Mari competition at CgSociety.com

jgreasley

Hello,



We've just launched a new Mari competition at CgSociety.

If you've ever fancied learning Mari now is a great opportunity.

The prizes are pretty amazing. A $7k HP Laptop, a Quadro k6000 worth $5k, Mari, Nuke and Modo Licenses.

Head over here for more information.

http://bit.ly/MARI2013

thomasp

FYI: it might be worth examining the OBJ's from the archive. seems the models from the archive are badly mangled when you try to open them in max or zbrush. mudbox manages but complained about tons of geometry flaws here.

i also noticed that the rider model is full of tiny detail like modelled stitching but the largest surfaces of the bike are quite low-res with badly beveled edges. not a good base for those who intend to focus on texturing and rendering.

also UV's seem only to be contained in the .lxo file - or they get ommitted on import on the OBJ for some reason.

jgreasley

Hi ,

Thanks for the comments. I'll get this checked out.

Jack

onionhead_o

on this end uvs are intact on all 3 models when I import into Maya. But I notice some messy areas on the mesh expecially on the BelkerBike_3.2mil obj. (un-welded vertices, holes, unintentional merging of vertices one one side of the vents) Otherwise its a cool looking model.

How much of the edits are we allowed to make on the mesh?

jgreasley

Hi,

Please feel free to tweak to model and Re-UV, but keep the general structure and UV patch count similar (i.e. please don't drop down to 2-3 patches)

We're looking at what we can do to clean things up our end.

Thanks for the feedback.

Jack

arrangemonk

if you open in blender and export to fpx
-> not jagged anymore

MM

are the software licence prizes full commercial licences that can be upgraded or are they nfr copies with no upgrades ?

jgreasley

They are full commercial licenses that will get a years worth of Maintainance included.

peanut™

jgreasley, thanks for the heads up, im no way a Mari user but this challenge would surely get me curious about this app. Nice way to get people into your software and promote it by making a contest.

jgreasley

Give it a go peanut! Mari's pretty easy to get going with.

I like running contests. It's really fun to see what different people make of the same geometry.

peanut™

jgreasley wrote: »

I like running contests. It's really fun to see what different people make of the same geometry.

Yes, i can't wait to see what the whole cgtalk/pc community comes up with. I may give it a try actually. You look like a cool person also,many thanks for this.

David-J

Looks great! Count me in.

jgreasley

A new version of the model has been uploaded at CgSociety.

Happy painting