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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

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

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

The Artist's Roundtable: Why Do We Follow Trends?

15/09/2020 {{total_slide_count}} A new type of article? One that gives aspiring artists an opportunity to have their questions answered by hardened industry professionals like Even Amundsen, Grzegorz Rutkowski and Yohann Schepacz. If you’re a beginner who wants to learn more about the art world, you can now send us art-related questions on the contact page anytime you want. Read More 10/11/2017

Gregory Fromenteau's Thirteen Years With Ubisoft

09/05/2021 {{total_slide_count}} Gregory Fromenteau is an Art Director and Illustrator currently working on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (2015) at Ubisoft Montreal. He’s been with the company for over thirteen years now, and he’s had the opportunity to create concepts for fan favourites like Assassin’s Creed and Prince of Persia during that time. He recalls how this was back when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were both... Read More 08/05/2021

Kael Ngu and the Malaysian Art Scene

15/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} The Malaysian art scene often goes unnoticed in the art community. After all, there’s only a handful of names that we all know and love. Incidentally, we have interviewed Puppeteer Lee in the past, but we didn’t get a chance to ask him what it’s like to be an artist in his home country. This is why we interviewed Kael Ngu, a Concept Artist from... Read More 15/04/2017

Discovering Abstract Art With Gaya Karapetyan

25/10/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Our new interview with Gaya Karapetyan is the first time Vox Groovy ever approached abstract art. This time, we’ll be moving away from the world of AAA games, art directors, and tight deadlines, and more towards a freer place where people express their feelings and experiences through wondrous combinations of flowing colour and shape. Earlier on in the year, we spoke about the art of... Read More 24/10/2020

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

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

Even Amundsen on Reinventing Elements of Fantasy

13/06/2018 {{total_slide_count}} Some of you may remember our 2016 interview with Even Mehl Amundsen, and we hope that you’re as excited to catch up with him as we are! For those of you who don’t know, Even is a Norwegian concept artist who specializes in fantasy art. In the past, he has lived in Canada, Czech republic, Norway and the UK, and he has had the opportunity... Read More 11/06/2018

Interview: Jorgen Grotdal

22/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Jorgen Grotdal is an eighteen year old self-taught graphic designer based in Trondheim, Norway. He specializes in branding, typography and icon design, and has been working as a freelancer for the past five years. Two years back, he established the Ligature Collective; an art collective focused on vintage and modern typography. The art collective is a notable one as it encompasses a lot of renown... Read More 12/07/2015

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

Sasha Beliaev about Digital Graphic and Fate Of Traditional Art

14/09/2018 {{total_slide_count}} The society’s attitudes toward art have changed a great deal, especially after the tradition had been thoroughly dismantled around the mid 60s. In a way, the arts have lost their original purpose, before, they were a means of reconciliation with our finite existence, ceding place to clever manipulation and epatage, retaining nothing but superficial features. Read More 29/08/2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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