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Mari for Beginners - 06: Colour Space for Texturing

Tutorial / 18 January 2021

Urgh. Colour space in Mari for texturing. I'm only doing this because I have to and The Foundry haven't properly... Memes will make it okay, I promise. Thanks so much to my mate Andy, his much more insightful colour space and 3d explanations some of which can be found here: https://www.artstation.com/andreasmis... 

Squirtle Modelling and Texturing Tutorial Series

Tutorial / 29 October 2020

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Mari for Beginners - 05: Nodes and The Node Graph

Tutorial / 28 October 2020

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In this fifth part we go through Mari's Node Graph, a fundamental part of the software you need to know to be able to get texturing!

Mari for Beginners - Part 4: Painting and Projecting Images

Tutorial / 27 October 2020


In this fourth part we go through two of the most important Mari tools and their settings, the paint brush and the paint through image projection tool.

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In this video tutorial series I am going to teach anyone with no experience how to use the industry standard texturing software: Mari. 

Mari for Beginners - Part 3: Tools and the Palettes

Tutorial / 27 October 2020

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In this third part we go through from start to finish, all the Tools and Palettes inside of Mari that you will need to learn for texturing in the software.

Mari for Beginners - 02: The Painter Buffer

Tutorial / 02 September 2020

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In this second part we address one of the strangest concepts inside of Mari that you need to understand to get up and running with the software, the Paint Buffer. You will learn what it is, how it works and how to change its settings. 

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Mari for Beginners - 01: Projects and UI

Tutorial / 02 September 2020

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In this video tutorial series I am going to teach anyone with no experience how to use the industry standard texturing software: Mari. In this first part we will learn the project system and UI of Mari, how to get around in the 3d Viewport and more!  Join me in Part 2 (coming in the next couple of days) to learn how to use the Paint Buffer - Subscribe to hear when it's released. 

Meet Mat 2 Texturing Tutorial - Pt. 1 - Substance Painter

Tutorial / 29 February 2020

Oh boy, it's a long one! Recently Allegorithmic held a texturing contest called Meet Mat 2 and I thought that was a great opportunity to jump back into Substance Painter 2019 and Substance Designer. In this video we recreate my original textures, which took 2 days, from scratch in a much shorter time. Along the way we will cover new Substance Painter 2019 features like proper displacement and realtime Subsurface Scattering in the shaders. In this first part of two we create the base ceramic material and the gold. 

Substance Painter Topics covered include:

-Disp & SSS in shaders 

-Instancing Materials 

-Working with UDIMs in Substance 

-Blend Modes 

-Making Materials 

-Importing Resources 

-Using Filters 

-Texture Projection Modes 

This tutorial is great beginners new to substance or people just starting out that want to see how assets are textured. The second part will be uploaded in a few days and includes other topics like smart mask construction. 

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ZBrush 2020 for Beginners - Navigating the UI & Getting Started

Tutorial / 24 January 2020


I always hear about how hard ZBrush is to learn - so lets fix that! In this video I go over everything you need to know to get a model in ZBrush, including the little quirks that trip new users up. From there I explain all the basic buttons and menus that you need to navigate working with ZBrush, how to import and export models and more! After this you should be ready to sculpt, which I will cover properly in another video :)

If you have any questions feel free to leave them in the YouTube comments and I will help if I can!

Cheers,
Michael

Mari 4.6 - New Features in Action

Tutorial / 24 January 2020


In this video I run through the new features of the Mari 4.6 update and how I used them to texture some robot variations I created for The Foundry to celebrate the launch.

 If you have any questions please feel free to leave them in the YouTube comments and I will help as much as I can!

Cheers,

Michael