Environment Prep for Production in MARI
In this MARI tutorial, you'll learn a relevant thought process that will cover a wide range of workflow techniques to help speed up the coverage process in MARI. Software required: Adobe Photoshop CS6 and MARI 2.5.
What you'll learn
In this MARI tutorial, you'll learn a relevant thought process that will cover a wide range of workflow techniques to help speed up the coverage process in MARI. We'll setup a non-destructive layering workflow to easily allow for any unexpected edits. We'll start at the beginning of the concept stage and use our gathered reference to build our library with useful applicable textures. We'll then carry this process through while creating brushes, setting up shortcuts, and creating shelves for our brush and reference storage. The tips, techniques, and workflows shared in this MARI training will help you become more comfortable with prepping your next big asset in a production pipeline. Software required: Adobe Photoshop CS6 and MARI 2.5.
Table of contents
- Gathering Reference to Build a Texture Library 10m
- Creating Tileable Textures 10m
- Creating Brushes 10m
- Importing Brushes and Creating Working Shelf 7m
- Setting up Pie Menu and Color Palette 9m
- Importing Textures into Image Manager 7m
- Adjusting Layout and Setting up Shortcuts 10m
- Checking UV's and Creating Selection Sets 10m
- Establishing a Painting Workflow 10m
- Setting up Triplanar Projections for Coverage 10m
- Using Camera Projections 10m
- Organizing Layer Techniques 10m
- Applying a Shot Cam Projection Illustration 10m
About the author
For the last nine years, Ronnie Cleland has been involved with creative departments that allowed him to contribute to almost all spectrums of CGI production. His education focus on Visual Communications, Media Arts, and Visual Effects helped to establish him as an artist at major film industry studios. Such studios include Sony Imageworks, Asylum, Gentle Giant, Look FX, Rhythm & Hues, and Dreamworks Animation. He has had the privilege to work on an array of titles that span from academy award wi... more