# Mari Reviews **Vendor:** Foundry **Category:** [Animation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/animation) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About Mari Mari® is 3D painting without limits, combining the power and performance to handle even the most complex assets with artist-friendly 3D paint tools that make the most of your creativity. ## Mari Reviews ### 1. Great tool for complex 3d painting **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simone G. | Rigger - Animatore - Animatore tecnico, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Mari?** Final results are impressive, this software gives you all the control for a precise paint and blend between layers. Price is very good for such a piece of software **What do you dislike about Mari?** A lot of patience is required, it's not an easy software and requires a lot of time to be understood. **Recommendations to others considering Mari:** You can try it for free from the official website **What problems is Mari solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows fast preview of the painting and gives a lot of tools for layer editing. It is a must-have software for big studios, probably best if used beside Substance or another similar software ### 2. The industry standard Texturing application. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Mari?** Mari is the most crucial texturing application for the professional CG industry. It is user-friendly and simultaneously packs all the features required to maintain a smooth pipeline flow in a big studio. **What do you dislike about Mari?** It lacks the integration of a good renderer for checking the textures in the program itself. However, that might change with upcoming updates. **What problems is Mari solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mari can handle lots of high-resolution lossless textures where other programs usually fail. In addition, it features Node-based workflow, a massive upgrade from the traditional layer-based workflow. ### 3. Amazing texture tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yu Chieh S. | Computer Graphic Artist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Mari?** Workflow, Projection painting, (32 float brings all the detail!) All the adjustment control mask control (edge, fractal) you could distort the texture on distorted geo. Swap texture when UV of the geo changed by using transfer tool! **What do you dislike about Mari?** PBR for vray is not that properly working, Displacement map isn't really apply or you don't see it as strong as others. mirror painting is not user friendly when your geo is not in the center. Painting texture for Ptex is really hard when it comes to folded geo. **Recommendations to others considering Mari:** Mari gives you a lot of detail control that is so strong and unique. No matter what engine you are using for rendering. as long as you know the value and workflow of your channels. Mari provides the industrial quality work result that clients want. Besides, it is a perfect tool for independent artist to work on their side projects. **What problems is Mari solving and how is that benefiting you?** Texture and material customize all the features that clients want. ### 4. Good software for texture **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madhankumar M. | Senior VFX Faculty, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Mari?** Easy texture and painting very realistic **What do you dislike about Mari?** It's very complicated to beginners to learn **What problems is Mari solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compare with other software it's easy problem solving textures ### 5. MARI - GREAT FOR PAINTING **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daphia G. | Freelance 3D Game Artist, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Mari?** I like that it is just as powerful as other industry tools like the substance package, however there still is a bit of a leaning curve and tools work differently but still great in its own right. **What do you dislike about Mari?** The learning curve, clustered UI but you can edit all that. **Recommendations to others considering Mari:** Update regularly, check out tutorials and it will do wonders! **What problems is Mari solving and how is that benefiting you?** This package helps for odd end things so it is good to have this with other software. ### 6. Awesome texture! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Mari?** This is a very valuable texturing tool. The projection painting is so useful. **What do you dislike about Mari?** This toolset is a bit expensive and takes some learning, but other than that I loved the product. **What problems is Mari solving and how is that benefiting you?** This helped with texture painting. The benefits are the high resolutions. ### 7. Pretty good **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Mari?** It’s a pretty easy interface to use especially in my line of work **What do you dislike about Mari?** Nothing in particular that I don’t like. **What problems is Mari solving and how is that benefiting you?** My boss uses Mari to help analyze our business and provide solutions ### 8. Good tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miroslav B. | 3D Asset Artist / 3D Generalist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Mari?** Best UDIMs workflow, node-base system, python scripting **What do you dislike about Mari?** It demands powerful hardware. Baking is not perfect(Substance has better solution). Price too high. **What problems is Mari solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Mari for usual texture painting. It has excellent painting tools, can handle hundreds UDIMs. I could write my own scripts to speedup the work. ### 9. MARI 3 the high end for texture artists **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike G. | Director, Motion Pictures and Film, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Mari?** Once you get through the interface and start working with MARI there is no more robust texture toolset on the market. MARI can work with huge texture sizes and multiple UDIMS, putting it into a class leading workflow. The controls are simple and intuitive and the ability to work woth a wide range of file types is excellent too. In version 3, The Foundry have added a wide range of shader options covering a wide range of render and game engines from V-ray to Unreal to allow full clarity of how your textures will look in the finished scene. Also the range of camera and projector options means that MARI can be an excellent tool for creating roto patches as well as solving a lot of retouching issues. **What do you dislike about Mari?** As with most Foundry products, MARI is expensive compared to the competition. Also MARI is a hardware hog, so check the specs of your system to make sure it is compatible, forget it you don't have a discreet GPU. Another thing that MARI could do with is a range of preset textures and material to get you up and running, which a lot of it's competitors come with. **Recommendations to others considering Mari:** Check the specifications of your machine, if it is capable of running MARI, there are few applciations which cater so well for texture creation for any case use **What problems is Mari solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mari is excellent for creating textures for 3D models and offers workflows especially at higher res which cannot be matched by any application on the market ### 10. Superb Texture Painting application, With High Resolution, UDIM, Photoshop Brushes/LayerPSD Support. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Mari?** The ability to paint huge texture maps with resolutions spanning 1k-64k, with UDIMs and Layer support. the ability to import photoshop brush presets directly, which is a huge time saver since the need to create new bursh presets for mari is eliminated. Even with such high resolution Layered and UDIM texture MARI is very responsive while painting textures it allows for direct import export to psd files. it even allows to build occlusion maps for using as dirt maps etc within the MARI itself. **What do you dislike about Mari?** Depends on an a decent Nvidia GPU with Cuda support, so AMD card users are left out here. A minor lag occurs right before navigating viewport as the currently painted strokes are baked into the texture map before navigation proceeds. Since it's purely a texturing app any sort of modification to the model is not possible even if minor tweaks, which is possible in competing apps like Mudbox or Zbrush. **Recommendations to others considering Mari:** If you need a stable and high quality texture painting app which does what its best at doing, look further Mari is for you. **What problems is Mari solving and how is that benefiting you?** Painting textures at extremely high resolutions 16k-64k with layers and UDIM with an interactive view in the viewport which was previously not possible. ### 11. Texturing Solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hussein B. | Lecturer, Graphic Designer and 3D Artist, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Mari?** It made texturing so much fun and easy to do, no more go back and forth between photoshop and 3D software, guessing where the seams are, trying hiding them. **What do you dislike about Mari?** sometimes it crash while you are in the middle of your work. also I wish if there's more control on navigation like for example holding shift in ZBrush to snap the view in orthographic and so on. Extension Pack did some quick masking like in Quixel, but still leak of control and you should work with them on node mode. **Recommendations to others considering Mari:** I do recommend it very much, it will save you so much time. Gives you the end result so quickly before exporting to your 3D package, so no need to do some tests here and there. **What problems is Mari solving and how is that benefiting you?** no more straggling on hiding seams... and procedural layers are just fantastic. ### 12. Mari is the best for texturing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2016 **What do you like best about Mari?** Incomparable texture painting in 3d. Projections, live paint, deformations you name it **What do you dislike about Mari?** Very Slow and buggy. New features are prioritzed over performance impvoments **Recommendations to others considering Mari:** Use it alongside Maya or Houdini to get the most out of it. Would definitely not recommend to people who are scared of comples user interfaces! **What problems is Mari solving and how is that benefiting you?** Other software does not allow the quality of texture painting that Mari offers ## Mari Discussions - [What is Mari used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-mari-used-for) - [View Mari pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/mari/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+21%3A47%3A50+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=9391595c-debf-4e7b-9732-4e3c5d286325&secure%5Btoken%5D=a81af758a1b50df55c509aa18fc0f83e357ac94b07fba6d098c49958888a190f&format=llm_user) ## Mari Features **Design** - Brush Variety - Color - Effects **Generative AI** - AI Image-to-Text - AI Text-to-3D **Detail** - Sculpt - Dynamic Tessellation - Texture - Unwrap - UV Mapping **Agentic AI - Animation** - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration **Logistics** - Import - Integrations - Export **Generative AI** - AI Text-to-Image - AI Text-to-3D ## Top Mari Alternatives - [Blender](https://www.g2.com/products/blender/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (305 reviews) - [Adobe Substance 3D Painter](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-substance-3d-painter/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (108 reviews) - [Maya](https://www.g2.com/products/maya/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (259 reviews)