Introduction to Mari

Introducing the most comprehensive tutorial ever created for learning Mari! With over 7 hours of expertly crafted training, “Introduction to Mari” guides you through every aspect of Mari’s powerful texturing capabilities. From the fundamentals of Mari to advanced techniques, you’ll learn to texture anything you want!

Taught by Mari Professional Henning Sanden, Co-Founder of FlippedNormals, who has been using Mari to texture characters and creatures in Hollywood movies like Pacific Rim 2, The Legend of Tarzan, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, and more! “Introduction to Mari” is highly practical, covering features based on his career texturing for movies. Benefit from professional workflows and tips picked up from years of real-world experience in the industry.

Learn to texture with nodes: “Introduction to Mari” uses the node system in Mari to teach you a powerful and simple approach to texturing. Nodes are a major advantage of Mari over other texturing software, and understanding how to use them makes you a much more effective texture artist. Learn an industry-standard way of texturing your models.

Practical Texturing: In Part 2, you’ll learn how to texture a character from scratch in Mari, creating the Base Color, Roughness, and Subsurface Amount map using simple and powerful techniques. You’ll also learn how to bring your textures into Blender for shading to create realistic skin using SSS, specular, coat, and displacements.