For over seven years, Terryl worked for Lucasfilm LTD., Industrial Light and Magic and George Lucas' JAK Films and is considered the foremost creature designer in the world. Her unique combination of illustration skills and comprehensive knowledge of animal anatomy and movement are essential components in the design, anatomy and physical animation aspects of creature creation.

In her work on the new Star Wars trilogy, she worked directly with George Lucas for whom she designed countless creatures for the films and related products, including CD-ROMs. A collection of her work for Lucasfilm, "The Wildlife of Star Wars," was published by Chronicle Books in 2001 to critical acclaim and popular success. Terryl also designed for many electronic and interactive games for leading publishers including Steven's Spielberg's The Dig.

Terryl worked with many major studios and effects houses as a highly sought after creature and concept designer. In addition to her work on Star Wars, her films include Jumanji I and II, The Indian in the Cupboard, Bear Country, Dragonheart and Polar Express.

In addition to her continuing work on the Katurran Odyssey series, Terryl is designing fantasy animals for a traditional carousel to be built in her community.

Terryl makes her home with her husband, Tom in Oregon.

Ryan Church
(www.ryanchurch.com)

When Ryan was a kid, he liked dinosaurs and airplanes. His dad, who is an industrial designer, taught him how to draw decently by age 5 or 6, so he would make his own dinosaur books or draw stuff he’d seen in movies. After graduating from high school, Ryan went to UCLA to get a broad education and took night classes at Art Center College of Design to help focus his design skills.

Ryan started Art Center full-time in Fall '94 with a scholarship, majoring in Transportation Design. He wanted to make sure he learned the nuts and bolts of Industrial Design as well as the Illustration skills- to be able to design a vehicle or an environment that makes sense and looks good and then to depict it in three dimensional space. About halfway through his studies, Art Center started to feature Entertainment Design classes. By that time, he knew he didn't want to be a car designer. Ryan's heart was more in airplanes and architecture. Ryan eventually graduated with honors as a Transportation Design major with emphasis on Entertainment Design. His time at Art Center was really fantastic. The quality of the instructors was high, but he really owes his experience to classmates and upper term students for providing the competition that was essential to push him along.

Ryan got a job at Walt Disney Imagineering right out of college and also did some freelancing on the side for Universal Studios. WDI was a great place to work, but a lot of the projects moved too quickly from the ‘blue sky fun’ phase to the engineering, budgeting,... the reality part. A refreshing change came in the form of a job at Industrial Light + Magic in the digital features division. Ryan was at ILM for 3 years before moving up to Skywalker Ranch as a Concept Design Supervisor on Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones and stayed on for Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. 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.

At the beginning of Episode III pre-production, Ryan went down to Pasadena every weekend to teach Advanced Entertainment Design at Art Center. Response was great, and it was a great experience for him, too. But, his work schedule got too hectic to continue. In late 2003, Ryan got together with Alex Alvarez at Gnomon School of Visual Effects to produce DVD demos. They do not focus on the software but on the techniques he used daily at work. It has been over two years, and they continue to serve as a great substitute to being in his class for those who want to learn to design and paint digitally for feature film, themed environment, and video games.

In the Spring of 2005, Ryan relocated to Southern California to start the next chapter of his career as a freelance concept artist. Ryan still has strong ties to Industrial Light + Magic, and his client list keeps growing and now includes Paramount Studios, Mattel, Sony Pictures, Blue Sky Studios, Walt Disney Feauture Animation, and Electronic Arts.