Arnaud Simon-Laforest - Art Director / Concept Artist
After my art studies in Lyon, France at Ecole Emile Cohl (1997-2001) , I started working as a concept artist / 3D modeler, specialized in characters and creatures for the company Widescreen Games.
I then became freelance til 2009 to focus on my art skills and got to work with various clients, the main one being Gameloft for which I created various pack illustrations and some character designs.
I then joined the Gameloft Redsteam studio til 2014 as concept artist, then lead concept art and finally art director concept art.
I participated in 100+ mobile projects, from RnD mockups to final art assets for Gameloft's projects, from cartoony casual freemiums to dark realistic mid/hard-core premiums. The level of intervention vary from providing feedback on a few external art assets to managing the production of a full lineup of character and environments in-house over months.
In 2015 I joined Beenox/Activision as Art Director and worked since on Skylanders Superchargers and Call of Duty (Modern Warfare 1 and 2 Remastered, Black Ops 4). It’s one of my most cherished professional experience developing games from such an iconic franchise with such a fun and hard working team.
In 2018 I joined King for a few months before becoming part of Zeptolab from 2019 til February 2026 as Art Director, a dream come true as their games had always been a benchmark in visual quality.
During these 7 years in Zeptolab I got to work on various projects with some of the most talented and dedicated artists I’ve ever met, developing all my skills from art direction/creation to management, implementation and more! I got to ship Overcrowded Tycoon and an upcoming major update for an iconic game from Zeptolab’s catalog!
Skills:
► Art Direction: review, feedback, iterative style development
► Team management and project planning
► 2D art: concept, illustration, paintovers, mock-ups, character and environment design, versatile in styles/themes
► 3D art: low poly modeling and texturing (Maya, Blender)
► Storytelling: camera direction, storyboards
Info
Barcelona, SPAIN
French nationality
asimonlaforest@gmail.com
@ZEPTOLAB
Cut the Rope
Overcrowded Airport (canceled)
Overcrowded Tycoon
Power Machines (canceled)
@KING
Candy Crush Soda Saga
Farm Heroes Saga
@BEENOX/ACTIVISION
Call of Duty Black Ops 4
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Remastered
Call of Duty Modern Warfare Remastered
Skylanders Superchargers
@GAMELOFT
Asphalt Overdrive
Rival knights
Dungeon Gems
Modern Combat 5
The Amazing Spiderman 1&2
Captain America 2
Iron Man 2&3
Thor The Dark World
Epic
The Dark knight Rises
Tank Battles
Heroes of Order & Chaos
Cosmic Colony
NOVA 2&3
Gang Domination
World at Arms
Men in Black 3
Blitz Brigade
Wild Blood
Ice Age Village
Zombiewood
Six guns
The Oregon trail: American Settler
Star Batallion
Silent ops
9mm
Backstab
Order & Chaos online
Sacred odyssey