The Naked Texture Artist - Claudia Marvisi - Episode 1

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 promptly entered my mental notebook as someone I'd like to discuss textures with now and in the future.

Recently Claudia graciously gave me over 2 hours of her time; where we discussed everything from balancing the demands of being a team lead and supervisor to occasionally satisfying her own individual needs as an artist. Yep, she is a dragon fan as well – and with her impressive work on House of the Dragon, she has entered herself into the pantheon of texture artists battling it out for best dragon of all time.

There will of course be multiple episodes from this conversation. Here we are just getting warmed up. Make sure you check all of them out. 


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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 effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

Chapters

• 1:35 Intro
• 4:30 Interview start - The thing about seniors
• 11:37 Intermission: Hard lessons learned early
• 14:23 Good habits make the world go round
• 17:11 Is it worth it, being a lead?
• 19:38 Stealing a little time to be an artist
• 20:35 Split between art and team management
• 21:39 Dragons!
• 22:59 Intermission: Dreams need graft too
• 23:38 Dragons, pirates and other geek dreams
• 24:41 Beginnings and disclaimers about "being an artist"
• 28:02 Growing up drawing and first moments with computer graphics
• 30:27 Family influences?
• 31:38 The difficult circumstances for artists in Italy
• 32:45 Technology created a path forward through CGI
• 35:30 Outro