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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

Interview: Pavel Sokov

26/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Pavel Sokov is a freelance artist who was self-taught up until he was twenty-four – at that point, he quit his secure job in marketing, instead choosing to move to California to attend the Watts Atelier of the Arts. Within less than a year, he was commissioned to work on a portrait of Vladimir Putin for Time Person of the Year issue. As of the... Read More 08/09/2015

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

In the Studio With David Longdon

15/07/2023 {{total_slide_count}} Our first interview with David Longdon was published in the winter of 2018, and since then, both he and Big Big Train became household names for RVG and its most faithful listeners. Fast-forward two years and you’ll find us all here, having just finished the preparations for the publication of our follow-up interview with David, thereby marking the start of a new decade for Vox... Read More 14/03/2020

Art behind Ori and the Blind Forest

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} That said, I am still surprised by how well everything worked out in the end considering the circumstances. I would have never thought that a project of this scale and complexity would be manageable over the internet... Read More 04/10/2015

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

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

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

Plane Groovy and the Magic of Vinyl

08/02/2022 {{total_slide_count}} In the early 2010s, we began to read about the vinyl revival, and now, in 2018, it looks as though it’s here to stay. But why are we telling you about vinyls? The answer is simple—our team is filled to the brim with vinyl connoisseurs! This is why we’re so excited about our exclusive interview with Chris Topham, a charming gentleman who owns a record... Read More 06/11/2018

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

Anton Fadeev on Bold Colour Palettes and Stupendous Environments

23/03/2018 {{total_slide_count}} This isn’t the first Vox Groovy interview to feature someone who has worked on Duelyst (2016), but Anton Fadeev is the artist who made the game’s art style pop. His bold colour palette and stupendous environments have been around since the start of its Kickstarter campaign on March 9, 2014. Of course, those of you who continue to follow the game’s development know that the... Read More 23/03/2018

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

Romain Jouandeau on Creating Believable Indoor Environments

08/01/2019 {{total_slide_count}} Romain Jouandeau is a French concept artist who’s currently working on Ghost of Tsushima over at Sucker Punch Productions. Admittedly, we didn’t hear anything about the game until Sony’s E3 2018 press conference, but the gameplay reveal showed a visually striking action-adventure game set in 12th century Japan—putting you in the shoes of one of the few samurai that survived the Mongol Empire’s invasion of... Read More 08/01/2019

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

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

Rasmus Berggreen About Running a Studio

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} MOOD is a visual development studio based in Denmark, Copenhagen co-founded by Rasmus Berggreen. The studio is known for the talent it houses, with the likes of Jan Ditlev, Titus Lunter, and Suzanne Helmigh. The team at MOOD strive to bring high-end artworks to their clients whilst working toward a positive work environment for themselves. Read More 18/10/2015

Simon Kopp About the Difference Between Concept Art for Film and Games

23/02/2019 {{total_slide_count}} Simon Kopp is a twenty-nine year old Concept Artist and Illustrator from Heilbad Heiligenstadt, Germany. He is one of the up and coming artists in the games industry, getting his first time in the spotlight back when Airborne Studios first released the concept art for the critically acclaimed Ori and the Blind Forest, and not letting go of it ever since. Kopp has since worked... Read More 07/01/2017

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

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

It’s About What Universe You Want To Build

20/10/2021 {{total_slide_count}} Jean Brice Dugait is a freelance concept artist living in Montpellier, France. Over the years, he has worked on many successful video game series like Assassin’s Creed, Crash Bandicoot, and Rayman. Some of you may remember our last interview with him, which we published in 2016 after his work for Ori and the Blind Forest was first shown. We spent a while discussing that particular... Read More 30/09/2021
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