The Foundry for Painting and Texturing
Empowering creative artists
3D painting and texturing is becoming increasingly complex. As the industry evolves, artists require software solutions that can deliver higher resolutions, deeper bit depths and more channels.
Our 3D paint software, MARI, is designed to sideline the technical barriers that hold users back. By seamlessly melding cutting edge GPU rendering, data processing engines and state of the art image editing tools, MARI puts the power to create firmly into the hand of artists.
Our intuitive painting package offers a true artistic toolkit, specifically designed to be flexible and facilitate creativity.
Which The Foundry products can help with 3D Painting and Texturing?
MARI is a 3D digital paint package designed from the ground up to meet the requirements of the most demanding film productions. Originally created to handle the exceedingly ambitious look development and texture requirements on Avatar, MARI will revolutionise your workflow and free up your artists.
"MARI is very user friendly, allowing artists to spend more time painting and less time grappling with technical issues.”
MODO by Luxology is a cutting-edge and artist friendly 3D software package that combines modeling, painting, animation and rendering in a single integrated powerful package. The new generation in 3D software, MODO is a true end-to-end solution that offers a fresh, flexible and modular approach.
MODO is both easy to learn and intuitive to use, and lets artists concentrate on the creative process and get high quality results fast.
How are Paint and Texture artists using The Foundry software?
Paint and Texture artists are challenging the realms of possibility with increasingly complex projects.
Examples of our software being put to excellent use include:
- HUGO – Read how Pixomondo used NUKE, MARI and OCULA to realize Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award winning epic 3D adventure.
- AVATAR – The original MARI project, read how Weta Digital developed a software to deliver the jungles of Pandora and the Na’vi themselves.
- THOR - Digital Domain turn to MARI when creating the visual effects for this incredible blockbuster.
- PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS! - The Foundry's software takes to the high seas to help Aardman deliver stunning VFX work on this film.
Check out our Paint and Texture Customer Demos
- SNICKERS 'FOCUS GROUP' COMMERCIALS – See how Framestore used MARI to deliver boardroom Sharks.
- GAME OF THRONES – Blue Bolt Ltd used MARI and NUKE to create Emmy award-winning Television fantasy adventure.