How a MARI master textures a character -- with Sam Alicea

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Ben and Sam's full interview: • Designing, Sculpting a...
Ben Erdt is a senior character artist at Blizzard Entertainment and Samuel Alicea is a senior texture artist at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). Ben and Sam joined the Outgang crew for a full breakdown of their latest collaboration, named Flathead vs Deadeye. This video is a full breakdown of their pipeline, from designing the creatures, to sculpting them using Zbrush, unwrapping them using multiple UDIMs, texturing them using Mari and finally, rendering them using Redshift.
Outgang is founded on the belief that education should be affordable, high-quality and given by industry professionals. Laura Gallagher has been teaching character art since 2012 at various venues and has launched Outgang in 2020 with the goal of helping out as many artists as possible aspire to a better life for themselves.
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[@tomoyaogawa4485]

Sam is not only an awesome texturing artist but also good human being. I really love his open mindedness and work ethics. He is kind of artist I want to aim to be in the future for sure.

[@praneshsingh5128]

Absolutely love you and your content. So professional through the entire interview. Been recommending this channel to all my friends in my art circle

[@Outgang]

Thank you so much Pranesh!

[@pixbstudios]

His workflow is really good. I liked the idea of gathering images from real life and projecting it on the mesh. The skin and details look so good.

[@3crazyclowns]

How could anyone give a dislike to this video? Here we find content of good quality, informative and easy to understand. Love your channel, Thank you so much

[@ZephrusPrime]

I have been really intrigued with texturing with Mari. Seems that many pieces that blow me away have a Mari workflow.

[@ChristopherWatsonViolin]

Great video. You were very professional. 💪I just love it when people share tips and methods respectfully and with straight forward diction.

[@DarkLinkArt]

keep it up with the awesome videos!! much love!

[@metube2907]

Great content as always, seeing interviews with the best artists, going into such detail is rare. Demystifying the dark arts! Thanks

[@Outgang]

It's a pleasure Me Tube! I love to craft content like this when I know people like you appreciate it.

[@Gatz3D]

Multiple SSS maps kinda blew my mind. Thank you for this video! Super informative!

[@dantertart5118]

Great video as always

[@phalhappy8612]

Hi, this is such a great great content about Mari, I appreciate all your sharing. I wish you can do this sort of interview about skinning shoulder, skinning animated clothes, and character rotomation. These contents are rare and never been interviewed and in depth sharing yet.

[@lukastemberger]

Wow, that's gorgeous :P Can I ask how long the process takes? I'm a beginner in 3D design and I'm curious what kind of timeframe I should aim for in the process. Right now it seems like it would take an eternity getting there.

[@ShelleyDavids]

Thank you for the video! interesting to watch.

[@mordecai1484]

How do you create shader for different layers of SSS in arnold .Does anyone know what node to use for that? There is that sss layers node documentation on maya website but I guess it doesn't exist in newer versions of maya because I can't find it.

[@Laerei]

Sam makes texturing with MARI look easy... Every time I try 3D modelling, texturing is the part where I mostly bounce off, mostly because I have little idea how to do it. Maybe I should give MARI a try next time.

[@biano3d]

awesome stuff, congrats 🤘

[@TheEldanu79]

Hi, Great Channel. Sam says paint one half and then flip it over. What is the difference with painting with symmetry activated if the character is in t-pose or in a symmetrical pose? Thanks!

[@Outgang]

That's a great question. We'd have to have a Mari expert answer that one.

[@suryqata]

I see that there was a lot of inspiration from the movie Lilo and Stitch for the creature, they both look very similar.

[@Shoobs3D]

Really good insight. Master Tutorials playlist: 2 down, 40 to go!

[@TheAsharalam]

@Outgang can you make video of lookdave . how to use maps

[@blacklight4720]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

[@KarelChytilArt]

Perfect. Thanks

[@vazelevz]

Very interesting session

[@brunomino2289]

This is dope!!!

[@mechaboy95]

does anyone know how to paint with projected image like that in blender? just curious

[@gonzo1400]

Very interesting video, I have no idea about doing any of this but I enjoy watching it 👌

[@Outgang]

That's awesome haha!

[@lukastemberger]

This is how you'll learn! One morning you'll wake up and be a pro :)

[@user-nw7zd3kd8m]

太棒了 Laura是全身心的投入到教育了

[@Outgang]

谢谢 :)

[@TheSatzy6699]

Excellent content

[@DannyBlicher]

22:40 How to combine the maps into rgb channels?

[@TheDrodder]

Absolutely awesome vid. Going to try applying these ideas to 3D coat cause I'm poor lol

[@shanjeevan142]

Thank you

[@etdle7]

This is a AAA content, truly I believe that Outgang it's making purely high quality content, thanks so mucho Laura

[@Outgang]

Much love, thank you for your comment!

[@FullCourtFx]

The texture @ 12:47 is perfect for a project im doing, any idea where it is available at? But also, create content as always!

[@Outgang]

Your supermarket may sell baloney. Bring a good camera! ;)

[@Jason_Silent]

Maybe I didn't notice that, but can Mari project and warp patch multiple images on each separate layer? That's the key for me to purchase this course

[@Outgang]

Oh there's no course to sell here. We don't have mari content on the website, not right now at least.

[@Jason_Silent]

@@Outgang that's sad

[@Outgang]

@@Jason_Silent It's something I'm looking to address :)

[@TechScoped]

we are really living in the cyber punk future i cant even start to describe it

[@IGarrettI]

what's a good place one can get textures for projecting?

[@Outgang]

texturingXYZ comes to mind, plenty of other websites offer cheap high-res textures too.

[@IGarrettI]

@@Outgang im asking because he used a regular image to project an albedo, which is pretty oldschool! I also wonder, by projecting the height and colour, they won't match, wouldn't that be an issue ?

[@Outgang]

@@IGarrettI That's something I should've asked him during the interview. In my experience not every variation you'd want in skin tones are things you'd want to see reflected in the displacement and vice versa and there's a few techniques that can be used as well to go from one to the other. A curvature pass can be extracted from the displacement to influence/color the albedo in different ways, and an albedo can be converted to displacement using it's luminance.

[@IGarrettI]

@@Outgang NGL I was waiting for you to ask it 😄 not sure how Mari works, but you're right, using utility maps to paint on top would be a good move

[@Outgang]

@@IGarrettI I guess I'll have to invite him again.

[@ifvictorthen10]

Is the wonam video or her voice computer generated? Why isn't it in sync?

[@Outgang]

I'm transgender and this is my normal voice.

[@Mikefiser]

@@Outgang This is not about that, the vo is a couple of frames out of sync, right?

[@Outgang]

@@Mikefiser Yeah it's not you. I had to splice together a few different camera captures with audio of different sources. I did my best but there's places where it's slightly off.

[@wonderboy75]

When he is talking about using 128 GB memory, does he mean regular RAM or VRAM? 128 GB ram is quite achievable and affordable, but I don't know if videocards has that much VRAM? Maybe some high end Quadros do?

[@Outgang]

Definitely the RAM.

[@wonderboy75]

@@Outgang thank you! ❤️ I got confused. I don't know Mari that we'll, but for Substance Painter you depend on your VRAM to paint and export.

[@chadyonfire7878]

nice content

[@kandangas_sv]

I'm confused!

[@VideoStefan17]

the audio is unsync during the intro. audio is 1 or 2 frames before the video.

[@Outgang]

I'll try and fix that going forward, thanks.

[@benimo6]

I suppose if this was a game creature you'd use way less UDIMs for the texture and UVs. Anyways, nice video.

[@Outgang]

Thanks for the compliment! Yeah you'd have like, 1 to 3 UDIMs for a game version of the creature.

[@benimo6]

@@Outgang No worries, and thanks for letting me know. I'm subscribed and looking forward to your future vids :)

[@overdev1993]

holy 1200 textures? no wonder the performance is so bad 😅 how would you handle 20 of these in a 3d software?

[@JettzCG]

MipMapping or mountains of available RAM at render time It's not a realtime asset

[@nicolascolaleo5094]

im confused

[@OnigoroshiZero]

If only I had 1/100 of this guy's skill... But being a solo game dev that has to work on game design/developing, 3d modeling, level design, sound design, story, and a bunch of other stuff, is impossible for me to spend nearly enough time in order to learn anything even remotely close to this level.

[@DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii]

Laura?

[@raivux578]

im sorry but youre so pretty T.T

[@murdocklesban6836]

copy paste?

[@mateoalcatraz2403]

por que tienes voz de hombre xd ?

[@wackerstube6020]

What are you? Girl ? Or boy?

[@i_am_a_real_cat1443]

what gender are you?

[@Outgang]

Depends on the day.

[@colourlabs]

@@Outgang

[@GartiOG]

no offense but i get confused my ears listens something else my eyes recognize as something else and by brain denies it all.

[@Spreadingwingsmine]

Lmao; search go to horny jail meme; that’s you right now

[@mmoarchives2542]

oh god, a trans

[@NelvinReyes]

Weird note: that young (NOT JUDGING GENDER IDENTITY) woman makes the most awkward intro... what where those pauses for? what about the fixed dead eyed staring at, I guess, the camera? isnt her neck sored from the weird pose and angle? Please for your sake and health, act more loose and naturally.

[@Outgang]

I appreciate your concerns about my health but I assure you I'm able to take care of myself.

[@RAHUL___SAINI]

You are beautiful