This 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.

Topics include:

• 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