The Foundry (makers of MARI and NUKE) and CG Society is currently running the 2013 MARI Challenge

The challenge runs from October 1, 2013 until December 15, 2013

The announcement is as follows:

MARI is the VFX industry-standard 3D digital paint tool and we’re looking for the world’s best MARI artist. Are you up for a challenge? This year, the famous designer Harald Belker has graciously supplied us with a sci-fi hover bike. Harald’s vehicle and prop designs have appeared in countless films, including Total Recall, Oblivion and the Batmobile in Batman & Robin, Now is your opportunity to take one of Harald’s designs, modeled in MODO, texture it up and make it look amazing.

MARI license request Security-Bike-model

 

 

 

 

The artwork will be judged on the composition, attention to detail and general awesomeness. They want to see textures that tell a story. They will be looking for detailed, realistic textures in a lookdev-ready setup (a minimum of color, bump and spec maps for each shader). Details which make the textures more evocative will get bonus points too. You will receive extra points for submitting animated textures, turntables, renderable scenes (MODO, Maya, etc.) and showcasing your work in progress on CGTalk. –

FOR MAC USERS: MARI now runs on the MAC – (The Foundry is currently updating their website as of October 24th to reflect the new capabilities of running MARI on the MAC with selected graphics cards)

 

See more details, including lists of additional prizes, judges and more at: http://challenge.cgsociety.org/mari2013#sthash.hA2Y03ah.dpuf

MARI 2013 competition 1st prizes