Ryan Church

Ryan Church is a concept artist who designed several ships for Star Citizen.

Works in CIG
Ryan church work include the Constellation   ,the Retaliator , the Merlin , the Idris    , the Crucible  , the Panther Escort Carrier   and the Aurora.

Other roles
Ryan Church got a job at Walt Disney Imagineering right out of college and also did some freelancing on the side for Universal Studios. He then worked at Industrial Light + Magic in the digital features division. Ryan Church was at ILM for 3 years before moving up to Skywalker Ranch as Concept Design Supervisor on Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones (2002) and stayed on for Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith (2005). He was also a Senior Art Director at ILM where he did a lot of hands-on work during the post-production of Star Wars movies and played a major role in creating the Tripods in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005).

In 2005, he relocated back to Southern California to start the next chapter of his career as a freelance concept artist. His client list keeps growing and now includes Paramount Studios, Universal Pictures, Mattel, Sony Pictures, Blue Sky Studios, Bay Films, Lightstorm Entertainment, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Dino de Laurentiis Company, Digital Domain, and Electronic Arts. He has been lending his skills on many bid projects as well as high profile film projects such as Star Trek (2009), Transformers 2 (2009), and James Cameron's Avatar (2009), Transformers 3 (2011), Disney's John Carter (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014), Tomorrowland (2014), Star Wars the Force Awakens (2015), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), The Mandalorian (2019), Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker (2019).