Mari Courses and Certifications

Your First Day in MARI

To get started, we'll first learn how to create a MARI project to work in and how to equip it with things we'll need like channels and shaders. Software required: MARI 2.5v2.

• Pluralsight
• 3 hours 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

'Daydreamer' Production Pipeline Volume 4: Surfacing

In this MARI and RenderMan tutorial, we'll look at how the textures and materials were created for the Daydreamer short that appeared at SIGGRAPH. Software required: MARI 2.6v5, Maya 2016, RenderMan for Maya 20.0.

• Pluralsight
• 1 hour 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Taking Skin Textures from Good to Great in MARI

For a number of reasons, many artists struggle to paint realistic skin textures for their characters. Software required: MARI 2.6v2, Maya 2015.

• Pluralsight
• 1 hour 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Linear Workflow Strategies in MARI

With the emergence of physically accurate shaders and lighting in the film and game industries, linear workflow has emerged as sort of a buzz word in the community. Software required: MARI 2.6v2.

• Pluralsight
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Painting Metal Armor for Production in MARI

Throughout this MARI tutorial, we'll learn how to quickly get better results from our texturing tools. Software required: Maya 2015, Bonus Tools, MARI 2.6, Nodepack, Photoshop.

• Pluralsight
• 3 hours 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Texture Projection Techniques in MARI

Projecting photographs onto your models is a quick and easy way to add high levels of detail to your final textures. Software required: MARI 2.5v1.

• Pluralsight
• 1 hour 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Texturing a Robot with Ptex in MARI

We will really flex MARI's new layer system in this training, and utilize not only procedural layers and adjustment layers but also mask groups. Software required: MARI v2.0.

• Pluralsight
• 3 hours 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Implementing a Flow Map Fluid Pipeline Between MARI and UDK

In this series of tutorials, we will learn how to create and utilize flow maps to create a water shader in UDK. Software required: MARI v2.0v1, UDK July 2013.

• Pluralsight
• 2 hours 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Establishing a Texturing Pipeline Between MARI and ZBrush

ZBrush is a very popular high-resolution sculpting application. MARI is a very powerful texture painting application. Learn how to prepare your ZBrush assets and move them to MARI for painting. Software required: MARI 3.1v1, ZBrush 4R7.

• Pluralsight
• 2 hours 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Combining Painted and Image-based Textures in MARI

For many artists, the idea of painting with images is a rather strange one. Software required: MARI 2.5v2.

• Pluralsight
• 2 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Texturing Game Characters in MARI

When texturing game assets, often times there are several challenges to overcome and variables to consider. Software required: MARI 2.0v2.

• Pluralsight
• 3 hours 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Painting Realistic Skin in MARI: Hands

Hand painting realistic skin textures is a topic that many artists shy away from. Software required: MARI 2.0v1.

• Pluralsight
• 3 hours 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Painting Realistic Eyes in MARI

Whether you are watching a CG movie or playing a video game, when it comes to characters, one of the first things we notice is their eyes. Software required: MARI 2.0v2.

• Pluralsight
• 2 hours 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

10 Tips to Help Make You Successful in MARI

In this series of tutorials, we'll go over ten different tips to help you be successful with texturing in MARI.

• Pluralsight
• 1 hour 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Introduction to Ptex Texturing in MARI

We'll get started with this training by taking a few moments to understand what Ptex texture mapping is and why it may be important to our production pipelines. Software required: MARI 2.0v2.

• Pluralsight
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available