Simona Hromadová on Freelance

01/04/2016 {{total_slide_count}} Simona Hromadová was born and raised in Veľký Krtíš, a small town in the south of Slovakia. She'd go on to move to London a few years after finishing high school, and she'd live there for thirteen years. Her passion for digital art started there, right after she found out about Adobe's software lineup. Simona graduated in art and graphic design at the Middlesex University... Read More 03/11/2015

Florian Coudray About Working on His Favourite Childhood Game

29/03/2024 {{total_slide_count}} Florian Coudray is a 32-year-old freelance concept artist living in Paris, France. In the past, he’s had the opportunity to work on several successful projects in the games industry, creating concept paintings and helping with the visual development while also delivering various courses online. Some of his most recent projects include: Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and Spyro Reignited Trilogy.... Read More 09/03/2021

Thomas Rohlfs on Artistic Growth, Change and a Willingness to Try

13/04/2019 {{total_slide_count}} Whenever you ask, “what’s the top city for artists to live in?” There will always be a good number of people who’ll default to saying, “Amsterdam”. And there’s a myriad of real reasons for that. After all, the city houses the Van Gogh Museum, Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, and even Guerrilla Games, the AAA studio with one of the game industry’s strongest art departments. It’s... Read More 13/04/2019

Cyberpunk Is yet to Reach Its Zenith

02/02/2023 {{total_slide_count}} The recent influx of cyberpunk works has led a number of people to think that its static vision of hi-tech dystopias must evolve if it means to survive, but this reimagining doesn’t seem like a good idea to fans of the genre. After all, the cautionary tale it offers its audience is only just beginning to be relevant now that a Blade Runner-esque world has... Read More 03/07/2019

Andreas Rocha on Making the Most of Your Patreon Page

03/09/2018 {{total_slide_count}} Andreas Rocha is a Portuguese environment artist who specializes in fantasy and Sci-Fi. He started out with a degree in architecture, but now he’s working as a freelance concept artist whilst creating exclusive content for his sixty-seven patrons. In the past, Rocha’s painterly style earned him the opportunity to work for world-renowned clients like Fantasy Flight Games, The Mill and Wizards of the Coast. Now,... Read More 03/09/2018

The Gods Lie (A Vertical Comics Edition)

06/07/2019 {{total_slide_count}} I found a stray copy of The Gods Lie when I was browsing in one of the local bookshops last week. The lovely pastel-coloured cover art caught my eye instantly, which is why I ended up buying it on a whim. This is actually one of the few manga I purchased without having to stay up all night reading various reviews and watching monthly manga... Read More 05/02/2017

Ryan Gitter about Telling Stories and Creating Worlds

20/05/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Ryan Gitter is a Concept Artist based in Austin, United States of America. He’s employed as a Senior Concept Artist at Certain Affinity, and has worked on several notable projects including Call of Duty: Ghosts, Halo 4, and PlanetSide 2 to name a few. Read More 05/09/2015

Catch-up Interview With Florian Aupetit

12/11/2020 {{total_slide_count}} After our first interview in the summer of 2016, Florian Aupetit’s life would change completely. He had two great job offers lined up in September of that same year. One of them asked him to be an art director on a feature film, and the other was The SPA Studios inviting him to be the lighting supervisor on Klaus (2019). Sadly, even though he loved... Read More 12/11/2020

A Wander in Search of Something New

15/07/2019 {{total_slide_count}} Scrolling through ArtStation’s “picks” section every week since the site’s founding has allowed me to make a number of observations about the entertainment industry and the artists who adorn it with its echoing aesthetic. Today, we only have time to talk about one; it seems that there is only a handful of “trendsetters”. These are the artists who can post a new artwork and watch... Read More 14/07/2019

Ilse Harting on Developing Her Unique Personal Style

21/01/2021 {{total_slide_count}} Ilse Harting is a freelance character artist and illustrator based in the Netherlands. She recently graduated from ArtEZ University of the Arts, so even though she’s rather well known online, her career is only just beginning. Like a lot of artists from Ilse’s generation, she was initially inspired by anime and manga, which made her want to start drawing in that style when she was... Read More 21/01/2021

Jakub Rozalski About His Plans for the Future

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Jakub Rozalski is a Concept Artist and Illustrator from Krakow, Poland. He has a deep interest in history, and a lot of his personal projects are based around important historical events that occurred in the twentieth century. You can see that 1920+ is the most popular project by far. This is because of the amazing world-building that Rozalski worked on for many years now. The... Read More 04/10/2016

Michal Sawtyruk on Painting What You Enjoy

17/08/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Michal Sawtyruk is a digital painter and illustrator based in Warsaw, Poland. His work was recently published in THE BEST POLISH ILLUSTRATORS 2—a hefty art-book that features some of Poland’s best contemporary artists. A few well-renowned ones have already been featured on Vox Groovy. But today’s interview is with someone whose work we absolutely love! Sawtyruk has a wonderful collection of personal artworks on ArtStation,... Read More 11/12/2017

From Hobbyist to Professional: An Interview With Piotr Jabłoński

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Piotr Jabłoński is a self-taught freelance artist based in Białystok, Poland. At first, he was interested in graffiti and street art, but after that he found out about digital art and was infatuated by it. Having attended the Technical University of Białystok, where he studied Architecture and Urbanism, he chose instead to move onto something else and pursue a career in the visual arts. Now,... Read More 13/09/2015

Ori and the Blind Forest’s Soundtrack

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Gareth Coker is a Los Angeles-based composer who received his education at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, studying both composition and film scoring respectively. Having visited and or lived in different countries, Gareth has been influenced by many cultures which have found their place in his music. Since he moved to Los Angeles... Read More 29/09/2015

Kamila Szutenberg on Building Fantastical Worlds

13/03/2024 {{total_slide_count}} Kamila Szutenberg is a Polish freelance concept artist currently living in Germany. In the past, she had the opportunity to work with studios such as Warner Bros., Wizards of the Coasts, PUBG, Bethesda and many others. When we interviewed her, she said that “I completely fell in love with creating worlds.” Concept art is an essential part of worldbuilding, be it for a book, movie... Read More 28/05/2023

Winona Nelson on Sharing the Ojibwe Tribe's Stories Through Art

04/08/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Winona Nelson grew up in Duluth, Minnesota—a place where she’d spend the better part of her early life drawing and painting before moving away to study classical realism and art for the entertainment industry at the Safehouse Atelier in San Francisco. After that, Winona found herself working at both Flagship studios and Planet Moon Studios, giving her the experience she needed to become a successful... Read More 04/08/2020

The Art of Natalie Kayurova

09/05/2021 {{total_slide_count}} Natalie Kayurova is a twenty-seven-year-old artist from Kamchatka–a 1,250-kilometre-long peninsula in the Russian Far East, also known as an "artist from the far corners of the Earth." Here, she grew up among brown bears, breathtaking nature, and fiery volcanoes. While studying painting, she worked with traditional materials like oils, pastels, and sketching pencils. The games industry came into Natalie's life right alongside computer graphics, which... Read More 25/08/2020

Purity of Concept and Purity of Art Is the Most Important Thing

16/12/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Whether it’s his collaboration with astronaut Tim Peake and the ESA or his most recent project with Sir David Attenborough, Ilan chooses projects that deliver powerful messages and impactful stories, all of which are highly relevant today. He is a bastion of true artistry, always prioritizing the vision that he and his team set out to realize. The choices he makes when selecting projects are... Read More 15/12/2020

Quy Ho on His Humble Beginnings and Work at Riot Games

24/09/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Quy Ho’s journey to becoming a concept artist wasn’t easy. Conflicting ideas and inner voices pushed this aspiration aside for a long, long time. But despite that, once he realized that nothing else is as important and that he will eventually find himself doodling in his sketchbook anyway, he came to a decision and pursued a career in entertainment art. In the beginning, he barely... Read More 24/09/2020

Matt Rhodes on the Importance of Visual Storytelling

30/06/2019 {{total_slide_count}} It’s not every day that I get to meet an artist who has worked for a developer for more than a decade, but as it turns out, Matt Rhodes was already working as an intern for BioWare in the latter half of the 2000s, toiling away to bring Jade Empire to your Xbox. The then intern was given the opportunity to work on the first... Read More 24/10/2018
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