The Mari Channel

Gatling Finale

Here is the last session with the gatling gun asset. I will continue on other assets and workflow videos so stay tuned but first, take a look at the final chapter and some results
Bullets included Pixar

Bullets included is now up over at Pixar Renderman university as a behind the scenes / Tutorial on GP shading the gatling droid featured here at the Mari channel. As promised bullets are included. Go and…
The Dirtcolor and dirtmask session

This time we take a look at the dirt-color and the dirt-mask. It’s mostly procedural layers and some painting
The metal mask session

In this session we take a look on some of the techniques i used for the metal mask .
Bullets included

A teaser where the project is heading. We filmed it over at Fido. Tomas Näslund is the voice behind the camera. Tracking was made using pfmatchit. Mari for texture , and Renderman for render and shading….
Gatling color and decals

In this session we take a look at basic color and decals on the gatling Gun.
Gatling Gun session 2

The second session of the gatling gun, here we take a look at scene Setup and initial Displacement painting using mari
Gatling Gun

The Gatling Gun, Project startup of the Meshmen Gatling Gun 2000 that later on going to be seen in a short i’m working on.

site updates

I’m starting to collect the videos created in sections so when I produce other tutorials people can get back to old projects. Be sure to check the drop down menus under each section

new tutorials

Im doing a series of smaller workflow based tutorials focusing on different parts of mari while working on a new project based tutorial, the next short form tutorial will be specular roughness

Cinesite job

I’ll be joining Cinesite to do some serious texturing in Mari. My plan to start a new project will be on hold for a few months, as I can’t bring my monster of a computer on…

Roughness in Mari 2.6

Posted by admin on April 28, 2014

Lets take a look on how I deal with roughness when starting a project.

Channel strategies

Posted by admin on April 27, 2014

Some of the techniques I use when starting a project and how I set up my channels. I like to have some of my more complex basic channel comps in working channels instead of having them…

Basic shader setup inside of Renderman studio, using the GP surface shader. We also look at a workflow to organize the shader texture slots. I will go into more detail of the shader stuff later on when the maps is…