<![CDATA[io9: nathan crowley]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: nathan crowley]]> http://io9.com/tag/nathancrowley http://io9.com/tag/nathancrowley <![CDATA[10 Hollywood Designers To Watch Out For]]> Science fiction is all about creating strange and incredible worlds, whether they're the future of Earth or a far-off planet. And the key to the most breathtaking science fictional worlds always starts with the work of production designers and concept artists who create brilliant and freaktastic worlds, like James Clyne's concept art for Transformers, above. Or Warren Manser's original art for Stanley Kubrick's version of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, below the fold. Here's our roundup of the 10 designers whose work is exciting us the most right now — and whose forthcoming projects you should watch out for.

Everybody worships Syd (Blade Runner) Mead, or Ralph McQuarrie, who gave the original Star Wars trilogy much of its eyepopping vastness. But some of the designers and artists working today are doing work that's every bit as mindblowing and sensational. (We had a list of about 20 designers we wanted to feature in this post, and had to end up whittling it down. But maybe we'll feature some of the others soon.) A million, million thanks to Lauren Davis for the incredible research help.

Warren Manser (A.I., Spider-Man, Army Of Darkness, Serenity, Speed Racer)

James Clyne (A.I., Minority Report, Galaxy Quest, X-Men 3, Titan A.E., The Fountain, Transformers, Star Trek, Avatar, Battle Angel)

Miles Teves (Men In Black, Terminator III and IV, Iron Man, Outlander)

Nathan Crowley (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Mystery Men, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight)

Guy Hendrix Dyas (Indiana Jones IV, Superman Returns, Galaxy Quest, X-2: X-Men United, Brave New World)

Ryan Church (Star Wars Episode II and III, Avatar, Outlander, Star Trek, John Carter Of Mars)

Alex McDowell (Minority Report, Watchmen)

Jeannine C. Oppewall (Cat People, Pleasantville, The Happening, Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Richard Hudolin (Battlestar Galactica, Stargate: SG-1, Doctor Who)

Daren Dochterman (X-Men 3, Chronicles Of Riddick, Sky High, Get Smart, Dragonball, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Creature From The Black Lagoon)

]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5012506&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Nathan Crowley, Design Superhero]]> Why he rules: In one of his earliest credited gigs, Crowley was the main set designer for the first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, where he helped create the distinctive look of the Promenade, Ops, Quark's bar and other key locations. He also designed the sets for Mystery Men — and the current exhibit of superhero costumes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, where he's used mirrors and clever staging to give a feeling of superhero costumes emerging out of nowhere. But he's probably best known for being production designer on Batman Begins, creating the new Batmobile, the Tumbler. He bought toy models of a Lamborghini and a Hummer, cut them apart and combined them, then stuck the cockpit from a P-38 Lightning on. The hodge-podge looked awful — but it was a start. It took several radical revisions to wind up with the Tumbler that rocked the screen in Begins.

What he's working on: He's production designer on the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight, including some new Bat-toys.

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