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Victor James Martinez (born 15 July 1971; age 52) is a concept designer and illustrator who worked on Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond.

On Into Darkness, Martinez worked on early concepts for the Royal Children's Hospital and fight sequences between James T. Kirk and Khan Noonien Singh. [1] For Beyond, Martinez received no screen credit but did concept work for some kind of Starfleet vessels and for surface and underground scenes on Altamid. [2]

In 2014, Martinez received an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nomination in the category Fantasy Film for his work on Into Darkness which he shared with Scott Chambliss, Ramsey Avery, James Clyne, Ryan Church, Lauren Polizzi, Kasra Farahani, Michael E. Goldman, Harry E. Otto, Andrew E.W. Murdock, Jason Baldwin Stewart, Natasha Gerasimova, Steve Christensen, Andrea Dopaso, John Eaves, Nathan Schroeder, Christopher Ross, Steven Messing, Karl Strahlendorf, John Chichester, Tex Kadonaga, Kevin Cross, Andrew Reeder, Anne Porter, Jane Wuu, Richard F. Mays, Allen Coulter, Karl Martin, Scott Schneider, Lorrie Campbell, Easton Smith, Tammy Lee, Tim Croshaw, Clint Schultz, and Karen Manthey.

Martinez previously won an ADG Award in the same category in 2010 for his work on Avatar and earned a further nomination in 2016 for Tomorrowland.

Martinez studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and at the UCLA School of Art and Architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture where he earned his BA in Art. He then started to work in the entertainment industry and received his first credit for the 1998 drama A State of Mind on which he worked as set dresser.

Further credits as digital set designer include Minority Report (2002), Solaris (2002), Reign of Fire (2002, directed by Rob Bowman and with Alexander Siddig and Alice Krige), The Cat in the Hat (2003), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004, with Karl Urban), The Terminal (2004), Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Flightplan (2005), Southland Tales (2006, with Dwayne Johnson), Monster House (2006), Déjà Vu (2006), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, and Kelsey Grammer, produced by Ralph Winter, and executive produced by Stan Lee) and Superman Returns (2006, with Frank Langella and directed, co-written, and produced by Bryan Singer).

As concept illustrator, conceptual designer, and concept artist, Martinez worked on the pilot episode of House (2004, directed by Bryan Singer and starring Jennifer Morrison), Deck the Halls (2006), Transformers (2007, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman), Meet Dave (2008), Eagle Eye (2008), Bryan Singer's Valkyrie (2008), Terminator Salvation (2009, with Anton Yelchin), Black Water Transit (2009, with Karl Urban), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Clash of the Titans (both 2010), Jonah Hex (2010), Tron: Legacy (2010), Real Steel (2011), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), the mystery drama Transcendence (2014), Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), Terminator Genisys (2015), The Last Witch Hunter (2015), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and the fantasy sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).

Other projects as concept artist are Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017, with Zoe Saldana, Stephen Blackehart, and Michelle Yeoh and executive produced by Stan Lee), The Mummy (2017, directed by Alex Kurtzman and starring Sofia Boutella), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Justice League (2017), A Wrinkle in Time (2018, starring Chris Pine), and The Predator (2018).

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