Ashley Livingston Thorp (born March 1983) is an

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graphic designer A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, ...

, and

creative director A creative director (or creative supervisor) is a person who makes high-level creative decisions and, with those decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as advertisements, products, events, or logos. Creative director positions ar ...

for feature films, commercial marketing, and print.

Career

As a freelance graphic designer, Thorp created UI (

user interface In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine f ...

) graphics and design content for '' Total Recall'' and ''

Ender's Game ''Ender's Game'' is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with an insectoid alien species they dub ...

''. He also contributed to the direction and concepts for ''

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'', '' X-Men: First Class'', ''

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' (internationally titled ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro'') is a 2014 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. The film was directed by Marc Webb and produced by Avi A ...

'', along with many other feature

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s. In 2013, Thorp launched his own creative design corporation named ALT Creative, Inc. and serves as President of the firm. Thorp also founded and hosts ''The Collective Podcast''. He created the

podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing ...

to connect and share experiences with creatives from all realms of media, including visual effects artists, designers, illustrators, and programmers. Thorp elevated his career from designer to creative director. His first directorial debut in 2014 involved a ''

Ghost in the Shell ''Ghost in the Shell'' is a Japanese cyberpunk media franchise based on the seinen manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. The manga, first serialized in 1989 under the subtitle of ''The Ghost in the Shell'' ...

'' tribute titled ''Project 2501''. Soon thereafter, he wrote and directed the main title for OFFF Barcelona 2014 alongside director

Anthony Scott Burns Anthony Scott Burns (born May 9, 1977) is a Canadian filmmaker, visual effects artist and musician. After starting his film career as a visual effects artist and director, as of 2015 he is directing three feature films in pre-production: ''Dark Ma ...

. In 2015, he assembled an international team of designers and created the title sequence for FITC Tokyo, which was selected as a

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staff pick. Most recently, Thorp created a graphic series titled ''Lost Boy'', which is in further development alongside his co-director, Anthony Scott Burns
PostPanic Pictures
announced that they will be producing a concept short for ''Lost Boy'' with an aimed release date in 2016. For the 2022 film

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Thorp designed the

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as well the

Batcycle The Batcycle, Batblade, or Batpod is the fictional personal motorcycle of the DC Comics superhero Batman. In the comic book universe, Batman's personal Batcycle is a modified street-bike with a 786 cc liquid-cooled V4 engine, V-4 engine. It conta ...

under the lead of the film's production designer

James Chinlund James Chinlund (born March 17, 1971) is an American production designer. He was born and raised in New York City and studied Fine Art at CalArts in Los Angeles, with a focus on sculpture and large scale installation art works. After graduating, ...

."ALT Creative, Inc."
Retrieved 27 July 2022 His most recent film Chimera with actor Tyler Hynes was a great success and went viral shortly after its release.

References

External links

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ALT Creative, Inc.

The Collective Podcast

''Lost Boy''

''Project 2501''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thorp, Ash 1983 births Living people American illustrators American graphic designers American podcasters People from San Diego County, California Film directors from California