Ryu Oyama (大山竜) was born in Osaka Prefecture on January 22nd, 1977. Osaka is where garage kits all began, and from a young age, Oyama was obsessed with highly detailed figures. He first started sculpting professionally in the late 90s, for companies like I.A. Company and Yume Koubou (夢工房宝島). He would go on to make classic works for Gill Gill and eventually became part of the Kaibutsuya (怪物屋) collective, alongside his brother Kazunori Oyama (大山 和則) and renowned sculptor/painter Yoshio (ヨシオ). Since then his works have appeared from companies like Max Factory, ThreeZero, X-Plus, and more.

He is the head sculptor and supervisor of the Capcom Figure Builder series, designing a majority of the Monster Hunter creatures. Oyama also is the chief designer of the Earth Defense Force series.

This website is a love letter to Ryu Oyama. Since there are no accurate libraries of his work, I decided to make one of my own. Hope you enjoy, and if I missed anything, please let me know!