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Ryan Lesser | |
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Education | Rhode Island School of Design |
Occupation(s) | Art director, creative director |
Ryan Lesser is an American video game and board game designer, musician and graphic artist living in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, he is best known for his design and art direction on influential video games Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Rock Band [1] and The Beatles: Rock Band. [2] [3]
Lesser is an art director at video game developer CD Projekt Red in their American studio The Molasses Flood, faculty at Rhode Island School of Design [4] and Founder of Wild Power Games. [5] From 1999–2018, Lesser served as creative lead and art director at Harmonix. [6] He was a member of the heavy metal band Megasus. In the early- to mid-1990s, Lesser worked [7] with Shepard Fairey on the street art phenomena " Andre the Giant has a Posse" [8] and "Obey," [9] and edited Helen Stickler's video documentary André the Giant Has a Posse and co-created Attention Deficit Disorder [10] with Shepard Fairey. [11]
In 2014, Lesser led a successful Kickstarter campaign [12] for the Harmonix video game Amplitude to ship on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.
Name | Year | Credited with | Publisher |
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Harmonix | |||
Guitar Hero | 2005 | Art director, art lead, designer | Red Octane |
Guitar Hero II | 2006 | Art director, designer | Red Octane |
Rock Band | 2007 | Art director, art lead, designer | Electronic Arts |
Rock Band 2 | 2008 | Art director, designer | MTV Games |
The Beatles: Rock Band | 2009 | Art director | MTV Games |
Amplitude | 2015 | Creative lead | Harmonix |
Rock Band 4 | 2016 | Creative lead | Harmonix |
Lesser is listed as an inventor on the following patents:
Date of patent | Patent number | Title |
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04/23/09 | 8690670 | Systems and methods for simulating a rock band experience [13] |
03/19/09 | 20090075711 | Systems and methods for providing a vocal experience for a player of a rhythm action game [14] |
08/06/02 | 6429863 | Method and apparatus for displaying musical data in a three dimensional environment [15] |
01/01/13 | D673582 | Display screen or portion thereof with boombox icon [16] |
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Ryan Lesser | |
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Education | Rhode Island School of Design |
Occupation(s) | Art director, creative director |
Ryan Lesser is an American video game and board game designer, musician and graphic artist living in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, he is best known for his design and art direction on influential video games Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Rock Band [1] and The Beatles: Rock Band. [2] [3]
Lesser is an art director at video game developer CD Projekt Red in their American studio The Molasses Flood, faculty at Rhode Island School of Design [4] and Founder of Wild Power Games. [5] From 1999–2018, Lesser served as creative lead and art director at Harmonix. [6] He was a member of the heavy metal band Megasus. In the early- to mid-1990s, Lesser worked [7] with Shepard Fairey on the street art phenomena " Andre the Giant has a Posse" [8] and "Obey," [9] and edited Helen Stickler's video documentary André the Giant Has a Posse and co-created Attention Deficit Disorder [10] with Shepard Fairey. [11]
In 2014, Lesser led a successful Kickstarter campaign [12] for the Harmonix video game Amplitude to ship on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.
Name | Year | Credited with | Publisher |
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Harmonix | |||
Guitar Hero | 2005 | Art director, art lead, designer | Red Octane |
Guitar Hero II | 2006 | Art director, designer | Red Octane |
Rock Band | 2007 | Art director, art lead, designer | Electronic Arts |
Rock Band 2 | 2008 | Art director, designer | MTV Games |
The Beatles: Rock Band | 2009 | Art director | MTV Games |
Amplitude | 2015 | Creative lead | Harmonix |
Rock Band 4 | 2016 | Creative lead | Harmonix |
Lesser is listed as an inventor on the following patents:
Date of patent | Patent number | Title |
---|---|---|
04/23/09 | 8690670 | Systems and methods for simulating a rock band experience [13] |
03/19/09 | 20090075711 | Systems and methods for providing a vocal experience for a player of a rhythm action game [14] |
08/06/02 | 6429863 | Method and apparatus for displaying musical data in a three dimensional environment [15] |
01/01/13 | D673582 | Display screen or portion thereof with boombox icon [16] |