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 ', ', 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. 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 ' (2014) presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Church returned to the Star Wars franchise in 2013 as a concept artist for ', Rogue One and '. 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
- ' (2002) (concept design supervisor)
- ' (2005) (concept design supervisor)
- War of the Worlds (2005) (creature designer)
- Transformers (2007) (concept artist)
- Outlander (2008) (concept artist)
- Star Trek (2009) (concept designer)
- ' (2009) (concept artist)
- Avatar (2009) (concept artist)
- Super 8 (2011) (concept artist)
- ' (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)
- ' (2014) (designer: Ship of the Imagination)
- ' (2015) (visual effects art director)
- Tomorrowland (2015) (concept artist)
- ' (2015) (concept artist)
- ' (2016) (concept artist)
- ' (2017) (visual effects art director)
- Ready Player One (2018) (illustrator)
- The Mandalorian (2019-2022) (concept supervisor)
- ' (2019) (concept artist)
- ' (2020) (senior concept artist)
- The Book of Boba Fett (2021) (concept supervisor)
- Pinocchio (2022) (concept artist)
- ' (2022) (concept artist)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) (concept design supervisor)
- Ahsoka (2023) (concept supervisor)
Video games
- ' (2006) (cinematic painter)
- ' (2007) (concept artist)
- ' (2008) (additional art)
- Dead Space (2008) (concept artist: art)
- Star Citizen (TBA): (concept artist)
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