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A portion of a Game Informer interview with former Electronic Gaming Monthly staff member Shawn Smith…

GI: What can you tell us about yourself, your art/gaming background, etc.
SS: I’ve always been interested in art and design, but of course growing up I read comics, watched cartoons and played video games. I eventually worked my way toward some semblance of adulthood, and worked at EGM for six years or so, some of that time as a game reviewer. I loved it, but it was time to move on in 2000. I went back to college (a move many called crazy), and obtained my art degree in painting. The planets aligned around that time and I started making these weird stuffed animals based on the weird creatures in my sketchbook. A culmination of my various interests in a lot of ways. Fast forward to them becoming Shawnimals, and the business slowly took shape.
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