Title: FXPHD – MAR201 – Intermediate MARI Techniques
In this intermediate MARI course, taught by Mikey Rogers, we explore the powerful features introduced in Mari 2.0. We want to emphasize that we are also opening up the course to Mac OS X users as Mari 2.5 now supports Mac OS X 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion) and above! We want to keep things simple but still build on each preceding lesson, so we are going to concentrate on just two hero assets with a few supporting assets. Our end result will be a fully painted human jet pilot placed in an environment to give her a sense of purpose and history.
We start things off by going over the basics of preparation and asset creation as well as explain the benefits of a tiled UV workflow. This will give us a chance to explore the model, think about the types of textures we need and talk about why finding valuable reference is an important part of the texture painting workflow.
The rest of the course will take us step by step on painting each part of the jet pilot from clothes to accessories to skin. Since we want to tell a story with our textures, we spend some time in the later classes painting up a destroyed jet wing as well as a simple floor and background to give the environment a mood and sense of completion.
