The Foundry releases MARI 1.4

London – Visual effects software developer The Foundry, has announced the release of MARI 1.4. Designed from the ground up to meet the needs of VFX texture and matte painting artists, MARI is a 3D digital paint tool that simplifies artist workflow.

Capable of handling vast numbers of pixels, MARI allows artists to concentrate on painting detailed, multi-layered textures directly onto 3D models in a fluid and natural way.

Introducing Adobe Photoshop layered PSD import and export, industry standard colour management with OpenColorIO and triplanar projection, MARI 1.4 speeds up and simplifies workflow. With this new tool, artists can also solve commonplace VFX problems, save time, and work in ways never thought possible before.

In the past year MARI has been widely adopted across the industry at leading film studios and post production houses including Sony Picture Imageworks, DreamWorks, Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar and Digital Domain to name a few.

MARI 1.4 is available immediately and runs on Windows and Linux. It supports Ptex, Python OpenEXR, and C API.