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Character Modeling with Adam Fisher

10/08/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Adam Fisher is a freelance character artist based in Perth, Australia. He is currently working on the Total War: Warhammer franchise, so you’ll have the opportunity to learn a little bit about his experiences at the Creative Assembly. Alongside that, he will walk you through the making of both his new piece—the “Vampire Noble”—and the Prime 1 Alita statue. Having worked with clients like Arkane... Read More 08/08/2020

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

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

Katia Bourykina about Her Personal Style

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Yekaterina Bourykina is a 3-D character artist from Russia who currently lives in Woodland Hills, California together with her boyfriend, Geoffrey Ernault. After she graduated at the Art Institute of Dallas, she went on to work for Picture Plane Imaging where she gained confidence as an artist before leaving to work for Blizzard Entertainment. Read More 20/12/2015

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

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

Winona Nelson on Sharing the Ojibwe Tribe's Stories Through Art

04/08/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Winona Nelson grew up in Duluth, Minnesota—a place where she’d spend the better part of her early life drawing and painting before moving away to study classical realism and art for the entertainment industry at the Safehouse Atelier in San Francisco. After that, Winona found herself working at both Flagship studios and Planet Moon Studios, giving her the experience she needed to become a successful... Read More 04/08/2020

David Longdon on Soundtracks of Our Lives

15/09/2020 {{total_slide_count}} David Longdon is the lead vocalist and co-songwriter for Big Big Train—a British prog-rock band that’s been on the rise since its revitalization. It’s interesting to note that its newfound success came about as a result of the changes that were made in 2009. Of course, the band has been around since the 1990s, but its current roster is very different to what it was... Read More 05/01/2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

Into the Black with CMDR Dr. Kaii

29/07/2019 {{total_slide_count}} In 3302, the Elite: Dangerous community undertook its first major expedition—Distant Worlds. Together with the help of a great many volunteers, CMDR Erimus and CMDR Dr. Kaii were able to synchronize over a thousand ships and launch a voyage that would change the game’s community forever. Now, in 3305, a follow-up called Distant Worlds II is being planned. Set to launch on the 13th of... Read More 11/01/2019

The Art of Natalie Kayurova

09/05/2021 {{total_slide_count}} Natalie Kayurova is a twenty-seven-year-old artist from Kamchatka–a 1,250-kilometre-long peninsula in the Russian Far East, also known as an "artist from the far corners of the Earth." Here, she grew up among brown bears, breathtaking nature, and fiery volcanoes. While studying painting, she worked with traditional materials like oils, pastels, and sketching pencils. The games industry came into Natalie's life right alongside computer graphics, which... Read More 25/08/2020

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

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

Darek Zabrocki on Changing Medium

26/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Darek Zabrocki is a Polish freelance concept artist and illustrator living in Gdańsk, Poland. Over the past few years, he’s worked for a good deal of reputable companies such as Blur Studio, Framestore, and Ubisoft. Zabrocki made the transition from hobbyist to professional in 2007, when he decided to try working in the digital medium. As an artist, he continues to explore different software and... Read More 01/11/2015

Ilse Harting on Developing Her Unique Personal Style

21/01/2021 {{total_slide_count}} Ilse Harting is a freelance character artist and illustrator based in the Netherlands. She recently graduated from ArtEZ University of the Arts, so even though she’s rather well known online, her career is only just beginning. Like a lot of artists from Ilse’s generation, she was initially inspired by anime and manga, which made her want to start drawing in that style when she was... Read More 21/01/2021
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