Jeff Simpson

Vancouver based Illustrator and Concept/Vis Dev artist for Games, Films and TV. I've been working for 15 years on franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Marvel MCU, Halo, MTG and others. My portfolios can be found on instagram and Cara cara.app/jeffsimpson

My character design course with @UnderpaintAcad is starting THIS SUNDAY, critique spots are full but if you want to follow along LIVE and join the discord, there are tickets available. 8 weeks of lecture, student feedback, demos - every Sunday Link in the bio

@jeffsimpsonkh's new class starts SUNDAY! Innovative Character Visdev will leverage his 15+ years of AAA and Hollywood experience to push your character design to the next level using outside-the-box thinking, tried-and-true design methodology, and 💖chaos💖

@CypressDahlia stop being awesome

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A moment of silence to all your favourite studios and artists that threw human creativity under the bus this year.

@arvalis @CypressDahlia ya

@CypressDahlia You’re too good you need to fuckin quit it. You’re embarrassing the rest of mech artists. Your ideas are too fresh, they’ll kill you for this.

@DannyAraya no no you see it was holding the entire industry back

It's just....Googling reference doesn't take that long so

@NikitaKaun @espenolsenart Yeah, wild! Well, maybe they were in a rush, or a third party made it or something. Still looking forward to seeing what it’s for even if I’m keeping expectations low, just a misdirect for some mobile game or something

@jeffsimpsonkh @espenolsenart Vibes of random 3d assets glued together - you have regular anatomically correct skulls/faces and next to them are highly stylized skulls with different types of eye sockets and proportions

Super generic demon design, probably some west coast fps studio.

Always hungry for a good starfoxlike!

@Agelvik hell yeah buying this asap

Death In Abyss is OUT NOW

@MarcAspinall Nice one!

Speaking of Star Wars, this was good (despite the client’s thoughts otherwise)

I did Frieren meme last night please clap

@CypressDahlia yeah

Some people think it's ugly but I'm a huge fan of the AWAC style rotodome on mechs. If you're looking for something fresh or new to try with mech design, try putting a giant rotodome on it somewhere

@jeffsimpsonkh I'd let her use her inner jaw on my head if you know what I mean. (I'm going to hell for this one.)

Alien sketch - photoshop

I'll be doing a 8 week course, 12 spots for critique/ assignments/mentorship, or you can just watch! Sometime early next year.

Vader - painted in photoshop. Inspired by those amazing Polish and Hungarian posters for the original films

@tostyart Yeah, thanks

I'm really fed up with Wacom pens, been using them for 20 years but I want to be able to make marks with the side of the nib. I know apple pens do this (sort of) but I would like to work on desktop. Am I alone here? What do you guys suggest I try?

@adsk4 Oh! I would like to try that...I had just placed an order for a 500$ new intuos before reading this though - woops! 🫣

@jeffsimpsonkh Hahaha. 😅 This may not be very helpful, but Huion Kamvas is also popular among Japanese digital painters. Seems like the pens are more little bit thin than Wacom's.