9. Mari 4 - Manipulating Paint in the Buffer

In the Video:

• The Warp tool, the Slerp tool, and the Pinup tool

• Best practices for manipulating paint in the buffer

Test Your Knowledge

1.

Name three tools you can use to distort paint on the paint buffer.

2.

When using the Pinup tool, how do you adjust the strength of the pin?

Exercise

1.

Make some paint strokes on the paint buffer, but do not bake them down at this point.

2.

Select the Warp tool and draw a box over your paint strokes. You should now see a grid that can be manipulated.

3.

Add more points to the grid from the toolbar at the top by pressing the + button.

4.

Click and drag on the grid point to distort the paint. Press B to bake the warped paint to the model and rotate model to confirm paint is applied.

5.

Make more paint strokes without baking them down and then select the Slerp tool.

6.

Distort the paint with the Slerp tool and then bake your paint to the model. Rotate the model to confirm paint has been baked.

7.

Finally make some paint strokes without baking them, and then choose the Pinup tool.

8.

Hold down the Shift key on the keyboard and begin dropping pins onto your paint by clicking the area you want a pin.

9.

Release the Shift key, then click and drag on the dropped pins to distort the paint.

10.

Bake the paint to the model when you are finished and rotate the model to confirm baked paint.

Practice

Using either the Paint or Paint Through tool, add some paint to the buffer without baking it down to the model. While the paint is in the buffer, explore all of Mari's warping tools.