Ryan Church | |
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Born |
Long Beach, California, U.S. | July 18, 1971
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.
Ryan Church | |
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Born |
Long Beach, California, U.S. | July 18, 1971
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.