Ron Mendell

Ron Mendell is a concept artist, designer and modeler for Hollywood films. He recently worked as a concept artist on 's . His tasks for this film included the design and building of the updated -style communicator.
Mendell's film career began in 1991 as a set model builder on . He has since designed and built set models for such films as Death Becomes Her (working with production illustrators Tom Cranham and Martin Kline), (also working with Cranham and Kline), (featuring Paul Winfield), The Insider (starring Bruce McGill and Christopher Plummer), Three Kings, and (starring Christian Slater). He has also built digital models for films such as (featuring Neal McDonough and Patrick Kilpatrick), (featuring Linda Park), and Ali (featuring LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Brad Greenquist, Albert Hall, Bruce McGill, William Utay, and Wade Andrew Williams).
More recently, Mendell worked as set model designer and builder on , , and . He worked alongside Star Trek set designer Dawn Brown on all three of these films. Mendell and Brown had previously worked together on , on which Mendell was an illustrator and weapons designer.
As a concept designer, Mendell worked on such films as (1995, featuring René Auberjonois and Ed Begley, Jr.), (2002), (2004), (2005), and (2005). He first worked with Star Trek director and producer J.J. Abrams and production designer Scott Chambliss (among many other Star Trek production staff members) as a concept artist on (2006). 
Mendell's other projects include design work for (1998, co-written by J.J. Abrams) and (2006, starring Bruce Greenwood), both of which have Mendell credited as Assistant Art Director. Mendell was also a creature designer for the pilot episode of . In addition, he designed visual effects for (1999, featuring Zach Grenier) and designed vehicles for (2003, featuring Dick Miller, George Murdock, Ron Perlman, and Robert Picardo).
Before Star Trek, his most recent concept design work was for 2008's Iron Man, based on the Marvel Comics character and featuring Faran Tahir. He was also model maker for (2009, starring Rachel Nichols.
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