The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.
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March 27, 2026Episode 3824 min
Rant 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/thenakedtextureartistContact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.comFollow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/Music copyright belongs to Tycho for the song Awake - https://tychomusic.com/Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
October 10, 2025Episode 3747 min
The Naked Texture Artist - Daniel Harkness - Episode 2
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 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 in VFX!I also speculate what the future will hold for VFX artists, specifically asset artists, as the economic foundation for our world and work is shifting beneath our feet. Enjoy!Daniel Harkness' website:https://www.danielharkness.com/ Daniel's excellent 8 part series on the value of a VFX artist:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-my-value-vfx-artist-part-1-daniel-harkness/ Also mentioned in this episode is: Alan Lasky's post on Carrier Loss:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alanlasky1_it-is-time-for-another-round-of-difficult-activity-7170301467503906818-0P2b/Why is VFX dying? Scott Galloway explains the market forces underneath the destruction:https://medium.com/@profgalloway/peak-hollywood-1f147623b714 The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard.Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartistContact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.comFollow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/Music copyright belongs to Tycho for the song Awake - https://tychomusic.com/Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
September 10, 2025Episode 3610 min
The Naked Texture Artist - PSA: Video
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 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.Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartistContact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.comFollow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/Music copyright belongs to Tycho for the song Awake - https://tychomusic.com/Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
June 9, 2025Episode 3545 min
The Naked Texture Artist - Daniel Harkness - Episode 1
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 addition to his work as a compositor and motion designer, writes his excellent observations on LinkedIn. I think for all of us, this period, in the industries of VFX, animation and games, has been a grim reminder that we are living in a house of cards. Many, if not all, artists have had to have some serious reflection on their career, and what their future will look like. Daniel’s excellent writing is very useful to help understand the market forces that underpin our work, as well as the value each of us have in terms of dollars and cents. I hope getting to know Daniel’s writing can be as instructive and helpful for you too, as it has been for me. Daniel Harkness' website:https://www.danielharkness.com/ Daniel's excellent 8 part series on the value of a VFX artist:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-my-value-vfx-artist-part-1-daniel-harkness/ Also mentioned in this episode is:The famous blog of VFX Soldier:https://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/ Joseph Bell's insightful global overview of VFX:https://www.vfxatlas.com/ Why is VFX dying? Scott Galloway explains the market forces underneath the destruction:https://medium.com/@profgalloway/peak-hollywood-1f147623b714 The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard.Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartistContact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.comFollow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/Music copyright belongs to Tycho for the song Awake - https://tychomusic.com/Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
May 27, 2025Episode 3414 min
Naked Pixels - Having Another Creative Career on the Side - Advice for Working Artists
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.You can catch the full conversation on The Naked Texture Artist, wherever you get your podcasts.Thanks for listening!The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard.Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartistContact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.comFollow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/Music copyright belongs to Tycho for the song Awake - https://tychomusic.com/Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
May 19, 2025Episode 336 min
Naked Pixels - Mental Methods to Cope With Stress - Advice for Working Artists
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 get your podcasts.Thanks for listening!The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard.Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartistContact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.comFollow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/Music copyright belongs to Tycho for the song Awake - https://tychomusic.com/Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
May 12, 2025Episode 3255 min
The Naked Texture Artist - Myriam Catrin - Episode 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. 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 great and truly special artists. I am sure you will agree, when you have listened to her take on all the greatness talk. There is no sunshine without occasional darkness: Myriam shares a very personal episode, where her work broke her and how she managed to steer herself back to health again. If you want to know the innerworkings of one of the best texture artists in VFX today, the highs and the lows, Myriam shares very generously and fearlessly of her experience. Enjoy! Myriam is a fantastic artist, who's work and interests reach far beyond VFX. Do yourself a favour, please, and explore and support the amazing work Myriam also does: https://www.artstation.com/myriamcatrin Sadly her amazing comic book, Passages, is currently sold out. But look out for new print runs here: https://shop.publicdomain.paris/product/passages-myriam-catrin Myriam has also recently contributed beautiful artwork to the Modern Calligraphy Bible: https://schifferbooks.com/products/modern-calligraphy-bible As well as the exciting project Nariko's Voyage, which is in development for TV: https://www.narikosvoyage.com/ We also talk about the multi-facetted Martin Hill, who’s excellent pottery can be found here: https://www.martinhillceramics.com/ Hokusai of legend: https://images.app.goo.gl/S1PvUoHf7wVptqNJ6 We refer back to Steven Pressfield’s indispensable book The War of Art. Read it many, many times. It will enable you to do your best work: https://stevenpressfield.com/books/the-war-of-art/ Myriam refers to the breakthrough style of Alberto Mielgo, who of course created the seminal Jibaro episode for Love Death + Robots https://www.albertomielgo.com/ The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard.Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartistContact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.comFollow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/Music copyright belongs to Tycho for the song Awake - https://tychomusic.com/Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
May 5, 2025Episode 316 min
Naked Pixels - Breaking Into the Industry - Advice for Working Artists
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"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, wherever you get your podcasts.Thanks for listening!The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard.Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartistContact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.comFollow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/Music copyright belongs to Tycho for the song Awake - https://tychomusic.com/Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
April 28, 2025Episode 3039 min
The Naked Texture Artist - Martin Murphy - Episode 1
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 VFX to pursue that dream. Needless to say, there is a lot of wisdom, learnings and experience to extract from Martin's life and story.Lots of important advice for any artist working in VFX or animation.See Martin's amazing artwork here:https://martinmurphyart.com/We also mention ILM https://www.ilm.com/Bryce: http://www.bryce3d.co.uk/Digital Extremes: https://www.digitalextremes.com/Lightwave: https://www.lightwave3d.com/And his appearance on the Framethrowers podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@framethrower5373The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard.Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartistContact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.comFollow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/Music copyright belongs to Tycho for the song Awake - https://tychomusic.com/Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
April 21, 2025Episode 2912 min
Naked Pixels - How To Fight Creative Block (Adam Capone) - Advice for Working Artists
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 get your podcasts.Thanks for listening!The Naked Texture Artist is produced by Marque Pierre Sondergaard.Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thenakedtextureartistContact us on thenakedtextureartist@gmail.comFollow us on https://www.instagram.com/thenakedtextureartist/Music copyright belongs to Tycho for the song Awake - https://tychomusic.com/Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
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