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Gabriel Gomez: From Watching Animated Films To Creating Them

22/03/2021 {{total_slide_count}} Gabriel Gomez grew up during the so-called “Disney Renaissance,” with films like Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and Tarzan as his first major influences. He would later discover Japanese anime, which meant seeing Hayao Miyazaki’s unparalleled artistry for the first time in his life. In this industry, watching a Studio Ghibli film is almost like a rite of passage. It is the ultimate... Read More 15/11/2020

Grace Liu on the Art Behind Uniquely Stylized Games

23/08/2018 {{total_slide_count}} The new Battle Chasers: Night War (2017) is a unique RPG game that needs its artists to work in a very specific art style—an art style like Grace Liu’s. It’s no surprise that hand-painted low-poly 3D will always feel at home in a stylized game, and that’s why the vast majority of you might have seen Liu’s work in games like Diablo III (2012) and... Read More 25/07/2018

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

Even Amundsen on Becoming a Master of Your Craft

18/03/2016 {{total_slide_count}} Even Mehl Amundsen is a far–traveled fantasy artist from Stabekk, Norway. Currently, he is living in Denmark. He has worked for Blizzard Entertainment, Games Workshop and other reputable companies in the past. This artist’s career started in Quebec, Canada, where he worked for VOLTA, a studio that is well known in the entertainment industry. This is where Even spent three years learning the ropes of... Read More 16/03/2016

Greg Rutkowski on Rethinking His Approach to Art

31/08/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Greg Rutkowski has been our friend for five years now, but he’s been a friend to the online art community for much longer. This is why we’ve decided to invite him back for a catch-up interview on Vox Groovy this month. After all, many things have changed. He’s now a father to two daughters, he has a completely new outlook on art and life, and... Read More 16/04/2020

Concept Art Culture with James Combridge

22/10/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Becoming a successful concept artist in this day and age is tough. You have to spend countless hours creating portfolio artwork whilst growing your social media presence in order to build your professional network. And like most of our dreams, it will seem impossible at first. This is why we interviewed James Combridge, an Australian Concept Artist from Newcastle. James loves creating worlds, telling stories... Read More 22/08/2016

Stella Chen Yui: Art Is Not a Competition

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Stella Chen Yui is an illustrator from Taiwan, currently living in Taichung and using the pen name of Stellarism. She is completely self-taught and is majoring in Japanese language this year. Of course, you may have already seen Stella’s artworks around if you are a fan of anime and manga since she’s one of the more popular artists in that Internet community. However, she also... Read More 27/12/2016

Will Santa Claus Bring Traditional Animation Back?

12/07/2017 {{total_slide_count}} The SPA Studios is planning to bring traditional 2D animation back with Klaus, an animated feature film by Sergio Pablos. It’s important to note that Pixar and DreamWorks Animation have been dominating the animation industry with computer animation as opposed to hand-drawing the frames like Klaus, so this is an interesting development for this industry. Szymon Biernacki is one of two art directors—working alongside Marcin... Read More 15/06/2017

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

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

Zac Retz: The Nobility of Hard Work Brings Us Higher

22/03/2021 {{total_slide_count}} “Could we get much higher? Could we get much lighter?” We are a radio too, meaning we put the music on the pedestal right next to the stories we publish. Listening to “In high Places” sung by John Roy Anderson while reading through this interview clicked! We have just read that we can. Zac Retz is an artist who truly lives for his art, and... Read More 17/08/2020

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

Feelings of Sincerity with Jonathan Vair Duncan

23/05/2016 {{total_slide_count}} What is attractive and accessible to the public eye will be a society's natural inclination, so I'm certain strong influence from media is still as present as ever. The most important thing an artist can do about this is question where ideas came from and where they're going. Syd Mead, for example, creates timeless futurist concepts that affect how most artists today romanticize the future. Read More 12/11/2015

Henrik Evensen: I couldn’t Sleep One Night

03/09/2021 {{total_slide_count}} Henrik Evensen is a twenty-six year old Digital Artist from Norway. He is currently working at Storyline Studios, a small post-production company that does work on local live-action films, TV series and commercials. Evensen is given lots of different tasks over at Storyline and he’s become a very versatile artist because of it. He says: “I’m a generalist, doing anything from concept-art and matte painting... Read More 14/08/2016

Crystal Kung About Colors and Feelings

26/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Crystal Kung started to draw when she was a child. She was born in Xi’an, China, but was raised in Taipei, Taiwan, where she moved at the age of five. As a young girl, Crystal enjoyed reading art books. During the high school years, drawing became more important to her, and she focused on illustration. After all, high school was the place where she picked... Read More 12/10/2015

Florian Aupetit: Father & Son no Longer Just a Pipe Dream

09/06/2019 {{total_slide_count}} Florian Aupetit is an Art Director and 3-D Generalist from Paris, France. Currently, he works at a small design and production studio named Monsieur K where he hopes to learn more about CGI to help him realize his dream of creating an animated short. In the interview, he tells us that Father & Son is a personal project he has been developing in his spare... Read More 06/07/2016

Katia Bourykina about Her Personal Style

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Yekaterina Bourykina is a 3-D character artist from Russia who currently lives in Woodland Hills, California together with her boyfriend, Geoffrey Ernault. After she graduated at the Art Institute of Dallas, she went on to work for Picture Plane Imaging where she gained confidence as an artist before leaving to work for Blizzard Entertainment. Read More 20/12/2015

Exclusive: Hunting Down 'Ah-Ha!' Moments With John Grello

27/07/2019 {{total_slide_count}} John Grello is currently living in Georgia, United States, where he works as a concept artist at Tripwire Interactive. He is a very good all-rounder, and it’s clear that he enjoys experimenting with new workflows in his spare time. John’s ArtStation is one of the few professional portfolios where you can see a continuous drive to improve. In the interview, he says, “I continue to... Read More 05/02/2018

He Always Wanted to Be an Illustrator

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Stavros Damos was born in Thessaloniki, where he studied graphic design at the AAS College of Art & Design. Stavros specializes in illustration, and has been developing a recognizable style since he was in high school. His clients are primarily advertising agencies, publishing houses and magazines. In his spare time, he continues to find new ways of working which helps him to further distinguish from... Read More 10/10/2015

Eyal Goldstein on Wonderful World of Music

30/11/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Our writing about the world of visual arts allowed us to interview so many amazing artists, but this time, we thought that we ought to invite a handful of musical composers to share their stories, too. One of the first people we chose was Eyal Goldstein, a freelance music composer for films, documentaries, games and more. For the last 8 years, he’s been producing original... Read More 29/11/2020
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