Ryan Church
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. He worked on James Cameron's Avatar (2009) and is responsible for the updated design of the USS Enterprise in J. Abrams's Star Trek films 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.
Ryan Church
- Name
- Ryan Church
- Born
- 18 July 1971
- Birthplace
- Long Beach, California, U.S.
- Education
- Art Center College of Design (B.S.) University of California, Los Angeles (B.A.)
- Occupation
- Concept designer, industrial designer
- Nationality
- United States.
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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. He worked on James Cameron's Avatar (2009) and is responsible for the updated design of the USS Enterprise in J. Abrams's Star Trek films 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.
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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.
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• Name — Ryan Church • Born — 18 July 1971 • Birthplace — Long Beach, California, U.S. • Education — Art Center College of Design (B.S.) University of California, Los Angeles (B.A.) • Occupation — Concept designer, industrial designer • Years Active — 1998 - present • Website — www.ryanchurch.com
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• 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) • 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) • Ready Player One (2018) (illustrator) • The Mandalorian (2019-2022) (concept supervisor) • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) (concept artist) • Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2020) (senior 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 design supervisor) • Ahsoka (2023) (concept supervisor)
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• 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)
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Ryan Church born at Long Beach.
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- 1.Church, Ryan. Otherworldly Concept Designs of Ryan Church. Animation World Network. 13 July 2005.
- 2.Anders, Charlie Jane. Ryan Church, Master Of Creatures And Robots. io9. Kinja. 10 June 2008.
- 3.SciFanatic Network. Big Reaction To New Enterprise – New Designer Responds. TrekMovie. 12 November 2008.
- 4.Dammes, Matthias. Star Citizen: RSI Constellation Mk3 im Detail vorgestellt. PC Games. Computec Media. 16 November 2012.
- 5.Reahard, Jef. Star Citizen's Aurora revealed, Roberts explains further crowdfunding goals. Massively. AOL. 27 April 2013.
- 6.Reahard, Jef. The best bits of Star Citizen's 24-hour livestream. Massively. AOL. 30 June 2013.
- 7.Roberts, Chris. Star Citizen: Ship Design and Star Wars Fantasies. IGN. 15 November 2012.
- 8.Roberts, Chris. Star Citizen: Crowdfunding’s Final Frontier. Red Bull Games. 7 January 2015.
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