Ultimate Mark  
   

Mark Simmons is a 2009 graduate of the Academy of Art University. He specializes in illustration and sequential art, including comics and storyboards.

email: toysdream@gmail.com
blog: toysdream.blogspot.com
tumblr: toysdream.tumblr.com

 

Selected Publications & Illustration Clients

Madefire (2016)
Full-color motion comic art for "App Review Guidelines: The Comic Book," released by Apple at the 2016 Worldwide Developers Conference.

Rebellion (2012-2016)
Grayscale art for "Other People's Machines" by David Baillie and assorted "Robo-Hunter" adventures by Alec Worley, published in 2000 AD comic anthology.

Know Yourself (2015)
Full-color comic art for educational publishing startup.

Capstone Publishers (2014)
Full-color comic art for the Nickolas Flux History Chronicles series.

R.Talsorian Games (2013-2014)
Robot character designs and illustrations for "Mekton" role-playing game.

1A Games (2013-2014)
Coloring and retouching of illustrations for "Tide of Iron" board game, plus cover artwork and illustrations for various upcoming games, magazine, and historical sourcebooks.

Opera Parallèle (2013-2014)
Color artwork and cover illustrations for the motion comic "Gesualdo, Prince of Madness." Set and concept designs for various stage productions.

Artxit, Inc (2012-2013)
Designing and rendering environments, characters, costumes, promotional banners, and user interface elements for custom cartoon service.

Galaxy Pest Control (2012-2013)
Making Fun (2011)
Full-color comic art for "Santa's Village," "Run Monkey Run," "Get Rocky," and other iPad games in development.

Unicorn Studios (2010-2012)
Marza Animation Planet (2011-2012)
Storyboards and pre-production materials for animated feature films.

Archaia Studios (2010)
Full-color art for Fraggle Rock comic anthology.

Marvel Comics (2010)
Script for comic story.

Present Creative (2010)
Illustrations for Facebook social games.

Jones, Partners: Architecture (2009-2011)
Figure illustrations for architectural presentations.

Siren Comic Collection (2009)
Contributed 13-page story to comic anthology.

 

Other Work Experience

Instructor (02/2010 to date)
Academy of Art University
Teaching illustration, figure drawing, perspective, comic book, and character design classes for college and pre-college students.

Script Consultant (12/2001 to date)
Bandai Entertainment, Bandai Channel, and Sunrise Inc.
Assisting with adaptation of Japanese cartoons for North American audience. Tasks include editing scripts, story research, writing promotional text and toy packaging, and Web site content.

Web Developer (11/1999-10/2000)
IGN Entertainment, Brisbane, CA
Maintained lifestyle and entertainment Web sites for Snowball.com network. Created HTML pages based on designers' templates, wrote simple JavaScript and Perl programs, managed SQL databases and created active pages using JSP.