The Foundry and CGSociety start a competition where they looking for the world's best MARI artist. The Foundry has posted "Witch Doctor" by Jakob Kousholt. Your goal is texture the model and bring it to life.
You have to make detailed, realistic textures in a lookdev-ready setup (a minimum of colour, bump and spec maps for each shader). Details which make the textures more evocative will get bonus points too. Everyone will receive extra qudos for submitting animated textures, turntables, renderable scenes (Maya and 3ds Max etc.) and showcasing your work in progress on CGTalk.
The competition will be judged by Jack Greasley, MARI’s product manager, the multi-talented Scott Metzger, Image Engine’s Justin Holt and well known texture artist and CGTalk Chief moderator and host Leigh Van Der Byl.
If you don`t have MARI, The Foundry are offering a 60 day trial for the duration of the challenge.
Competition ends 20th of November.
Prizes and Sponsors
1st prize
- NVIDIA Quadro K5000
- MARI - Full Version Software
- CGWorkshops - Your choice of 1 CGWorkshop
- EXOTIQUE 7 Special Edition
- EXPOSÉ 10 Standard Edition
- CGSociety - 12 months CGS CONNECT membership
2nd prize
- MARI - Full Version Software
- CGWorkshops - Your choice of 1 CGWorkshop
- EXPOSÉ 10 Standard Edition
- CGSociety - 12 months CGS CONNECT membership
3rd prize
- MARI - Full Version Software
- CGWorkshops - Your choice of 1 CGWorkshop
- EXPOSÉ 10 Standard Edition
- CGSociety - 12 months CGS CONNECT membership
For more details and inspiration visit: MARI Texture Challenge 2012