Christian Lorenz Scheurer
Christian Scheurer was born in Bern, Switzerland. Son of a zoologist father and an artist mother, he lived in several countries throughout his childhood; from the bush in South Africa to the Seychelles Islands. He made his abitur in math and science in Liestal, Switzerland and went on to St. Luc art academy in Belgium, majoring in visual communications with an emphasis on graphic novels.
After winning the prestigious Philip Morris Award for his graphic novels, he was selected to be one of the official artists of the 700-year celebration of Switzerland. In 1995 he moved to Los Angeles to work for Jim Cameron’s VFX company DIGITAL DOMAIN on the his first two feature films Titanic and the Fifth Element.
Since then, he lent his unique creative vison to over summer 50 feature films, which have garnered in total 16 academy awards. He specializes in high concept architectural concepts, vehicles, creatures and characters for major feature films, video games and theme parks.
THE LIGHTNING STORY
"I was living in Brussels in my penthouse apartment on the fifth floor together with my roommates. One night, we were celebrating with a couple of Belgium beers the arrival of a new member of our community. We were sitting on the rooftop terrace, when we suddenly saw a huge lightning storm in the distance. After stumbling to bed, I woke up feeling as if I had a particularly horrible flu. I realized that there was a brick missing in the wall, my radio alarm clock had exploded like a watermelon and there were pulverized rocks in my bed. The electricity and phonelines in the entire 5-story building were out. That night, I tried frantically to replace the fuses with no success. Early in the morning, one of my roommates came home to find me rocking back and forth in a corner. When he asked me what happened, I replied, "I have rocks in my bed."
While driving to the hospital in a U-Haul used for the previous day's move, my roommate came to the conclusion that a lightning bolt must have hit the building and passed over me in my sleep. At that point, I slowly was becoming aware that my eyesight was going.
The personnel in the hospital weren't very receptive to our story. They spent over an hour asking us if we had used any kinds of drugs lately. In order to get rid of us, the doctors decided to make an electrocardiogram. When I removed my T-shirt, two sun-shaped burn marks were revealed on my chest, one under my right shoulder and the other about a hand's-width under my heart. At the sight of those marks, all of the doctors started to kick into action and realized that I had actually been hit. Apparently the two marks were "Entry" and "Exit" marks from the lightning bolt which had just barely missed my heart.
The next ten days I spent in the neurology ward, with a kind truck driver who was having a tumor the size of a tennis ball removed from his cranium.
After a successful recovery and my release from the hospital, I came to the conclusion that life is pretty short and that one can die at any moment (even in one's sleep). I also realized that it's a good idea to pursue one's dreams, better sooner than later. With that resolution, I put together my portfolio and headed off to Hollywood."
- Christian Lorenz Scheurer
Some credits include:
Upcoming:
Superman: Man of Tomorrow
Godzilla v Kong Supernova
Highlander
Street Fighter
Jumanji 3
Dune prophecy: Season 2
Superman
Damsel
Red One
Dune Prophecy (HBO)
Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3
Jumanji: The Next Level
John Wick III: Parabelum
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Aquaman (1&2)
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Suicide Squad
Black Adam
Free Guy
The Tomorrow War
Tales of the Loop (Amazon)
Justice League
Batman v Superman
Man of Steel
Rise of the Guardians
Independence Day 2
San Andreas
Divergent
300: Rise of an Empire
Thor: The Dark World
Day after Tomorrow
Spore (video game)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (video game)
Animatrix
Final Fantasy 9 (video game)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
What Dreams May Come
Dark City
The Matrix
Titanic
The Fifth Element