Building a bridge between NUKE and MARI

MARI delivers a focused workflow to provide NUKE artists with MARI’s dedicated 3D paint tools, making digital environment and projection work more efficient and final composited scenes more believable.

Brandon Fayette, Bad Robot, says “A NUKE and MARI combination workflow is saving me 20% to 30% of my time creating clean plates. I’ve already completed 14 shots this way and am really happy with the results. Combining compositing, 3D modelling and texture painting in the same workflow is just amazing”.


WHAT IS IT?

A new NUKE <> MARI bridge allows compositing artists to directly address common and time-consuming challenges faced when using 3D projection techniques to build digital environments:

  • Manage reference photography and paint seamless 3D projections.
  • Easily fix warping and stretching artifacts.
  • In-paint holes and occluded areas, often exposed from adjusted camera views.
  • Remove unwanted markers and scene objects.
  • Build invisible set-extensions.

Simple to setup, quick and easy to use – models, projections and images are sent from NUKE to MARI and back in a single step, or over a network when artists need to collaborate, share skills or save time. Seamless results, intuitive painting.


I WANT TO TRY IT!

Why not have a go? Download a FREE 15 day demo licence today. There is also a video by Nukepedia's Frank Reuter below.

NB: The bridge is available for MARI 1.3v2 and above and NUKE 6.2v4 and above. Additional information on graphics card requirements can be found here.


ALREADY CONVINCED?

Nodelocked licenses of MARI can either be purchased online, via our Sales team at sales@thefoundry.co.uk or through our extensive global partner network. You can find your local partner here.

Floating licenses of MARI are also available via sales@thefoundry.co.uk or your local partner.


I ALREADY HAVE MARI. HOW DO I GET THE LATEST VERSION?

If you already own MARI you can download the latest version of MARI here.


“MARI is a fantastic program; there really is no need for PhotoShop anymore when you have MARI and NUKE. MARI's 3D paint capabilities and the unity between 3D and 2D that comes with NUKE it is just an awesome combination”. Scott Metzger, Method Studios.

Watch Frank Reuter use the NUKE<>MARI Bridge below.