Keith Christensen

Keith Christensen is an American concept artist and designer with over twenty years of experience in film and television. A native of Chicago, Christensen attended art school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has worked as a concept artist since moving to Los Angeles in 1997. Besides drawing and painting, Christensen has also sculpted concepts and designs for television and film productions.

Christensen was hired in late October 2018 to create concept art for Dune and collaborated for over a year with director Denis Villeneuve and production designer Patrice Vermette. Pickups and reshoots in 2020 necessitated some additional work on existing and new designs.

Christensen's conceptual work on the film focused primarily on clothing and armour designs and character designs. These included Fremen stillsuits and clothes (including further elaborating preliminary designs by Joseph Cross), the armour and practical military clothing of House Atreides, House Harkonnen and the emperor's sardaukar, the clothing of duke Leto, Dr. Yueh, baron Harkonnen and Glossu Rabban Harkonnen, as well as the ceremonial clothing of the Bene Gesserit order and the representatives of the Spacing Guild.

Film concept art

 * Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
 * The Last Samurai (2003)
 * Apocalypto (2006)
 * X-Men 3 (2006)
 * 300 (2007)
 * Watchmen (2009)
 * Tron: Legacy (2010)
 * The Last Airbender (2010)
 * Oblivion (2011)
 * Battleship (2011)
 * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (David Fincher adaptation, late 2000s, cancelled)
 * The Avengers (2012)
 * The Amazing Spiderman (2012)
 * Man of Steel (2013)
 * The Wolverine (2013)
 * X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
 * The Amazing Spiderman 2 (2014)
 * Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
 * Jupiter Ascending (2015)
 * Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
 * X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
 * Logan (2017)
 * Dunkirk (2017)
 * Ghost in the Shell (2017)
 * The Dark Tower (2017)
 * Black Panther (2018)
 * Aquaman (2018)

Television concept art

 * Altered Carbon (2018-2020)

Animated series concept art

 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * X-Men: Supernova