hyunjee clara ryu
concept designer for film, tv, and themed entertainment
clara hails from south korea.
she likes creating playlists she’ll never listen to, doing hour-long en plein air sessions, browsing the criterion channel, and swimming even though she’s bad at it.
Selected
Client Work
Haunted Mansion Queue Expansion Key Art
Client: Walt Disney Imagineering
Design Development
Selected explorations in worldbuilding, architecture, research, and narrative design.
reimagining korean architectural heritage as a library in a frozen mythic world
a safavid-inspired environment for scheherazade’s imagined world, using architectural richness and atmosphere to explore the tension between escape and confinement.
translating 1940s los angeles research and the story’s sense of creative paralysis into an atmospheric hotel.
Selected Illustrations
about
hyunjee clara ryu is a concept designer for themed entertainment, film, and television. Her work combines architectural research, atmosphere, and visual storytelling to create environments that support the people and stories within them.
she has worked with Walt Disney Imagineering, Universal Studios Hollywood, and the Rockefeller Group through Quince Imaging, among others.