Ryan Church (concept artist)
Ryan Church (born July 18, 1971 in Long Beach, California) is an American concept designer best known for his designs of vehicles, planets, and architectures as a concept design supervisor on George Lucas's Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, and of the tripods in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds.[1][2]
Ryan Church | |
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| Born | July 18, 1971 Long Beach, California, U.S. |
| Education | Art Center College of Design (B.S.) University of California, Los Angeles (B.A.) |
| Occupation(s) | Concept designer, industrial designer |
| Years active | 1998 - present |
| Website | www.ryanchurch.com |
He worked on James Cameron's Avatar (2009) and is responsible for the updated design of the USS Enterprise in J. J. Abrams's Star Trek films [2][3] as well as the design of the Stealth Helicopters in Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and the Ship of the Imagination in Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014) presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Church returned to the Star Wars franchise in 2013 as a concept artist for The Force Awakens, Rogue One and The Rise of Skywalker. He is also a concept supervisor on the television series The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka.
Church graduated with honors in Transportation Design with emphasis on Entertainment Design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Filmography
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) (concept design supervisor)
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) (concept design supervisor)
- War of the Worlds (2005) (creature designer)
- Transformers (2007) (concept artist)
- Outlander (2008) (concept artist)
- Star Trek (2009) (concept designer)
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) (concept artist)
- Avatar (2009) (concept artist)
- Super 8 (2011) (concept artist)
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) (concept artist)
- John Carter (2012) (concept artist / visual effects art director)
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012) (concept designer)
- Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) (concept designer)
- Godzilla (2014) (concept artist)
- Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014) (designer: Ship of the Imagination)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) (visual effects art director)
- Tomorrowland (2015) (concept artist)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) (concept artist)
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) (concept artist)
- Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) (visual effects art director)
- The Mandalorian (2019-2022) (concept supervisor)
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) (concept artist)
- The Book of Boba Fett (2021) (concept supervisor)
- Pinocchio (2022) (concept artist)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022) (concept artist)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) (concept supervisor)
- Ahsoka (2023) (concept supervisor)
Video games
- The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II (2006) (cinematic painter)
- Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (2007) (concept artist)
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (2008) (additional art)
- Dead Space (2008) (concept artist: art)
- Star Citizen (TBA): (concept artist)
References
- Church, Ryan (13 July 2005). "Otherworldly Concept Designs of Ryan Church". Animation World Network (Interview). Interviewed by Ellen Wolff. Archived from the original on 12 January 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- Anders, Charlie Jane (10 June 2008). "Ryan Church, Master Of Creatures And Robots". io9. Design Geniuses: 10 Hollywood Designers To Watch Out For. Kinja. Archived from the original on 14 June 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- "Big Reaction To New Enterprise – New Designer Responds". TrekMovie. SciFanatic Network. 12 November 2008. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2015.