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Edouard Caplain on the Art Behind Life Is Strange

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Edouard Caplain is an entertainment artist from Paris, France. He has worked on Life Is Strange from start to finish and also provided artworks for several other titles such as Alien: Isolation in the past. Caplain has been involved in the visual development of the studio’s second game for three years, as one of the main concept artists at DONTNOD Entertainment, he influenced the aesthetics... Read More 09/02/2016

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

The Sound of Hades

12/12/2025 {{total_slide_count}} Supergiant Games is the studio behind some of our favourite games here at Vox Groovy. Ever since Transistor (2014) blew our minds with its beautiful aesthetic and unique setting, we’ve been looking forward to each new Supergiant game with great anticipation. After Pyre (2017) showed up on Steam, we noticed how the exiles’ stories are taken so much further through songs and the lyrics that... Read More 04/12/2020

Stella Chen Yui: Art Is Not a Competition

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Stella Chen Yui is an illustrator from Taiwan, currently living in Taichung and using the pen name of Stellarism. She is completely self-taught and is majoring in Japanese language this year. Of course, you may have already seen Stella’s artworks around if you are a fan of anime and manga since she’s one of the more popular artists in that Internet community. However, she also... Read More 27/12/2016

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

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

Simona Hromadová on Freelance

01/04/2016 {{total_slide_count}} Simona Hromadová was born and raised in Veľký Krtíš, a small town in the south of Slovakia. She'd go on to move to London a few years after finishing high school, and she'd live there for thirteen years. Her passion for digital art started there, right after she found out about Adobe's software lineup. Simona graduated in art and graphic design at the Middlesex University... Read More 03/11/2015

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

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

Ryan Gitter about Telling Stories and Creating Worlds

20/05/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Ryan Gitter is a Concept Artist based in Austin, United States of America. He’s employed as a Senior Concept Artist at Certain Affinity, and has worked on several notable projects including Call of Duty: Ghosts, Halo 4, and PlanetSide 2 to name a few. Read More 05/09/2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Does It Take To Be a Successful Concept Artist?

05/11/2020 {{total_slide_count}} Jourdan Tuffan is a senior concept artist at Atomhawk Design over in Newcastle. Originally from Jakarta, Indonesia, he moved to England in 2017 and has since been hard at work improving both, his art and professionalism. During our interview, we found that he’s incredibly passionate about teaching, and you can often find him sharing valuable knowledge on his Twitch channel or on The Drawing Table... Read More 05/11/2020

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

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
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