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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

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

Exploring Irakli Nadar's Unrealistically Realistic Portraits

02/08/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Irakli Nadar is a Georgian digital artist whose main focus is creating hyper-realistic portraits of beautiful models and pop culture icons. As I see it, all of Nadar’s portraits have been successful because all of them have gone viral and brought him thousands of awestruck followers on social media. This artist’s portfolio is a combination of hyper-realism, wonderful lighting, and a set of unique renditions... Read More 12/09/2018

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

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

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

Interview with Senior Character Artist Colin Thomas

14/12/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Colin Thomas is a Character Artist who’s currently based in Los Angeles (US). He’s go more than six year’s worth of experience working as an artist in the entertainment industry, and has worked as a freelancer as well as in-house at various studios. He has contributed high-end models for cinematic trailers as well as in-game use. He has been working at Naughty Dog as a... Read More 03/09/2015

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

Jessica Curry: Rapture’s Music is All about Humanity

06/06/2019 {{total_slide_count}} Jessica Curry is a renowned composer whose name has become synonymous with musical mastery over the course of time. For years, she's been able to compose music that naturally evokes a plethora of unforgettable feelings, memories, and images. As well as that, she's had the opportunity to work as one of the directors of an independent video game developer - The Chinese Room. Without a... Read More 05/11/2015

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

Vadim Shchepilov About the Art of Ori and the Will of the Wisps

18/06/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Vadim Shchepilov was born and raised in Ukraine, which is where he’d spend most of his youth dreaming about becoming a graphic designer while working his day job. Once he learned to use Photoshop, he realized that this kind of software could be used for personal art as well, and like many others, he dived right in. After a couple of years’ worth of practice,... Read More 18/06/2020

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

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

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

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

Johannes Figlhuber: 10 Years With Airborn Studios

15/04/2021 {{total_slide_count}} Five years ago, we spoke with Johannes Figlhuber about his work on Ori and the Blind Forest (2015). Now he’s back on Vox Groovy to catch up with us and tell us more about the decade he’s spent working at Airborn Studios in Berlin. When asked about the company, he said that they specialise in outsourcing, doing things like visual development, concept design, marketing art,... Read More 15/04/2021

Igor Staritsin On the World of Visual Effects

03/07/2023 {{total_slide_count}} Igor Staritsin is a known concept artist and matte painter in the world of visual effects. He started working in the industry back in 2008 for Disney. Since then Igor contributed to over 50 films and video game cinematics, including projects such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Jurassic World and Ant Man. Igor was a part of the VES Award winning team for... Read More 29/05/2023

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

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

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
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