Mari For Mac

Mari is a very powerful digital texture painting tool that makes it as simple as possible for you as an artist to paint directly onto a model’s surface as well as to create immense texture maps up to 32.000 pixels square, as long as your Mac has what it takes in terms of out-right performance.

Speaking of which, we must point out straight off the bat that if you don’t have the minimum required 4 GB RAM and 1 GB graphics card, do yourself a favor and stay calm, as you will experience some major waiting times before your Mac will manage to render and confirm even the most basic commands.

Like most other applications of this kind, Mari comes with a dark-grey math themed interface with its most important tools on the left side, a main editing panel in the middle and a well-organized panel with brushes, painting elements, layer control features, brush editors, channel manager, and other.

There’s no doubt that brushes are at the heart of any 2D or 3D painting tool, but Mari’s approach is a little bit different as it aims to provide a balance between working with brushes and working with layers.

With the help of Mari and with the right amount of knowledge and patience, you can create layers that can be manipulated in a wide assortment of ways, you can add masks that can be blended, adjusted and grouped to produced powerful and natural-looking effects.

Being used for movie and TV series such as Avatar and Game of Thrones, there is absolutely no doubt that Mari is a serious piece of software with enormous potential for 3D texturing thanks to its state of the art layering system, comprehensive brushes, support for high resolution textures and its integration with other powerful apps like Photoshop and NUKE.