Digital-Tutors - Professional Series: Texturing Military Vehicles in MARI

Digital-Tutors - Professional Series: Texturing Military Vehicles in MARI (with project files)
1h 19m | Video: VP6 (.flv) 1280x720 | Audio: MP3 44.1KHz mono | 1.68GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Level: Advanced

In this course we will talk about important concepts and workflow ideas to keep in mind as you create vehicle textures in MARI.


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Welcome to the Professional Series for Texturing Military Vehicles in MARI, an advanced learning guide for skilled artists brought to you by Digital-Tutors, the world’s largest online CG training library. This course was designed to help develop your MARI workflows, and give you some concepts to keep in mind as you go through the process of painting texture maps for your military vehicles. The objectives for this fast-paced course include looking at several different workflows and techniques for texturing a military transport. These concepts include using a layer-based approach to add flexibility to your textures and using snapshots to create variation. We won't be going step by step through an entire project, but rather talk in broad terms about some of the best ways to work and options you have for dealing with issues that may come up. Before we start, I recommend you have experience using MARI as we cover a lot of information in a shorter span of time. If you’re an artist new to MARI, I recommend you check out Establishing a Solid Foundation in MARI first. From there you can look at the intermediate step-by-step project based courses that will take you through the entire process.

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FXPHD: MAR101- Introduction to Mari (IncludedFiles Exercise)

FXPHD: MAR101- Introduction to Mari (IncludedFiles Exercise)
English | h264, yuv420p, 1152x720, 15.00 fps(r) | aac, 44100 Hz, mono | 2.38 GB
Genre: Video Training

Our first ever course in Mari is designed to get everybody up to speed with this new and excitingly powerful 3D painting package from The Foundry. Mari is a great leap forward in professional texture painting by being both users friendly and capable of dealing with a staggering large amount of resolution. Professor Gareth Jensen been working with Mari for the past few years as it was developed at Weta Digital and has continued to use it at Double Negative where he currently works. fxphd members will have access to Mari on Linux via the fxphd VPN. ensen comes from a background of physical film effects including make-up/prosthetics and painting ranging from props through to miniatures. Mari allows him to take a similar approach to texturing a digital asset by automatically seaming multi-patch UV's giving a much more complete hands-on feel, similar to that of painting a physical model.
In this course we will be covering the basics to get you up and running, including a breakdown of the tools and palettes that you will find yourself most often using. We will be covering such great tools as paint through, heal/tow and the remarkable warping tools. We will going through the concept of Mari's shaders and channels system as well as its comprehensive masking options.
Over the course of the term we will be taking an asset from start to finish. f you work like Jensen you probably like using all the tools at your disposal so we will also show how Mari works easily with other packages. I will be going over basic process of working in conjunction with Nuke and also the wonderfully simple to use camera projection set up for all your Photoshop projections.
In Jensen's 10 years of experience within the film industry, he has had the opportunity to work for both physical effects as well as digital and even began his career as a creature actor for Lord of the Rings. Having previously studied make-up and prosthetics for film in New Zealand his role in the industry further progressed with the renowned Weta Workshop where he was involved in major productions such as King Kong, 30 Days of Night, District 9, Prince Caspian and more recently Avatar. Developing his skills amongst some of the best artists in the industry, Jensen has also trained as a creature and props painter and it was during the production of Avatar that he made the decision to expand his role into the digital world. Switching over to Weta Digital as a texture and look dev artist on Avatar, Jensen has been able to work with Mari during its development and has now used it for over 2 years and is continuing to use it within Double Negatives production pipeline. His background in physical effects has left him with a strong base understanding of how to paint realistic textures and being able to use Mari as his digital medium has made this transition a lot smoother.



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Digital Tutors - Establishing a Solid Foundation in MARI

Digital Tutors - Establishing a Solid Foundation in MARI
English | VP6F 782x646 | MP3 96 kbps | 1.21 GB
 
Genre: eLearning

In this collection of lessons we will learn the basics of working in MARI, a powerful texture painting application.
Creating textures for our models can sometimes be difficult, but it is often so important for bringing those models to life within our projects. Born out of necessity within the film industry, MARI is a terrific solution for painting textures and will allow us to work with large objects with multiple texture maps seamlessly.

In this series of lessons we will take you through the many facets of MARI so you start creating textures for your own models right away. We will begin by talking about how to work with MARI projects. We will get accustomed to the MARI interface and let you know how you can customize it to fit your own needs. From there, we will talk about vital topics like working with the paint buffer and how MARI works with multiple uv patches.

We will explore the tools you can use to paint on your models, including customizing brushes and tool properties. We will cover the topic of projection painting and look at some of the projection settings that will allow you to get better results. We will also look at cloning and painting through existing photographic images to help you create great texture maps. We will use photographic images to paint through, adding realistic detail to the model very quickly.

We will explore channels and shaders, and working with multiple objects, using filters to modify textures, and a lot more. In the end, you will be able start using MARI to paint great textures for your own models. If you are just starting out and maybe you're fairly new to 3D. You can also go through The Beginner Guide to MARI, which will give you a quick overview of the functionality of MARI and some of the things to expect when using it. 

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Digital Tutors - Creature Texturing in MARI

Digital Tutors - Creature Texturing in MARI
English | VP6F 782x646 | MP3 96 kbps | 1.50 GB
 
Genre: eLearning

Creating highly detailed textures for our characters can often be a difficult task. MARI gives us a lot of flexibility in creating those textures and allows us to break down our models into a large number of high resolution textures that we can paint on simultaneously.

In this series of lessons we will go through the process of using MARI to create textures for high resolution creatures. We will begin by setting up our MARI project, with our geometry and texture channels, and setting up the workspace.

From there, we will block in a color base on the pieces of our model. We will look at the different effects we can get when using different brushes. We will use photographic images to paint through, adding realistic detail to the model very quickly. We will also look at several ways that we can use masking to aid in texturing, including edge masking and using existing channels as masks.

Finally, we will look at how to adjust entire channels or selected uv patches based on a number of different filters. In the end, you will not only have textured a complete project, but you will have the tools you need to create high resolution textures on your own models. If you are just starting out and are completely new to MARI, please check out the Beginner Guide to MARI as well as the Introduction to MARI to get a good grip on all of the functionality available in this powerful application.

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Digital Tutors - Texture Projection Techniques in Mari

Digital Tutors - Texture Projection Techniques in Mari
English | VP6F 782x646 | MP3 96 kbps | 598 MB
Genre: eLearning
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.

This course will begin by discussing the basic workflow of projecting texture detail onto your geometry within MARI as well as important features and settings that you will want to be aware of at an early stage of your texturing process.

From there, we will move into important topics such as mirroring painted details from one side of your geometry to the other, utilizing a multi-layered approach when creating our textures in MARI, looking at methods for seamlessly blending our textures together, as well as many additional tips, tricks, and techniques that you will be able to use within your own MARI projects.


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Digital.Tutors.Texture.Projection.Techniques.in.Mari.part1.rar

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Digital Tutors - Beginners Guide to Mari

Digital Tutors - Beginner's Guide to Mari
English | VP6F 782x646 | MP3 96 kbps | 652 MB
Genre: eLearning

In this course we will be teaching you the essential workflows, terms and techniques to help you get started with Mari.

In this course we will be giving you an introductory look into Mari so you can learn essential terms and definitions and start to build a solid foundation in this powerful texturing application. We will start off by covering the basics of Mari- working with projects and looking at the interface. We will then take a look at some key concepts in Mari, like projection painting and the paint buffer.

After that, you will learn about channels and shaders and how to use masking to get the best texturing results. And to wrap up, we will look at how you can export your finished texture maps. This series of step-by-step videos was developed with artists new to Mari in mind so we will be moving at a steady, easy-to-follow pace making sure you understand terms and basic techniques. To view more Beginner Guide courses; visit our library where you will find the largest collection of free, high-quality CG training videos.

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