It oozes warmth, family, tradition and fun. That could describe the art of Ryan Goldsberry from Livermore CA. Teaming up with the designer of Burgle Bros, Tim Fowers – was a turning point for Ryan. Enjoy the interview.

 

Tell us a little about yourself, what you do,  your artistic background and how you got into making art for board games?

 

My artistic background mainly involves drawing hundreds of pictures of the Ghostbusters and Mr. T when I was a kid.  Eventually I moved on to drawing other stuff…nothing quite as exciting though. In college I saw that they had animation classes, and I thought, “hey, that sounds nifty!” So I got into animation and worked in video games for around 12 years.  

After college, when I was animating Lara Croft, along with all her assets, I was contacted by my good buddy Tim Fowers.  He assumed that since I was an animator that I could probably draw pictures as well. He said he was making a video game and could I help with the illustration.  I said “sure! Will it make us rich?”

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