Justin will show the easiest methods in which to paint convincing eyes that will breathe life and soul into your characters.