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The Naked Texture ArtistRant 2: Is Recruitment Broken?We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! "Starting my day, with the first conscious thoughts are seething and swearing blind at nice and decent people. 12 hours later that pain is still with me. I just don't think I can be happy for other people getting jobs anymore. This job market is broken..."The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard. Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartist Contact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.com Follow us...
2025-12-0824 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Daniel Harkness - Episode 2We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.The conversation with Daniel Harkness continues as he revisits being that talented young artist, who had to take a major detour, before we getting back in touch with art again. We also compare notes on gigs, motivation and the joys of working in a well-oiled team.Please enlighten and treat yourself with Daniel's excellent writing on being an artist...
2025-10-1047 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - PSA: VideoWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.Marking our 2 year anniversary, here is a public service announcement about where The Naked Texture Artist podcast is going:Going forward, we are moving to video. Regarding The Naked Pixels, I am scaling back the release schedule. Find my reasoning and the background information in this episode.The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard.
2025-09-1010 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Daniel Harkness - Episode 1We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists. It is very exciting to find people who think deep and hard thoughts about the work we do and the industry we work in. We are not short on people, who can teach us how to carry out the work, but the bigger questions about the VFX industry and our role in it, are harder to answer. Daniel Harkness, in...
2025-06-0945 min
The Naked Texture ArtistNaked Pixels - Having Another Creative Career on the Side - Advice for Working ArtistsWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! On The Naked Texture Artist, I have deep and honest conversations with working artists.Here is a snippet, which is genuinely useful advice for any artist:Jami Gigot explains, "how she manages her side hustle as a children's book illustrator" combined with her hectic career in the film industry. Enjoy!https://www.jamigigot.com/If that was useful for you, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate y...
2025-05-2714 min
The Naked Texture ArtistNaked Pixels - Mental Methods to Cope With Stress - Advice for Working ArtistsWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! On The Naked Texture Artist, I have deep and honest conversations with working artists.Here is a snippet, which is genuinely useful advice for any artist:Chris Nichols explains, "how he copes with stress" in a hectic career in the film industry. Enjoy!If that was useful for you, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help.You can catch the full conversation o...
2025-05-1906 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Myriam Catrin - Episode 6We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists. Welcome to the sixth and penultimate slice from my conversation with the Dragon Lady. In this part I finally bring up the reason I wanted to talk to her: Is Myriam Catrin the world’s best texture artist? Her work speaks for itself, but more than ability and talents, it is Myriam’s humanity that make her one of the gr...
2025-05-1255 min
The Naked Texture ArtistNaked Pixels - Breaking Into the Industry - Advice for Working ArtistsWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! On The Naked Texture Artist, I have deep and honest conversations with working artists.Here is a snippet, which is genuinely useful advice for any artist:Manuel Huertas Marchena recounts, "how he broke into the film industry"EnjoyIf that was useful for you, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help.You can catch the full conversation on The Naked Texture Artist...
2025-05-0506 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Martin Murphy - Episode 1We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.How many of us are doing some form of traditional art on the side?Most of us. After all, this is the origin we came from: pencils and pens and paper and paint. How many of us dream of returning to that, as a fulltime vocation?I know a lot of us do.M...
2025-04-2839 min
The Naked Texture ArtistNaked Pixels - How To Fight Creative Block (Adam Capone) - Advice for Working ArtistsWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! On The Naked Texture Artist, I have deep and honest conversations with working artists.Here is a snippet, which is genuinely useful advice for any artist:World's most famous games artist Adam Capone explains, "How to break out of a creative rut?"Enjoy!If that was useful for you, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help.You can catch the full conversation on The Naked Texture A...
2025-04-2112 min
The Naked Texture ArtistNaked Pixels - How To Start An Asset (Myriam Catrin) - Advice for Working ArtistsWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! On The Naked Texture Artist, I have deep and honest conversations with working artists.Here is a snippet, which is genuinely useful advice for any artist:The Dragon Lady, Myriam Catrin, explains, her process for getting film quality assets off to a good start.Enjoy!If that was useful for you, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help.You can catch the full conversation on The Naked...
2025-04-1407 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Jami Gigot - Episode 1We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.Let me introduce you to the amazing Jami Gigot, texture supervisor at ILM, prolific children's book illustrator and... mother.Yes, there is a lot of interesting gems in this conversation. Over her 20+ year career, Jami has collected priceless insights for all artists, who try to balance a family with a career in VFX or animation; or who dream of...
2025-04-0744 min
The Naked Texture ArtistNaked Pixels - How To Start An Asset (Manuel Huertas) - Advice for Working ArtistsWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! On The Naked Texture Artist, I have deep and honest conversations with working artists.Here is a snippet, which is genuinely useful advice for any artist:Manuel Huertas Marchena explains, "How to start an asset?"Enjoy!If that was useful for you, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help.You can catch the full conversation on The Naked Texture Artist, wherever you...
2025-03-3107 min
The Naked Texture ArtistNaked Pixels - Reels That Help You Break In - Advice for Working ArtistsWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! On The Naked Texture Artist, I have deep and honest conversations with working artists.Here is a snippet, which is genuinely useful advice for any artist:Mr. Thanos, Chris Nichols explains, "what makes a good reel to help a beginner break into the industry?"Enjoy!If that was useful for you, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help.You...
2025-03-2407 min
The Naked Texture ArtistNaked Pixels - What Advice Would You Give to Yourself Starting Out? - Advice for Working ArtistsWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! On The Naked Texture Artist, I have deep and honest conversations with working artists.Here is a snippet, which is genuinely useful advice for any artist:After nearly 20 years in the games industry, storied artist Adam Capone explains, "what advice he would have given to his younger self starting out."Enjoy!If that was useful for you, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help.You can...
2025-03-1706 min
The Naked Texture ArtistNaked Pixels - What Is The Hardest Asset to Do? - Advice for Working ArtistsWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! On The Naked Texture Artist, I have deep and honest conversations with working artists.Here is a snippet, which is genuinely useful advice for any artist:Senior Texture Artist Chris Nichols, of Thanos fame, explains, "what is the hardest asset to produce in CG?"Enjoy!The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard. Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartist
2025-03-1003 min
The Naked Texture ArtistNaked Pixels - How to Give Variation to a Subtle Asset? - Advice for Working ArtistsWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! On The Naked Texture Artist, I have deep and honest conversations with working artists.Here is a snippet, which is genuinely useful advice for any artist:Senior Texture Artist Myriam Catrin explains, "How to give variation to a subtle asset?" She is referring to her work on the trilobite from Prometheus. Enjoy!If that was useful for you, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help.You c...
2025-03-0303 min
The Naked Texture ArtistNaked Pixels - What Makes a Good Artist Great? - Advice for Working ArtistsWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! On The Naked Texture Artist, I have deep and honest conversations with working artists.Here is a snippet, which is genuinely useful advice for any artist:Texture Supervisor Claudia Marvisi explains, "what is the different between a good and a truly great artist?"Enjoy!If that was useful for you, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help.
2025-02-2407 min
The Naked Texture ArtistNaked Pixels - Advice for Working Artists - IntroductionWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! On The Naked Texture Artist, I have deep and honest conversations with working artists.I would like to introduce a new format, an addition to the podcast. In Naked Pixels, I will cut these longer-form conversations into smaller snippets, centered on advice, which is genuinely useful advice for any working artist. Enjoy this new format!Finally, if that would be useful for you, I would appreciate your help: Feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. Yo...
2025-02-1704 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Manuel Huertas Marchena - Episode 3We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.Let me share the third cut from my conversation with Manuel Huertas Marchena. When I first wanted to record Manuel's experiences, there was a certain moment that was etched into my mind: How Manuel calmly handles explosive situations in the studio. Him and I have often gone over such incidents in our conversations; m...
2025-02-0332 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Myriam Catryn - Episode 5We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.This is the fifth episode with the matchless Myriam Catrin, The Dragon Lady, who for multiple decades have created textures and looks for some of cinema's most memorable assets in modern times. In my opinion Myriam has been producing some of the world's absolutely best texture work for decades!Over the course 4 hours in 2021, we...
2024-10-241h 04
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Myriam Catrin - Episode 4We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.This is the fourth episode with the phenomenal Myriam Catrin, The Dragon Lady, who for multiple decades have created textures and looks for some of cinema's most memorable assets in modern times. Myriam is absolutely one of the world's very best texture artists (my calculation, not hers)!Over the course 4 hours in 2021, we had an...
2024-07-0240 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Adam Capone - Episode 2We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.Eagerly back for the second slice of my conversation with the world's most famous texture artist, Adam Capone.This is the part I really wanted to explore: When you have an artist, or you yourself have a period in your life, where you are outrageously creative, and then it changes? W...
2024-02-0456 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Adam Capone - Episode 1We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.Do you know Adam Capone? Probably not. He quietly goes about his work as an artist in games development. He definitely doesn't seek out the limelight. Which is odd, as he is probably the world's most famous texture artist!I had the good fortune to meet Adam when we were both studying at...
2024-01-1258 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Chris Nichols - Episode 4We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.The catastrophe has not been called off. Yet. The Hollywood strikes are resolved, supposedly. But obviously it will take time to rebuild what the drought has destroyed. Hiring has started again as a trickle here and there. But the whole “strikes are over and now everybody go back to work” was of course never going to materialise. So most people out ther...
2023-12-251h 05
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Rant 1 - The StrikesWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! I went to bed with the news that the actors' union (SAG) had ended their strike last night, and this morning, "I woke up with murder on my mind!"The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard. Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartist Contact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.com Follow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/ Music copyright belongs to Tycho...
2023-11-1011 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Manuel Huertas Marchena - Episode 2We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.We are returning for a second slice of my conversation with Manuel Huertas Marchena. Manuel shares his approach to assets surface work. We also talk discrimination and you can do on your end to pre-empt it. Manuel explains how he got his start in the VFX industry and what advice he would give to his younger self. Lots interesting a...
2023-10-3028 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Claudia Marvisi - Episode 3We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.This is the final episode from my conversation with Claudia Marvisi, texture supervisor from Pixomondo. Claudia explains how she ended up picking texturing out of all the disciplines of the VFX pipeline; We also talk discrimination in the workplace, what the future will hold for texture artists, and Claudia explains what makes a good texture artist great. Lots of p...
2023-10-0948 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Chris Nichols - Episode 3We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.These are grim times. More than half of the good people in the film industry are without work these days. If that includes you too, you are certainly not alone. Speak up and share your pain with your friends and former colleagues.We need some “comfort food for artists.” Chris Nichols and I cont...
2023-09-1148 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Claudia Marvisi - Episode 2We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.As we are continuing our conversation with Claudia Marvisi, texture supervisor from Pixomondo, we drill down into the topics that make up her day-to-day life as an artist and a team lead. This episode contains a lot of practical advice from a talented and seasoned artist. You can also learn more about Claudia on her LinkedIn profile:...
2023-08-1341 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Claudia Marvisi - Episode 1We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.I am proud to present none other than Claudia Marvisi. https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiamarvisi/Claudia has risen through the ranks of Pixomondo, where she today serves as texture supervisor. I first came across her on an online presentation called An Asset is Born, where she spoke intelligently about texturing and more. And so her name p...
2023-08-0237 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Chris Nichols - Episode 2We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.Our conversation with Chris Nichols continues, as we both dip into the depths of facing unemployment, despite being an incredibly talented texture and creature artist, as well as the highs of finding inspiration and joy from the watching the work of creature heavyweights like Gino Acevedo.Chris is easily one of my favourite guests on this show, and you...
2023-07-1732 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Chris Nichols - Episode 1We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.I am so happy to bring Chris Nichols to The Naked Texture Artist. He is definitely most famous for painting the textures of Thanos for Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, but more than that, he is truly an artist's artist. His passion for creature work and cinema is infectious and reminds us, that no matter how successful we are, we are...
2023-07-1125 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Myriam Catrin - Episode 3We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.This is the third episode with the phenomenal Myriam Catrin, The Dragon Lady, who for multiple decades have created textures and looks for some of cinema's most memorable assets in modern times. Myriam is absolutely one of the world's very best texture artists (my calculation, not hers)!Over the course 4 hours in 2021, we had an in-depth and very wide...
2023-06-2227 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Manuel Huertas Marchena - Episode 1We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.I am excited to present this, the first episode with my good friend Manuel Huertas Marchena. I met Manuel a million years ago, when we worked on Deadpool together. He was already doing amazing hero work back then. More than that, he quickly became my favourite ex-colleague, with whom I discuss all of t...
2023-06-1426 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Myriam Catrin - Episode 2We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.This episode is the second of many with the one and only Myriam Catrin, The Dragon Lady, who for multiple decades have created textures and looks for some of cinema's most memorable assets in modern times. Myriam is absolutely one of the world's very best texture artists (my words, not hers)!Over the...
2023-06-0826 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Myriam Catrin - Episode 1We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.This episode is the first of many with the one and only Myriam Catrin, The Dragon Lady, who for multiple decades have created textures and looks for some of cinema's most memorable assets in modern times. Myriam is absolutely one of the world's very best texture artists (my words, not hers)!Over the...
2023-06-0541 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - TrailerWe'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! Welcome to The Naked Texture Artist! A brief intro of what we are about.The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard. Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartist Contact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.com Follow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/ Music copyright belongs to Tycho for the song Awake - https://tychomusic.com/ Additional sound...
2023-05-2201 min
The Naked Texture ArtistThe Naked Texture Artist - Episode 0We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text! Before we begin, please let me explain my motivations and ideas behind this podcast, and give you an overview of what I hope to achieve in future episodes.The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard. Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartist Contact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.com Follow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/ Music copyright belongs to Tycho for...
2023-05-2217 min