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 the bigger questions about the VFX industry and our role in it, are harder to answer. Daniel Harkness, in ...
Jun 09, 2025•46 min•Ep. 35
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 that was useful for you, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help. Y...
May 27, 2025•15 min•Ep. 34
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 colleagues. I would appreciate your help. You can catch the full conversation on The Naked Texture Artist, wherever you ...
May 19, 2025•7 min•Ep. 33
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 texture artist? Her work speaks for itself, but more than ability and talents, it is Myriam’s humanity that make...
May 12, 2025•56 min•Ep. 32
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 appreciate your help. You can catch the full conversation on The Naked Texture Artist, wherever you get your podcasts. Th...
May 05, 2025•6 min•Ep. 31
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 to that, as a fulltime vocation? I know a lot of us do. Martin Murphy left a highly successful career in ...
Apr 28, 2025•39 min•Ep. 30
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 colleagues. I would appreciate your help. You can catch the full conversation on The Naked Texture Artist, wherever you...
Apr 21, 2025•13 min•Ep. 29
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 colleagues. I would appreciate your help. You can catch the full conversation on The Naked Texture Artist...
Apr 14, 2025•8 min•Ep. 28
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. Over her 20+ year career, Jami has collected priceless insights for all artists, who try to balance a family wi...
Apr 07, 2025•45 min•Ep. 27
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 help. You can catch the full conversation on The Naked Texture Artist, wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for lis...
Mar 31, 2025•7 min•Ep. 26
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 friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help. You can catch the full conversation on The Naked Texture Artist, ...
Mar 24, 2025•8 min•Ep. 25
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, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help. You can catch the fu...
Mar 17, 2025•6 min•Ep. 24
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. Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartist Contact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.com Follow us on http...
Mar 10, 2025•4 min•Ep. 23
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, feel free to share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help. You can catch the ...
Mar 03, 2025•3 min•Ep. 22
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 friends and colleagues. I would appreciate your help. You can catch the full conversation on The Naked Texture Art...
Feb 24, 2025•8 min•Ep. 21
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 that would be useful for you, I would appreciate your help: Feel free to share the podcast with your frie...
Feb 17, 2025•5 min•Ep. 20
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 Manuel calmly handles explosive situations in the studio. Him and I have often gone over such incidents in ou...
Feb 03, 2025•33 min•Ep. 19
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 times. In my opinion Myriam has been producing some of the world's absolutely best texture work for decades! Over...
Oct 24, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 18
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 times. Myriam is absolutely one of the world's very best texture artists (my calculation, not hers)! Over the c...
Jul 02, 2024•40 min•Ep. 17
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 yourself have a period in your life, where you are outrageously creative, and then it changes? What happens? Wha...
Feb 04, 2024•57 min•Ep. 16
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 world's most famous texture artist! I had the good fortune to meet Adam when we were both studying at University ...
Jan 12, 2024•59 min•Ep. 15
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 a trickle here and there. But the whole “strikes are over and now everybody go back to work” was of cou...
Dec 25, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 14
We'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 for the song Awake - https://tychomusic.com/ Add...
Nov 10, 2023•11 min•Ep. 13
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. 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...
Oct 30, 2023•29 min•Ep. 12
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 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...
Oct 09, 2023•49 min•Ep. 11
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. 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 continue...
Sep 11, 2023•48 min
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. 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 abo...
Aug 13, 2023•42 min•Ep. 8
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. 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 ...
Aug 01, 2023•37 min•Ep. 7
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. 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 ...
Jul 17, 2023•32 min•Ep. 6
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. 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 n...
Jul 11, 2023•25 min•Ep. 5
