About Kit Rae, the Artist
Kit Rae is an artist who specializes in the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres. Kit’s background in art started when he was a child with charcoal drawing, acrylic and oil painting. He was influenced by such varied artists as Frank Frazetta, Michael Whelan, Boris Vallejo, Jim Burns, Moebius, and H.R. Giger. These days Kit uses a mixed media approach to his art, utilizing drawing, painting, photography, and the computer.

 

About Kit Rae, the Knife Designer
Kit Rae is an award-winning knife designer with a worldwide following for his unique fantasy weapons and sporting knives. He has created custom knife designs for United Cutlery, Harley-Davidson, Colt, Gil Hibben, Remington, Browning, Tops, Uzi, Ford, Stanley, Rigid Knives, and in 1996 won the Blade Magazine award for his Colt Knife/Axe Combo. Kit Rae’s knives have appeared in blockbuster television shows such as “Deep Space Nine”, “The X-Files”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, and numerous films such as “Spider Man 2”, “Star Trek: Nemesis”, and “The Chronicles of Riddick”. In addition to designing the Indiana Jones Khyber Bowie for Lucasfilm and the Sword of Darkness for United Cutlery, Kit Rae has also supervised many licensed weapon replicas from films such as “Blade,” “Total Recall,” “The Mask of Zorro”, “The Shadow”, and over fifty products for “The Lord of the Rings Trilogy”. In 1997 Kit created the highly successful Kit Rae Fantasy Art brand, a line of his edged weapons with companion fantasy art prints. Kit’s fantasy knives and swords spawned the creation of a huge collectible market worldwide for fantasy weapons that has generated numerous imitators. Kit is most well known for his best selling Swords of the Ancients collection.