Introduction to MARI 2.0
MARI has become the new standard in texture painting and a revolutionary addition to the production pipelines in many studios. Software required: MARI 2.0.
What you'll learn
With the release of MARI 2.0, the texture painting experience has not just improved but in fact, its been completely overhauled to incorporate some tools, techniques and workflows, you'll probably recognize. In this MARI training, we will walk through each and every basic feature of MARI, and work to get you up to speed and painting in no time. This tutorial will cover in detail MARI's projection based painting workflow and all of the tools and techniques that you'll need to be successful. Along the way, we'll be learning about many of the exciting new features inside of MARI 2.0 including a personal favorite: the inclusion of layers and a true layer based workflow. We'll learn about this and many other new features, including adjustment layers, procedural layers, and much much more. Whether you are a MARI veteran or a MARI newcomer, this tutorial has something for everyone. Strap in, warm up your painting, and get ready to learn. Software required: MARI 2.0.
Table of contents
- Working with Projects 11m
- Interface Overview 10m
- Customizing the MARI Interface 12m
- Navigating the MARI Canvas 8m
- Understanding History in MARI 7m
- Selecting and Hiding in MARI 12m
- Paint Buffer Basics 11m
- Painting and Erasing in MARI 11m
- Customizing Brushes in MARI 11m
- Importing Photoshop Brushes into MARI 5m
- Painting with Symmetry in MARI 8m
- Using the Paint Through Tool 9m
- Using Stencils in MARI 7m
- Transforming Paint in the Buffer 9m
- Using the Towbrush 11m
- Cloning Paint in MARI 8m
- Understanding Lighting in MARI 8m
- Working with Shaders in MARI 10m
- Working with Channels in MARI 10m
- Working with Layers in MARI 12m
- Masking Projections 10m
- Creating Layer Masks and Layer Mask Groups 9m
- Adjustment Layers and Adjustment Stacks 9m
- Procedural Layers 11m
- Sharing Layers in MARI 9m
- Working with Patches in MARI 12m
- Understanding MARI Filters 9m
- Importing and Exporting Texture Maps 9m
- Archiving MARI Projects 5m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more