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Thom Tenery

@thomtenery.bsky.social
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Art Director. Concept Artist. TRON: (Ares) Ascension, Rogue One, Solo, Star Wars: Force Awakens, Oblivion, iD Software, WOTC/D&D, NatGeo, TOR/Orbit ADG Local 800 www.thomlab.com

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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Climate Report
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Public Access is rad.
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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 07/01/2026
The No ICE in Minnesota charity bundle submission period is now open: itch.io/jam/no-ice-i... All games, free and paid, TTRPG and browser based-alike are welcome Submissions are open until January 26 & the charity bundle supporting a Minnesota based Immigrants' rights org will go live in February
graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Concept art from my time on the Disney lot in 2013 working on Joseph Kosinski’s TRON: Ascension with the incredible Production Designer Darren Gilford, David Levy, Annis Naeem, and Kristen Maloney.
Concept art from the 2013 version of Joseph Konsinski's TRON: Ascension. Three red lightcycles on a real-world highway being pursued by a police car. One of the lightcycles activates its lightwall/lighttrail and splits the police car in two.Concept art from the 2013 version of Joseph Konsinski's TRON: Ascension. Three red lightcycles on a real-world highway being pursued by a police car. One of the lightcycles activates its lightwall/lighttrail and splits the police car in two.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I spent 6 months on the Disney lot in 2013 working on Joseph Kosinski’s TRON: Ascension with the incredible Production Designer Darren Gilford, David Levy, Annis Naeem, and Kristen Maloney. It took more than 10 years for it to evolve into TRON: ARES ....
Shot design and concept art for TRON: ARES (formerly TRON: Ascension), created for the 2013 version of Joseph Kosinski's TRON sequel. This shot shows a red lightcycle in a real-world urban context moving stealthily between two big rigs on a highway in the city.Shot design and concept art for TRON: ARES (formerly TRON: Ascension), created for the 2013 version of Joseph Kosinski's TRON sequel. This shot shows a red lightcycle in a real-world urban context moving at high speed on a highway in the city being pursued by police cars and a police helicopter.
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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The next two (!) books of the Wildendrem tabletop RPG setting are coming soon to Kickstarter. #osr www.kickstarter.com/projects/626...
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Coming soon: Wildendrem Volume Two: The Saintly Hollows
Two new books of mythic adventure in a land of wonder and peril, for use on their own or alongside the award-winning Valley of Flowers.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Concept art for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Mimban - trench warfare, ultra-tanks, slave Wookies, desolate vistas - the horrors of war in one dark sequence. We were riffing on historical WW1 photography for this location.
Concept art for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Mimban - trench warfare, desolate vistas, ultra-tanks, slave Wookies - all the horrors of war in one dark sequence. Concept art for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Mimban - trench warfare, desolate vistas, ultra-tanks, slave Wookies - all the horrors of war in one dark sequence. Concept art for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Mimban - trench warfare, desolate vistas, ultra-tanks, slave Wookies - all the horrors of war in one dark sequence. Concept art for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Mimban - trench warfare, desolate vistas, ultra-tanks, slave Wookies - all the horrors of war in one dark sequence.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Mega-Cenotes and paddlewheel boats on Gangster Planet, aka ‘Crime Island’ for Star Wars: Solo. We explored every Western trope we could think of for this film. These didn't fly, but I always liked the Apocalypse Now vibe.
Concept art for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Mega-Cenote on Gangster PlanetConcept art for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Han and Chewie riding a paddlewheel boat toward a gangster hideout.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Concept Art for Rogue One: Saw Gerrera's downed ship as resistance hideout. I always liked how 'quiet' these felt. There was strong support from Doug Chiang (PD) and Gareth Edwards for working that way - a very vibes-forward attitude to concept art on that film.
Concept Art for Rogue One: Saw Gerrera's downed ship as resistance hideout.Concept Art for Rogue One: Saw Gerrera's downed ship as resistance hideout.Concept Art for Rogue One: Saw Gerrera's downed ship as resistance hideout.Concept Art for Rogue One: Saw Gerrera's downed ship as resistance hideout.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Concept art for Solo, A Star Wars Story: the Imperial Conveyex (train) heist. I remember the crew at ILMxLAB were walking around on top of my train on a virtual stage planning action for scenes as quickly as I could hand off concept models. That use of VR was new-ish tech at the time (2015).
Concept art for Solo, A Star Wars Story: the Imperial Conveyex (train) heist.Concept art for Solo, A Star Wars Story: the Imperial Conveyex (train) heist.Concept art for Solo, A Star Wars Story: the Imperial Conveyex (train) heist.Concept art for Solo, A Star Wars Story: the Imperial Conveyex (train) heist.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Concept Design for Kylo Ren’s Command Shuttle, aka JKShuttle (Jedi Killer), from Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens - From 3d sketch to final. We spent about a month designing this one. I think it was one of the first approved designs for the film.
Concept Design for Kylo Ren’s Command Shuttle from Star Wars: Episode VII The Force AwakensConcept Design for Kylo Ren’s Command Shuttle from Star Wars: Episode VII The Force AwakensConcept Design for Kylo Ren’s Command Shuttle from Star Wars: Episode VII The Force AwakensConcept Design for Kylo Ren’s Command Shuttle from Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Andor is a gift. I still can’t believe it got made. Here’s more of my Rogue One concept art - the Occupation of Jedha. Reality continues to be stranger and more cruel than fiction.
Concept Art from the movie Rogue One - the Occupation of JedhaConcept Art from the movie Rogue One - the Occupation of JedhaConcept Art from the movie Rogue One - the Occupation of Jedha
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Vader’s Chamber (Bacta Tank variant) and Chamber Door concept art for Rogue One. I think this made the screen mostly intact. I’d forgotten this set was code-named the “White House” during preproduction. That’s giving this 10 yr old work new resonance for me given current events.
Vader’s Chamber (Bacta Tank variant) and Chamber Door concept art for Rogue OneVader’s Chamber (Bacta Tank variant) and Chamber Door concept art for Rogue OneVader’s Chamber (Bacta Tank variant) and Chamber Door concept art for Rogue One
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I’m ready.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Concept Art and process work for Rogue One. I worked on this sequence from early concept art to the set build - based (very) loosely around a Ralph McQuarrie sketch from the original trilogy. This shot was so spot-on the concept art that I remember gasping audibly during the screening.
Concept art for the Star Wars film Rogue One. Mountain platform scene.Concept art for the Star Wars film Rogue One. Mountain platform scene.Concept art for the Star Wars film Rogue One. Mountain platform scene.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My design for the TIE Striker from Rogue One. Gareth Edwards asked for an atmospheric TIE for the Scarif assault. I always preferred the compact variant (3) but still really like this 'long-pill' that we put in the film. ILM absolutely nailed it with a completely faithful realization of the design.
design for the TIE Striker from Rogue Onedesign for the TIE Striker from Rogue Onedesign for the TIE Striker from Rogue One
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Early concept designs for Jyn's Ship from Rogue One. Jyn's Ship was an art department-wide development effort. It was a career highlight working with a legendary team on the most significant movie-world of my youth. Find much more on the development of Jyn's ship in The Art of Rogue One art book.
concept art for Jyn's ship from Rogue One.
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Bethany Jacobs @dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Didn't I tell you she would be beautiful? Here is the cover launch for THIS BRUTAL MOON available November 11, 2025.⁣ ⁣ Design by Alexia Pereira. Background Illustration by @thomtenery.bsky.social
book cover against a green cityscape background. Book cover depicts (in green to blue gradient)a profile against an image of missiles striking a cityscape, with a central tower split in two. This Brutal Moon by Bethany Jacobs
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Bethany Jacobs @dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Check out the evolution of the #onviciousworlds cover, with art by @thomtenery.bsky.social. OVW is eligible for awards! Consider nominating for the Hugo Best Novel and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. I'd love your support! @orbitbooks.bsky.social @awfulagent.bsky.social
Black and white hand drawing of a city with a tower in the backgroundBlack and white hand drawing of a city with a tower in the background, overlaid with a gradient purple silhouette of a woman with a shaved head, and the title On Vicious Worlds by Bethany Jacobs.Refined black and white hand illustration of a city with a tower in the background, overlaid with a deeper purple silhouette of a woman with a shaved head, and the title On Vicious Worlds by Bethany Jacobs. Includes a blurb from Ren Hutchings, author of Under Fortunate Stars: "Jacobs is an ingenious worldbuilder and a stunning new voice to look out for in sci-fi."
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I remember the day I made this. It was a Tuesday.
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Brandon (bk) Kitkouski @bkstudio.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Day of the Big Bird! Here’s a detail from a personal piece that fits today’s theme. ‘Precipice’
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Keys to December. I was reading a lot of Zelazny at the time. I think this was for ImagineFX magazine (2013?) - not certain about that, it's been too long.
The Keys to December. Illustration of an ancient mechanical structure with a flat vertical tower rising from a bridge-like structure spanning an icy landscape. Vertical towers of icy rock in the background. Foreground silhouette of primitive humanoids apparently offering an animal sacrifice on an alter to this megastructure. The 3 primitives recall the Darwinian 'evolution of man' diagram seen in textbooks depicting the change over time of ape/chimp to homo sapiens.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The Bronze Road. another old one. i've always been annoyed by the scale problems with this one, but whatever.
a moody mountain landscape with soaring vertical landforms and a "bronze" tower/fortress on a prominence in the distance. a small caravan crosses a bridge over a gorge. strange plant-forms take flight, apparently fauna.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Me in my Echo Chamber
A brain in a tank of green water. A still from the Jeunet and Caro film The City of Lost Children (1995)
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
On this bandwagon I guess. If you see this, post a monster!
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Danny Schwartz ➡️ IX Arts Showcase! @dannyschwartzart.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
“Void”, for wowxwow’s “Otherworldly and Wild” show
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
rad
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
crop of a piece for a book called BLAST (2012). there's something vaguely steampunk about it aesthetically although i never really subscribed to the genre. maybe it's the dystopic carnival atmosphere, idk.
illustration for BLAST: spaceship sketches and rendering, published 2012, Design Studio Press.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Vertical Worlds - very old work for various publications.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
work done years ago for D&D 5e. 'Temple of Umberlee'. not sure where WOTC published this.
Temple of Umberlee. illustration for WOTC/D&D. moody, rocky coast, shipwreck, temple on rocks partially illuminated by sun, distant town in background in silhouette.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
whoa. right there with you.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
work done years ago for D&D 5e
fantasy art for D&D 5e. a misty, idyllic, wood/forest setting. elven architecture nestled beneath gargantuan trees.
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Up High Street, Past the Houses Digital painting
Painting of a snowy hedge at night
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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Laurelin in Gold Digital painting
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
From the before times
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Thom Tenery @thomtenery.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
hello, whorl
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