![]() ![]() We plan to do some testing of our own with the FirePro cards and see how they handle the job.Īll the normal texturing tools you’d expect from competing 3D texture painting applications exist in Mari a fully customizable brush engine, cloning and healing brushes, filters, blur and the ability to paint across multiple channels and textures. ![]() ![]() However, with the lack of FirePro cards being used in high-end VFX production facilities, The Foundry hasn’t done thorough testing with them yet. One thing to note is that AMD’s workstation line of cards with similar specs should work with Mari. For those who can afford that kind of system, however, the freedom is stunning. Be prepared to hand as much as 250GB of hard drive space to Mari for caching and temporary files too. This kind of resolution does have its cost-system requirements demand fairly cutting edge systems with high-end NVIDIA Quadro workstation cards with at least 1GB of memory onboard. This rather obscene amount of resolution lets artists get as detailed as they want by loading detail in the textures dynamically as they work. Mari is able to handle 32K-resolution textures (over 1 million pixels) with multiple channels or thousands of smaller textures, in either full floating point, 16-bit or 8-bit color depth on models with over 20 million polygons. Another thing that sets Mari apart is the philosophy that textures should be painted in the context of the scenes and shots they will ultimately end up in, including the animation of the models a texture artist is working on. Given its history as a proprietary tool by Weta, Mari wasn’t designed in a theoretical vacuum the overall direction of Mari was tuned specifically to the needs of the production of Avatar and features were requested, prioritized and hammered on by artists in real production time. One of the goals for Mari was to develop an application that can create and load incredibly high resolution textures for detailed models and remain responsive regardless of the scalability. Mari began as a tool used by Weta Digital after completing King Kong and was used in award winning visual effects films like Avatar and District 9 before making its way over to The Foundry for commercial release. Earlier this year leading up to NAB, The Foundry announced their new texture painting application Mari. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |