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I’m a twenty-two year old artist with a keen interest in a wide range of creative fields. I’ve gone from working in digital 2D to exploring 3D a whole lot. I guess it’s mostly because of my interest in the future of 3DCG cinematics.
I mean, if GPU rendering technology continues to progress, you’ll start seeing indie developers who are wanting to make a cinematic, too. This is why I don’t want to be a 2D-centric artist, I want to be more like Ash Thorp – he’s someone I like to think of as a true all-rounder. Now, this might make it difficult to categorize what I do, but you won’t see me fretting about it. I will always be inspired. So long as I can keep looking to Blur Studio, Digic Pictures and Square Enix to remind myself of what can people have achieved in this industry.
Question: Why Do We Follow Trends?
I want to ask something about trends. It seems rather prevalent for aspiring artists to follow styles and trends too closely.
I’ve seen a lot of stuff that looks just like Naughty Dog, Vitaly Bulgarov and so on. I’m wondering if this is stifling creativity in our field, or if it’s actually a good thing to follow these popular trends so closely.
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Tom Harrison
Tom Harrison is a Scottish composer currently based in London. He has composed scores for over 200 different television series including Saturday Night Live, The Today Show, The Voice, NFL Football, WWE: Raw and many others.
He has worked extensively as a songwriter and a musical director. Tom was the musical director, guitarist and pianist for a production of Green Day’s American Idiot: The Musical in North Hollywood, a USA tour with Damian McGinty (Glee) and a tour of China with Nashville-based country singer Jackson Wells. He co-wrote two original songs with Damian McGinty on his #2 Billboard Holiday album This Christmas Time.
Tom is currently Lecturer in Composition for Screen at BIMM University London. He is an active voting member and judge for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (EMMYs), a professional member of BAFTA Los Angeles.
He is the author of book “How to Become a Film Composer” which was published globally by Centerstream and Hal Leonard in 2018. This book is a great resource for anyone interested in a career making music for TV and film.
During our time together he told us about his work on CSI (the 7th longest in US drama history) with composer John M. Keane and how working on that particular show helped him to grow, also about his joys in teaching others and the motivations and influences that affect his work.
“Make sure you work on the craft. Things like music literacy, music theory knowledge. I’m real advocate for that. Engage with those topics.”
With that said, we hope that you will enjoy this new interview where we talk with Tom about his composing journey, what he has accomplished, and what he plans to do next!
Web version of the interview will be available on Vox Groovy
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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. Florian is a lot like us in a way, he grew up enjoying the old PlayStation games and it eventually led him here. When we asked him about his time with Crash, he said that…
Kamila Szutenberg is a Polish freelance concept artist currently living in Germany. In the past, she had the opportunity to work with studios such as Warner Bros., Wizards of the Coasts, PUBG, Bethesda and many others. When we interviewed her, she said that “I completely fell in love with creating worlds.” Concept art is an essential part of worldbuilding, be it for a book, movie or video game. By creating environments, characters and objects that blend seamlessly together, Kamila’s art is a beautiful invitation to explore…
