Ryan Church (concept artist)

American concept designer

Ryan Church
Born	(1971-07-18) July 18, 1971 (age 53) 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

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]

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.
^ ^a ^b 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.