Karl J. Martin

Karl J. Martin is a Los Angeles-based digital artist, art director and set designer who created digital graphics for , and and designed sets for , , and .
Martin worked as a visual effects model maker on (1991, starring Billy Campbell), (1992, with Terri Garr, Thalmus Rasulala, and Wallace Shawn), Monolith (1993, with Musetta Vander), and (1993, with John de Lancie).
Beside his work on the Star Trek television series, he also worked as a digital artist on , M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994), Space: Above and Beyond (1995), Spy Game (1997), and (1999), (1994), (1996, starring Christian Slater), (2001), (2001, starring Greg Ellis), and (2002).
His work as set designer features in (1992), (1992), (1992), , , and Babylon 5, (1994), (1994), (1995), (1997), (1998), (1999), (1999), (2000), , She Spies, , and , (2004) and (2005), , , Day Break (2006), Deadwood (2006), Wildfire (2007), (2008), Sons of Anarchy (2008), Eleventh Hour (2009), (2009), (2009), and (2009), the television revival Wonder Woman (2011), (2012), (2012, working with William Ladd Skinner and Aaron Haye), (2012), (2012, with Geoffrey Mandel), (2012), (2013), (2014), and (2014).
For his work on Avatar, he won an Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Directors Guild in the category Fantasy Films in 2010, which he shared with fellow Star Trek alumni Robert Stromberg, Dorian Bustamante, Ryan Church, James Clyne, Daphne Yap, C. Scott Baker, Scott Herbertson, Joseph Hiura, Tex Kadonaga, and Gregory Jein, as well as four further Art Directors Guild Award nominations, and three wins for Passengers (2016), Homecoming (2018), and (2019).
Martin was the production designer on the action film Shadow of the Dragon (1992) and the short films Untitled: 003-Embryo (2002 with Ethan Phillips) and Legion: The Word Made Flesh (2005), and served as art director on (2014), (2017), (2018) and (2019). He had featured cameo roles in Babylon 5 (1998, with Andreas Katsulas, Marshall R. Teague, and Mirron E. Willis) and The One (2001).
More recently, Martin worked as set designer on The Magnificent Seven, Westworld, and Passengers (2016), Geostorm (2017), (2018), (2019), (2019), (2021), (2021), and (2022).
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Category:Special and Visual effects staff
Category:Art department
Category:ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nominees