COD: Ghosts Concept Art by Simon Ko | #68
Simon Ko has been working on Call of Duty for a fair amount of years now, having worked on the likes of Black Ops, Advanced Warfare and COD: Ghosts. He has recently worked at Neversoft, Rhythm & Hues and Spark Unlimited throughout his career.
Recently he has been working at Infinity Ward as a Senior Concept Artist for the past two years. Today we have some of the artwork he has created for COD: Ghosts throughout that time spent at Infinity Ward.
Feel free to check out some of Simon Ko’s personal work here.
Designed as a future version of the security variant of today’s Chevy Suburban.
A future take on a security escort SUV equipped with cage and mini-gun.
Vehicles were background actors and used as gameplay cover. Designs were geared to be very conservative, yet still contain ubiquitous technologies and represent proposed vehicle classes in the not-to-distant future.
Concept art created for the development of Extinction DLC
Concept art created for the development of Extinction DLC
Early concept of the oil rig engine room.
A concept for the next generation Juggernaut. Designs included implementation of battery powered exo-suits, impact resistant and healing materials, retractable mini-gun, and ammo drum backpack.
A MBT (Main Battle Tank) design that ended up as the X08 Selva Tigre in Call of Duty: Ghosts. A more traditional track was eventually added for the shipped title.
Concept for a mobile rail gun. The packaging required massive amounts of batteries and structural stability for the massive recoil.
A quickly produced and rejected pitch of a post-apocalyptic Tel Aviv.
Launch seat concept that would lock soldiers in then release and launch them out of the the shuttle bay into combat. Lightweight materials, SAFER jetpack considerations, as well as quick-release oxygen support were key points to this version.
A concept from satellite view of what the aftermath from an ODIN strike would look like.
Key art for the pipe deck. Fire on oil on snow. Fun times.
Atlas Falls – Mud Pumps
End of the Line
Legends Never Die
One of many pages of concepts done for a tactical knife.
Many knife concepts were done for the game since it was suppose to be quite an important storytelling piece. The final game asset was something similar, yet the story importance was reduced just to normal usage.
Key art for the helicopter battle. This mission was an achievement that involved lots of creative thinking as to how to make a train mission technically feasible yet, not seem repetitive.
Concept for a special family heirloom type of knife passed on to through the Walker family. This knife was cut from the game prior to ship
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