Tim Earls

Timothy Martin Earls , also known as Timothy M.M. Earls, is an artist and illustrator who worked as a set designer on . In addition, he illustrated the Starfleet Technical Database articles, the Star Trek: The Starfleet Survival Guide, and assisted in the illustrations for Star Trek: Star Charts and New Worlds, New Civilizations.
Born at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana, Earls originally trained as an architect, earning a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. After sixteen years as an architectural designer, Earls moved to California to work as art director on a friend's computer games company. Unfortunately, the company failed not long after Earls arrived, leaving him searching for a position without a large number of contacts. Earls eventually ended up at Babylonian Productions, where he worked as a set and concept designer, and visual effects art director on Babylon 5 (starring Mary Kay Adams, Andreas Katsulas, Bill Mumy, Tracy Scoggins, Patricia Tallman, and Walter Koenig) and its sequel series, Crusade. From there, Earls was brought on board Star Trek: Voyager by Richard James and Louise Dorton.
In addition to his work on Voyager and Babylon 5, Earls was also set designer for such TV shows as , and Resurrection Blvd. and was a visual consultant on Brannon Braga's , starring Brent Spiner.
Earls has designed sets for several major motion pictures. For Paramount Pictures, he worked on (2003) and was senior lead set designer on (2006). His other film set design credits include (starring David Andrews and Kristanna Loken) and (2005, featuring Jennifer Morrison and costume designs by Michael Kaplan). He was the lead set designer on , (2006) and (2006, featuring Tim Russ). Earls worked with fellow Voyager set designer Gregory S. Hooper on the latter three films.
He was also an art director on (2004). He more recently designed sets for the musical comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
Earls considers British designer to be the biggest influence on his career.
== Further reading ==
* "Tim Earls: Set Designer", , April 2001, pp. 24-32
* "The Art of Tim Earls; Star Trek: Voyager Season Six''", , March 2002, pp. 22-28
== External link ==
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