Marque Pierre Sondergaard

Marque Pierre Sondergaard

World's Most Enthusiastic Texture Artist!

Senior Texture Artist / Senior Look Development / 13 yrs

Montréal, Canada

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Texture Artist

Road House (2024)

Lookdev Artist

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)

Senior Texture Artist

Ahsoka (2023)

Senior Visual Effects Texture Artist

Fast X (2023)

Texture Artist

Tetris (2023)

Lookdev Artist

The Gray Man (2022)

Senior Surfacing Artist

Halo (2022)

Surfacing Artist

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

Texture Artist

Shang-Chi (2021)

Texture Artist

Eternals (2021)

Surfacing Artist

Mila (2021)

Senior Texture Artist

Locke & Key (2020)

Surfacing Artist

The Command (2019)

Senior Surfacing Artist

Too Old to Die Young (2019)

Senior Surfacing Artist

The Lighthouse (2019)

Character Artist (Unknown Episodes)

Zafari (2018)

3D Generalist

A Little Chaos (2015)

3D Generalist

The Face of an Angel (2015)

Senior Texture Artist

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Senior Surfacing Artist

Halo: Nightfall (2014)

Senior Surfacing Artist

Locke and Key

Senior Surfacing Artist

The Expanse (2015)

Senior Texture Artist

Playmobil: The Missing Piece (2019)

Senior Surfacing Artist

Angel Has Fallen (2019)

Texture Artist

Extinction (2018)

Surfacing Artist

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

Texture Artist

Allied (2016)

Texture Artist

Deadpool (2016)

Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Texture Artist

Kilo Two Bravo (2015)

Texture Artist / 3D Generalist / Layout TD / Lighting TD / Texturing A

Olympus (2015)

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

Texture Artist

Ender's Game (2013)

VFX Runner

Battle of the Year (2013)

VFX Runner

Iron Man 3 (2013)

VFX Runner

Dead Man Down (2013)

VFX Runner

The Watch (2012)

VFX Runner

Rock of Ages (2012)

Localization Tester

Lair (2007)

Texture Artist

Kajaki

Digital Effects

Life of Bri' n Chris

For the past 10+ years I have worked as a texture artist in film across studios in London, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

Not only am I ever more in love with this work, after a decade of toiling in the trenches, but I have also enjoyed starting teaching and mentoring other artists. That has taken place in my workplace, where I have mentored junior artists fresh out of school up to being independent midlevel artists, as well as in colleges and universities, where I have taught texturing to beginners.

I am a texture artist's texture artist: I obsessively collect techniques, facts and bits of VFX history from texturing, asset work and CGI in general. This is what I do, this is my life's work. I'd be happy to share it with you!
Work History

  • Lead Texture Artist & Art Director

    VeVe

    November 2023 - Present
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Remote

    Texturing of real-time assets, mostly characters, in Substance Painter and Mari for Unity.

  • Podcaster

    The Naked Texture Artist podcast

    June 2023 - Present
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Hybrid

    The Naked Texture Artist is a podcast where VFX/animation veterans have deep and honest conversations about their challenges and growth as working artists.

    Find the podcast on iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Android, SoundCloud, or wherever you find your podcasts.

  • Mentor

    Think Tank Training Centre

    December 2022 - Present
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Remote

  • Lead Texture Artist

    VeVe

    December 2023 - May 2024

  • Senior Texture Artist

    Alchemy 24

    March 2023 - September 2023
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Hybrid

  • Senior Texture Artist

    Industrial Light & Magic

    August 2022 - March 2023
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Instructor

    The Animation Workshop, VIA University College

    September 2022 - October 2022
    Viborg, Middle Jutland, Denmark

    Teaching a module on Mari for creature texturing. That included writing the curriculum, demonstrating techniques as well as supervising and guiding the individual work of each student.

  • Texture Artist

    ScanlineVFX Montreal

    February 2022 - August 2022
    Montreal, Canada

  • Organic Texture Artist

    Method Studios

    July 2021 - February 2022
    Montreal, Canada

  • Texture Artist

    Cinesite

    February 2021 - July 2021
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • Texture Artist

    ScanlineVFX

    July 2020 - December 2020
    Montreal, Canada Area

  • Senior Surfacing Artist

    Rocket Science VFX

    April 2019 - July 2020
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Senior Texture Artist

    Digital District

    May 2017 - February 2019
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • Guest Lecturer

    Dawson College

    April 2017 - July 2017
    Montreal, Canada Area

    Teaching texture painting and Mari

  • Texture Artist

    Digital Dimension

    November 2016 - March 2017
    Montreal, Canada Area

  • Texture Artist

    Atomic Fiction

    September 2015 - September 2016
    Montreal, Canada Area

    Surfacing work for hardsurface assets done in Mari, Katana, Maya, Vray and Nuke. Lesser modelling work as well.

  • Texture Artist

    Passion Pictures

    August 2015 - August 2015
    London, United Kingdom

    Painting textures for characters and props for commercials for Wall's and Compare the Market.

  • Texture Artist & 3D Generalist

    Lipsync Post

    April 2015 - June 2015
    London, United Kingdom

    Texturing environments for Olympus (2015), 3D generalist work: modelling for DMP projections, animation of environments, layout, camera and shot lighting work. Software used: Mari, Maya, Arnold and Nuke.

  • lighting td

    Lipsync Post

    April 2015 - May 2015

  • Texture Artist

    Nexus Productions

    January 2015 - March 2015
    London, United Kingdom

    Creating textures for vehicles, indoor and outdoor environments in Mari for a commercial.

  • Texture Artist & 3D Generalist

    Lipsync Post

    August 2014 - January 2015
    London, United Kingdom

    Texturing vehicles for Kajaki (2014). Texturing organic and hardsurface environments for Olympus (2015), 3D generalist work: modelling, layout and environment, as well as helping manage subcontractor texture team. Software used: Mari, Maya, Arnold, Crazy Bump and Nuke.

  • Texture Artist

    Mila Film

    November 2013 - July 2014

    Painting characters and props for ambitious animated short coming out of Disney Animation.

  • 3D Generalist

    Lipsync Post

    March 2014 - April 2014
    London


    Modelling, texturing, lookdev and lighting.

    'A Little Chaos' (2014)
    'Face of an Angel' (2014)

  • Texture Artist

    Framestore

    August 2013 - October 2013
    London, United Kingdom

    Colouring in UV maps. Mostly photo projection work on hardsurface assets.
    'Jupiter Ascending' (2014)

  • Texture Artist

    Reliance MediaWorks

    January 2012 - January 2013
    London

    Colouring in UV maps.
    'Ender's Game' (2013)
    'Dead Man Down' (2013)
    'Battle of the Year' (2013)
    'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' (2013)'
    'The Watch' (2012)
    'Rock of Ages' (2012)

  • European Development Account Manager

    Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

    November 2010 - July 2011
    London, United Kingdom

    Managing all aspects of the digital publishing process for developers in the Nordic region and the Benelux countries; including evangelising new and existing platforms as well as sourcing new developers for the PlayStation platforms; and speaking at conferences on behalf of SCEE and organising local PlayStation developer events in my territories. In addition to this I managed internal projects focused on bringing more MMOs and freemium games to PlayStation platforms.

  • 3rd Party Relations Executive

    Imagination Technologies

    February 2008 - October 2010

    Managed all aspects of our 20,000 members strong developer program; including identifying key 3rd party game developers globally and establishing and maintaining strong working relationships as well as developing partnerships, championing them across the business, working with developer technology support and identifying business opportunities with OEMs and other partners; creating collateral for learning materials and promotion (PR, video, web, articles, newsletters and social media); organising competitions and other events for the community; managing external art teams, for internal development projects; representing Imagination Technologies towards trade bodies, at tradeshows and by speaking at conferences. Under my stewardship the developer program grew from 2,800 members to 20,600.

  • Difficulty, Alpha & Beta Tester

    Various

    April 2002 - September 2007

    Testing for difficulty, bugs and gameplay issues for companies such as Reflections, Ubisoft, EA, Ensemble Studios, Monolith, Sony Online Entertainment, NCSoft, Atari, Blizzard and Relic.

  • Localization Tester

    Testronic

    2007 - 2007
    London, United Kingdom

    Localisation testing on the games Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice (PSP & PS2), Locoroco (PSP), Lair (PS3) and others.

  • Team Leader

    Heroes Team

    April 2004 - August 2005

    The Heroes is a development team consisting of the cream of games students at University of Teesside. We are currently developing our first commercial project, a game for the Raptor arcade platform. I started the outfit, and was the de facto leader, while also engaging in grunt work (texturing, level design, modelling etc.).

  • Texture Artist

    Half Life: Nightwatch Mod Team

    2004 - 2005

    Making different kinds of texture art (props, characters and environments) for the Half Life 2 modification Nightwatch, as well as helping fellow artists with their texturing tasks.

  • Texture Artist

    Stormforge Development

    2003 - 2005

    Making different kinds of texture art (props, characters and environments) for the Half Life 2 add-on Umbra Pax, as well as helping fellow artists with their texturing tasks. Minor modelling tasks.

  • Mentor

    University of Teesside

    June 2003 - July 2004

    Mentoring college and university students to overcome personal and intellectual obstacles and acquire a sense of direction and belief in themselves and their abilities. I won the mentor of the year award 2003/2004.

  • Marketing Associate

    Approximity GmbH

    April 1999 - September 2002

  • Project Manager

    Confex

    January 1998 - February 2000
    Copenhagen Area, Denmark

    Responsible for development and management of a personal portfolio of business conferences. Tasks including project management, editorial research and analysis, writing of reports, correspondence, marketing and conference materials. During the execution of conferences I doubled as moderator. I worked with educating the employees of CONFEX in written communication through lectures and coaching.

  • Senior Investment Advisor

    Copenhagen Investment Group

    1995 - 1996

    Headhunted to C.I.G. All aspects counselling and sales work regarding trading with financial instruments on the European stock indexes and leading bonds. Responsible for a personal portfolio of both private and corporate accounts. Coaching of other Investment Advisors.

  • Investment Advisor

    Krogmann & Partners A/S

    1994 - 1995

    All aspects counselling and sales work regarding trading with financial instruments on the English stock index FTSE. Responsible for a personal portfolio of both private and corporate accounts. Best selling Investment Advisor at K&P. I personally increased company gross sales by 23% over 10 months.

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Education

  • CGWorkshops

    2012 - 2012

  • CGWorkshops

    2011 - 2011

  • CGWorkshops

    2007 - 2007

  • Liverpool John Moores University

    2005 - 2006

  • University of Teesside

    2002 - 2005

  • Eni Oken online course

    2004 - 2004

  • Copenhagen Business School

    1995 - 1995

  • Hillerød Business College

    1991 - 1994