Background
Griffon Ramsey grew up in Oregon and was inspired by the carvings she saw as a child, including those of her grandfather.
Griffon Ramsey grew up in Oregon and was inspired by the carvings she saw as a child, including those of her grandfather.
She graduated summa cum laude in 2008 from Texas State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre and began chain-saw sculpting in 2011.
Several of her YouTube videos have attracted attention online, including her sculpting an Eastern red cedar into Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy, which accumulated over 115,000 views in three days. Her channel currently has over 3,000,000 video views and 75,000 subscribers. Prior to wood sculpting, Ramsey designed and painted playground markings at elementary schools in the Austin Independent School District in order to promote active learning.
The project was done in collaboration with Burl Norville and the University of Texas School of Public Health to, "utilize playground stencils to encourage physical activity."
She announced her departure from the company in October 2011.
In 2013, she was the Production Designer on the indie film Grow Up, Tony Phillips.
Ramsey worked for several years at Rooster Teeth Productions, during which time she created the video series Pajamachievements for Achievement Hunter, wrote and co-created Rooster Teeth Comics with artist Luke McKay, oversaw production design work and acted on series such as Immersion and Reality Therapy Shorts and was a frequent guest on The Rooster Teeth Podcast.
