Motion Media is offering a whopping 40% off all node-locked MARI purchases for one day only – August 2nd-3rd 9am to 9am. You don’t want to miss this sweet pre-Siggraph sale.
MARI 1.3v2 delivers a focused workflow to provide NUKE artists with MARI’s dedicated 3D paint tools, making digital environment and projection work more efficient and final composited scenes more believable. WHAT IS IT? A new NUKE <> MARI bridge allows compositing artists to directly address common and time-consuming challenges faced when using 3D projection techniques to build digital environments: [...]
MARI 1.3 is loaded with great new features to help keep your painting creative whilst helping with workflow and pipeline pain. WHAT’S NEW IN MARI 1.3? PTEX Ptex allows you to paint and render models without having to spend time creating complicated UV maps – hooray! It gives the artist complete freedom providing access to [...]
I came across the website of Tim Crowson, who created an interesting piece of Python code that takes a lot of the legwork out of importing MARI texture files into Softimage. You can find the full information on his website, as well as the downloadable script, but here’s an excerpt of what it does: What [...]