Ryan Church (concept Artist)

Ryan Church (concept Artist)

Ryan Church (born July 18, 1971 in Long Beach, CA) is an American-born concept designer best known for his designs of vehicles, planets, and architectures as a concept design supervisor on George Lucas's Star Wars Episode II, Episode III, 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 film.

Church graduated with honors in Transportation Design with emphasis on Entertainment Design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.

He has recently in 2013 designed the Aurora entry level space ship for the Star Citizen PC game which is currently at a pre alpha stage of development.