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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

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

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

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

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

Crystal Kung About Colors and Feelings

26/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Crystal Kung started to draw when she was a child. She was born in Xi’an, China, but was raised in Taipei, Taiwan, where she moved at the age of five. As a young girl, Crystal enjoyed reading art books. During the high school years, drawing became more important to her, and she focused on illustration. After all, high school was the place where she picked... Read More 12/10/2015

Florian Aupetit: Father & Son no Longer Just a Pipe Dream

09/06/2019 {{total_slide_count}} Florian Aupetit is an Art Director and 3-D Generalist from Paris, France. Currently, he works at a small design and production studio named Monsieur K where he hopes to learn more about CGI to help him realize his dream of creating an animated short. In the interview, he tells us that Father & Son is a personal project he has been developing in his spare... Read More 06/07/2016

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

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

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

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

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

He Always Wanted to Be an Illustrator

25/04/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Stavros Damos was born in Thessaloniki, where he studied graphic design at the AAS College of Art & Design. Stavros specializes in illustration, and has been developing a recognizable style since he was in high school. His clients are primarily advertising agencies, publishing houses and magazines. In his spare time, he continues to find new ways of working which helps him to further distinguish from... Read More 10/10/2015

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

Henrik Evensen: I couldn’t Sleep One Night

03/09/2021 {{total_slide_count}} Henrik Evensen is a twenty-six year old Digital Artist from Norway. He is currently working at Storyline Studios, a small post-production company that does work on local live-action films, TV series and commercials. Evensen is given lots of different tasks over at Storyline and he’s become a very versatile artist because of it. He says: “I’m a generalist, doing anything from concept-art and matte painting... Read More 14/08/2016

Interview with Senior Character Artist Colin Thomas

14/12/2017 {{total_slide_count}} Colin Thomas is a Character Artist who’s currently based in Los Angeles (US). He’s go more than six year’s worth of experience working as an artist in the entertainment industry, and has worked as a freelancer as well as in-house at various studios. He has contributed high-end models for cinematic trailers as well as in-game use. He has been working at Naughty Dog as a... Read More 03/09/2015

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

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

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

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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