This week's podcast takes a left turn or two as Lindsay, Francesca, Chris, and Jenny have a series of on-air personal crises and revelations. We discuss the importance of incubation, thinking on projects, online identity, patience, perseverance, and live Tarot readings.

Microsoft Studios Associate Production Designer Claire Hummel and Associate Art Director Colin Foran visited Minneapolis this week to host our weekend workshop dedicated to world building in video games. To kick off the event, we hosted a public artist talk where Claire and Colin spoke about how they approach the challenging work of visual development for triple-A video games, what it's like to work on a high-caliber team of talent like Microsoft Studios, where they started as artists, and how they got to where they are now. And of course, lots, lots more. Claire and Colin are incredibly talented and knowledgeable (and super nice, too!) so we thought it would be a great conversation to share on the podcast!

It's Halloween! Boo! With the Rolemodels opening reception in the rearview, Chris, Lindsay, Jenny and Francesca kick back and chat about the spookiest day of the year (Halloween). We talk about the best costumes, how to shoot low-budget horror films, our deepest, darkest fears and lots more.

The Rolemodels exhibition opens this Friday, and The Battle For Vyk'Tornaahl decks are in our hands and ready to ship (which you can order from http://shop.lightgreyartlab.com)! On this week's podcast, Lindsay, Jenny, Francesca and Chris talk about the genesis of the Rolemodels project, why your character choices might reflect something about yourself, and how went about the daunting task of designing a brand new card game from the ground up.

This month's Nights & Weekends exhibit features several gorgeous books, zines and comics from a variety of artists. On this week's podcast, we talk to Nights & Weekends artists Evan Palmer, Anna Bongiovanni, Sebastian Koch and Sandra Brandstätter. Each has experience creating small press books in a variety of formats. We talk with them about self publishing, working collaboratively, or not so collaboratively, with other creatives, what it takes to hit a deadline and plenty more.

This month's Nights & Weekends exhibit is all about the talent and dedication of 13 amazing artists making big, long-term projects happen in their off-hours and free time. On this week's podcast, we talk to Nights & Weekends artists Jesse Lindhorst, Genevieve FT, and Paul Patterson and combine their interviews into one big discussion about their approach to creating, how and why they decided to undertake these large scale projects, their creative networks and mentors and much, much more.

Today's podcast was inspired by a lecture from Arctic explorer and environmentalist Will Steger, who has devoted every facet of his life to a very focused and noble vision. Lindsay, Jenny, Chris, and Francesca talk about sacrifice, working in small teams for big results, creating and planning with the long-term in mind, and lots more.

On this week's podcast we talk to prolific artist and all-around-great-guy Campbell Whyte. Campbell's massive 8-Bit Dreams series is on display in this month's Nights & Weekends exhibit, and he traveled all the way from Australia to join us for the opening and to lead All-Night with Campbell Whyte, an all-night comic workshop. Campbell is no stranger to incredible, large-scale projects and we talk to him about where his ideas come from, how he manages to stays motivated and get so much accomplished, and much much more.

Inspired by a visit to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, Chris, Jenny, Lindsay and Francesca talk about finding a balance of doing what you love (even if it's niche) and finding an audience. Whether it's making chainmail armor or puppeteering, there's probably a place for everyone. However, finding that place isn't always easy, but it might be worth it.

This week we talk to Victor Mosquera, an incredibly talented video game concept artist who has shown work in the Macro + Micro and In Place exhibits. But first, Jenny, Chris, Francesca and Lindsay share their thoughts about last week's Create, Concept and Collaborate workshop hosted by Mike Yamada and Victoria Ying. In the second half of the podcast, we talk to Victor about his experience as a concept artist, his roots in traditional media, how he got started in the industry, the importance of reference and life drawing and lots, lots more.