Up and Running with MARI Non-commercial
by Eddie Russell
MARI is a high-end texture-painting tool used in visual effects studios and film production, and now you can use it for free! You'll dive in with MARI Non-commercial, the free personal-use version of MARI. Software required: MARI Non-commercial.
What you'll learn
MARI is an industry standard when it comes to creating production-quality textures for 3D assets. This course, Up and Running with MARI Non-commercial, has been specifically designed to quickly get you up to speed on this software. First, you'll get to see the preparation of an asset as well as, how to get it into MARI and ready for texturing. Next, you get to create texture for your projects using painted textures and procedural textures inside of MARI. Finally, you'll learn how to render your textures out using the MODO renderer inside of MARI and export textures out of MARI for use in other applications. By the end of this course, you'll be able to use MARI Non-commercial to create professional-grade textures and visual effects. Software required: Mari Non-commercial.
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... moreials as well as lighting. Eddie takes pride in helping creative professionals overcome the barriers of technology and software so that they can effortlessly harness their creativity in their own projects.
While teaching with Pluralsight, Eddie has had the opportunity to contribute to many exciting projects. He's also contributed creative training articles to both Photoshop Creative and ImagineFX. Eddie's favorite project as a tutor has been taking part in the Transforming Robot Production Pipeline series. So if you're ready to learn environment art, texturing, or rendering from the ground up, or your graphic designs lack that special "it" factor, let Eddie unlock your potential as an artist.