Interview with concept artist Simon Scales
Simon Scales is an environment concept artist for the video game industry, based in Adelaide. In other words, he’s the guy that does the really cool backgrounds!
Simon’s also illustrated children’s books for over ten years of his career, but now predominantly works on projects for the gaming industry. His process starts with a bit of sketching, then the majority of his work is in Photoshop, and sometimes, Sketchup and After Effects.
When not freelancing at all hours of the day, Simon is running Concept Design Workshop (CDW). At the start of this year, Simon devised CDW to provide another platform of learning for professionals and students in the concept art and illustration industry.
The live workshop environment has been hugely successful with the 2011 event having just wrapped up in Adelaide.
