This week’s guest is Simon Ko, an artist who has done concept art for the Guitar Hero and Call of Duty franchises.
Originally a concept artist specializing in vehicle design, Simon got picked up to do work with Neversoft on a little known franchise called Guitar Hero. This work with Neversoft merged into a career with Infinity Ward working on the Call of Duty franchises.
Here is the link to the full gallery that got Simon noticed by Neversoft and one of the paintings from the gallery:
In today’s episode we discuss his leap from art school into working in the game industry as well as his plunge into virtual reality with Vrainiac Studio.
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