- So there's a whole lot more we can do to our image…before we commit it to texture space.…Some of MARI's most powerful tools allow us to tweak…and fine tune the Paint and the Paint Buffer,…to assist in things like model or texture flow…to line things up just right.…To get an example of this,…let's go back to our Image Manager.…Let's take a look at our roof here,…and get in,…kind of frame it up.…Let's grab this image into our Paint Buffer…and use our Scale shortcut to bring that down,…and rotate this a bit.…
We'll go ahead and…just paint something down here real quick…using our Paint Through tool.…And if we go over here to the left,…we see this little hand and that's…the Transform Paint Buffer tool,…and what this allows us to do is…you see how our image alpha goes away?…Right now the paint is still live in the view port,…and in a previous movie,…we talked about how there's edges of the Paint Buffer…and we reset it to take up the entire view port.…
But as we're moving this around,…we can see those edges show up again.…
Author
Mikey Rogers
Released
11/19/2015This course will guide members through the ins and outs of this essential visual effects tool. Author Mikey Rogers, a CG artist who has worked on eye-catching spots for Nike, Google, and Sony, covers everything from initial model import and scene setup to channel and layer creation and export. He also touches on shader creation inside of MARI, which allows you to view your work in a physically accurate environment using HDR lights. The course closes with a series of projects that demonstrate real-world workflows for painting different wood and stone textures.
- Adjusting the cache and other MARI settings for best performance
- Working with adjustment and procedural layers
- Using and customizing the default MARI brushes
- Transforming and warping the paint buffer
- Using different projection modes
- Dynamic masking
- Making a tileable texture
- Repurposing diffuse maps
- Painting wood and stone
- Exporting channels
- Saving out and importing MARI archives
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome31s
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1. Initial Setup and Asset Review
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Reference overview4m 20s
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Tumbling around the viewport3m 50s
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2. Brushes, Colors, Image Manager, and Projecting
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3. The Paint Buffer and Projection Settings
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Dynamic masking9m 34s
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4. Techniques in Practice: Painting Wood Buckets
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Making a tileable texture6m 58s
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Quick copy and quick paste8m 15s
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5. Techniques in Practice: Painting Stones
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Fine-tuning the shader4m 47s
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6. Techniques in Practice: Painting a Wood Structure
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7. Techniques in Practice: Painting a Wood-Tiled Roof
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8. Finalizing and Delivering a MARI Project
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Using RGB mattes8m 53s
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Exporting channels10m 24s
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Saving out MARI archives4m 24s
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Conclusion
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Next steps33s
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