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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

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

Interview With Character Artist Alessandro Baldasseroni

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Alessandro Baldasseroni is a 3-D character artist who was born and raised in Milan, Italy. The artist specializes in character modelling, texturing and shading, and is arguably one of the best in the industry for this kind of thing. Alessandro started off as a CAD operator working for a company before he got into game art with his job as a 3-D generalist at Milestone,... Read More 25/12/2015

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

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

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

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

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

Timothy Rodriguez on Why Personal Art Is Crucial

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Since he was a teenager, Timothy Rodriguez knew he wanted to do digital art. The artist grew up in La Rochelle, France and later moved to Paris where he attended École de communication visuelle - a private design school - before dropping out after one year and starting freelance in the city. He is now an artist with years’ of experience who has worked for... Read More 13/04/2016

Efflam Mercier About the Importance of Uniqueness

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Efflam Mercier is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brest, France, currently working on concept art for film at MPC, as well as doing freelance work on Magic: The Gathering. He specializes in lighting and visual storytelling, using painting, photography and CGI to create stunning artwork. This artist is renowned for his keenness to help other artists better themselves and it’s likely, that some of you... Read More 23/12/2015

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

Florent Lebrun on Painting Your Future the Way You Want It

11/02/2018 {{total_slide_count}} Florent Lebrun is a French concept artist who’s currently working at One Pixel Brush. After moving to Montreal, he chose to transition from matte painting to concept art—a decision he doesn’t regret one bit. When he explained why he made the transition, he said that, “I think that concept art is a lot quicker and more reactive “ As a matte painter, Florent worked at... Read More 11/02/2018

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

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

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

Wendy Tan on the Merging and Clashing of Influences

12/07/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Wendy Tan Shiau Wei is a twenty-two year old freelancer from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She focuses on illustration and storyboarding in her artwork, but she also has a strong background in multimedia design. The illustrations she makes are quite telling, and each and every one of them is overflowing with sincerity and a genuine love for art. Wendy’s personal style is cartoony and light-hearted in... Read More 09/07/2017

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

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

A Little Bit of Exploration With Jakub Javora

07/03/2018 {{total_slide_count}} Jakub Javora is a Czech concept artist with a degree in fine arts. In spite of that, he always wanted to work in concept art, and after working as a matte painter for a couple of years, he built a portfolio and moved to Canada. This was Javora’s first opportunity to work on AAA titles at Volta, a renowned concept art studio that has delivered... Read More 07/03/2018

Christopher Schiefer on the Importance of Advice and Guidance

27/07/2019 {{total_slide_count}} Christopher Schiefer is a young Concept Artist, currently living in Chemnitz, Germany. Surprisingly, Christopher first discovered digital whilst he was working his old job way back in 2012. “I was working as a Graphics Programmer and a Technical Artist before I knew about Digital painting.” He told us. After that, he would go on to spend the next four years creating over a thousand paintings.... Read More 21/01/2017
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