Victor Martinez

Victor James Martinez is a concept designer and illustrator who worked on and .
On Into Darkness, Martinez worked on early concepts for the Royal Children's Hospital and fight sequences between and . 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. 
In , 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 and earned a further nomination in 2016 for .
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 (2002), (2002), (2002, directed by Rob Bowman and with Alexander Siddig and Alice Krige), (2003), (2004, with Karl Urban), (2004), (2004), (2005), (2006, with Dwayne Johnson), (2006), (2006), and (2006, with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Kelsey Grammer, with Shohreh Aghdashloo, Chelah Horsdal, Julian Christopher, and John Pyper-Ferguson, 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 (2004, directed by Bryan Singer and starring Jennifer Morrison), (2006), (2007, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman), (2008), (2008), Bryan Singer's (2008), (2009, with Anton Yelchin), (2009, with Karl Urban), (2010), (2010), (2010), (2010), (2011), (2013), (2014), (2014), (2015), (2015), (2016), and (2016).
Other projects as concept artist are (2017, with Zoe Saldana, Stephen Blackehart, and Michelle Yeoh and executive produced by Stan Lee), (2017, directed by Alex Kurtzman and starring Sofia Boutella), (2017), (2017), (2018, starring Chris Pine), and (2018).
== External links ==
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Category:Art department
Category:ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nominees