Leon Tukker: Still Jumping High

06/07/2019 {{total_slide_count}} Leon Tukker is a twenty-five year old freelance artist from the Netherlands. He is currently working from the city of Utrecht, and has recently finished concepting for Starfinder by Paizo Publishing. Alongside that, Tukker is working on a new installment in the System Shock franchise. Together with OtherSide Entertainment, and Warren Spector—a renowned American video-game designer—they’re sure to make a standout title for us in... Read More 31/08/2017

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

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

The Gods Lie (A Vertical Comics Edition)

06/07/2019 {{total_slide_count}} I found a stray copy of The Gods Lie when I was browsing in one of the local bookshops last week. The lovely pastel-coloured cover art caught my eye instantly, which is why I ended up buying it on a whim. This is actually one of the few manga I purchased without having to stay up all night reading various reviews and watching monthly manga... Read More 05/02/2017

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

R&Ding With Riot Games' Geoffrey Ernault

09/12/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Geoffrey Ernault is a French concept artist based in Los Angeles. He’s currently working on R&D for Riot Games, so there’s a good chance we’ll be seeing his ideas come to life in the near future. Of course, this isn’t the first time Geoffrey and his team started from scratch. He was actually R&Ding for Guerrilla Cambridge when the team came up with RIGS: Mechanized... Read More 25/11/2017

How To Paint a Portrait of Your Favourite Game Composer

27/07/2019 {{total_slide_count}} I have a love-hate relationship with tutorials promising the secrets to drawing idyllic flaxen locks, glossy anime eyeballs, or more abstract themes like “how to draw scifi”. It’s well-intentioned that others are trying to get people’s art from point A to point B or build excitement over creating in general, but they will never teach those people how to see. In my experience, drawing is... Read More 20/04/2016

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

Thomas Rohlfs on Artistic Growth, Change and a Willingness to Try

13/04/2019 {{total_slide_count}} Whenever you ask, “what’s the top city for artists to live in?” There will always be a good number of people who’ll default to saying, “Amsterdam”. And there’s a myriad of real reasons for that. After all, the city houses the Van Gogh Museum, Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, and even Guerrilla Games, the AAA studio with one of the game industry’s strongest art departments. It’s... Read More 13/04/2019

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

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

Andreas Rocha on Making the Most of Your Patreon Page

03/09/2018 {{total_slide_count}} Andreas Rocha is a Portuguese environment artist who specializes in fantasy and Sci-Fi. He started out with a degree in architecture, but now he’s working as a freelance concept artist whilst creating exclusive content for his sixty-seven patrons. In the past, Rocha’s painterly style earned him the opportunity to work for world-renowned clients like Fantasy Flight Games, The Mill and Wizards of the Coast. Now,... Read More 03/09/2018

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

Kamila Szutenberg on Building Fantastical Worlds

13/03/2024 {{total_slide_count}} 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... Read More 28/05/2023

Cyberpunk Is yet to Reach Its Zenith

02/02/2023 {{total_slide_count}} The recent influx of cyberpunk works has led a number of people to think that its static vision of hi-tech dystopias must evolve if it means to survive, but this reimagining doesn’t seem like a good idea to fans of the genre. After all, the cautionary tale it offers its audience is only just beginning to be relevant now that a Blade Runner-esque world has... Read More 03/07/2019

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

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

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

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

Yohann Schepacz on What Goes Into Making Commercial Work

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Yohann Schepacz is a French entertainment artist currently living in Montreal, Canada. The artist founded OXAN studio in 2012 alongside his wife, Yan Li, who Schepacz collaborated with for two years prior to setting up the company. Currently he works as an artist and studio manager there. The art studio has been able to work on a variety of different projects such as Deus Ex... Read More 01/02/2016
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