The Naked Texture Artist

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...

We'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 not...

We'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...

We'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 t...

We'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 t...

We'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 colle...

We'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 textur...

We'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" Enjoy If that was useful for you, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreci...

We'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...

We'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...

We'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 c...

We'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. Ov...

We'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 hel...

We'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 frien...

We'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, f...

We'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. Sup...

We'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...

We'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...

We'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...

We'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...

We'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 time...

We'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 ti...

We'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 yo...

We'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 worl...

We'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...