# Introduction to Mari

Level: Beginner  
7 hours 50 minutes  
Mari 7.0  
Released: 2024

## 7+ Hours of High-Quality Training

With over 7 hours of expert training, Introduction to Mari guides you through every aspect of Mari's powerful texturing capabilities. From the fundamentals of Mari to advanced techniques, you'll learn to texture anything you want!

## WHAT'S INCLUDED

## Learn a Professional Workflow

Learn a professional texturing workflow from the ground up. You’ll learn to navigate Mari’s essential tools, using its unique strengths while avoiding common production pitfalls. By the end of this course, you’ll know how to combine these tools into an industry ready face texture.

## Texture With the Power of Nodes

Learn to use Mari’s powerful node-based workflow to create industry-standard textures. By mastering nodes, you’ll move beyond basic painting and adopt a more efficient, professional approach used by top studios to handle complex assets with ease.

## Hero Character Texturing in Mari

Learn to texture a character from scratch by painting professional Base Color, Roughness, and SSS maps in Mari. You’ll then export your maps into Blender to create realistic skin shading using specular, sss, and displacements.

## The Definitive Guide to Mastering Mari

A comprehensive deep-dive from Mari fundamentals to advanced Hollywood workflows.

## DETAILS

### What You'll Learn

Learn Mari’s node-based workflow through 7 hours of professional training. You’ll go from UI basics to advanced techniques, including painting realistic skin, creating SSS and roughness maps, and bringing your maps into Blender for final shading and rendering.

### What You Get

- 39 Videos Available for Streaming  
- Source Files for Mari and Blender  
- 8 Pages Help PDF

### Requirements

No prior Mari experience is needed. You should have a basic grasp of 3D fundamentals and access to minimum Mari 7.0v1 and Blender 4 is required.

### Skill Level

Beginners to Mari and to texturing

## Your Instructor

Henning Sanden, Co-Founder of FlippedNormals, has been using Mari to texture characters and creatures on Hollywood movies like Pacific Rim 2, The Legend of Tarzan, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and more!

Introduction to Mari is highly practical, covering features based on his career texturing for movies.

## Course Contents

### Interface and Navigation  (3 videos · 41m)
1. Mari Vs Painter  13:04  
2. Archives and Projects  14:12  
3. UI and Navigation  14:43

### Mari Basics (6 videos · 1h 5m)
1. Selection and UDIMs  11:08  
2. Objects and Versions  5:12  
3. Lights  5:18  
4. Channels and Shaders  12:33  
5. Layers  15:16  
6. Paint Buffer  15:35

### Node Basics, the Node Graph and Essential Nodes (6 videos · 1h 10m)
1. Layers Vs Nodes  12:38  
2. Node Graph Workflow  27:49  
3. Procedurals  7:45  
4. Tiles and Triplanars  12:13  
5. Teleport Nodes  3:08  
6. Grading Nodes  6:45

### Using the Most Common Tools in Mari (5 videos · 41m)
1. Paint Tool  18:28  
2. Image Manager  2:29  
3. Paint Through Tool  7:16  
4. Various Tools  7:28  
5. Warp Tool and Distortion  6:00

### Pipeline, Exporting, Symmetry and more (8 videos · 1h 31m)
1. Baking Geo Channels  17:06  
2. Projectors  10:38  
3. Selection Groups  6:07  
4. Color Space  16:20  
5. Export Manager  11:31  
6. Symmetry  11:30  
7. Transfer Textures  6:39  
8. Troubleshooting Mari  11:39

### Project - Painting the textures (5 videos · 1h 20m)
1. Head Starting Point  8:48  
2. Color Base  27:34  
3. Lips  11:19  
4. More Painting  17:44  
5. Makeup  15:24

### Project - Procedurals, Masks and Roughness (3 videos · 43m)
1. Procedurals  9:33  
2. Metal Mask  16:31  
3. Specular Roughness  17:04

### Project - Lookdev in Blender (3 videos · 35m)
1. Lookdev  15:23  
2. Further Lookdev  11:49  
3. Gold Material  8:12

## Industry Experience You Can Trust

From blockbuster films to AAA games, our instructors have contributed to some of the industry’s most recognized projects.