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Ron Mendell

Ron Mendell is a concept artist, designer and modeler for Hollywood films who worked as a concept artist on Star Trek. His tasks for this film included the design and building of the updated Star Trek: The Original Series-style communicator.

Mendell's film career began in 1991 as a set model builder on Hook (starring Robin Williams). He has since designed and built set models for such films as Death Becomes Her (working with Star Trek: The Motion Picture production illustrators Tom Cranham and Martin Kline), Jurassic Park (also working with Cranham and Kline), Mars Attacks! (featuring Paul Winfield), The Insider (starring Bruce McGill and Christopher Plummer), Three Kings (1999, starring Mark Wahlberg, with Doug Jones), and Windtalkers (starring Christian Slater). He has also built digital models for films such as Minority Report (2002, starring Max von Sydow, with Neal McDonough and Patrick Kilpatrick), Jurassic Park III (2001, featuring Linda Park), and Ali (2001, starring Jon Voight, featuring LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Joe Morton, Ted Levine, Brad Greenquist, Albert Hall, Bruce McGill, William Utay and Wade Andrew Williams).

Mendell also worked as set model designer and builder on Solaris, Ocean's Eleven, and Ocean's Thirteen. He worked alongside Star Trek set designer Dawn Brown on all three of these films. Mendell and Brown had previously worked together on Batman & Robin, on which Mendell was an illustrator and weapons designer.

As a concept designer, Mendell worked on such films as Batman Forever (1995, featuring René Auberjonois and Ed Begley, Jr.), XXX (2002), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), XXX: State of the Union (2005), and War of the Worlds (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 Mission: Impossible III (2006).

Mendell's other projects include design work for Armageddon (1998, co-written by J.J. Abrams) and Déjà Vu (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 Babylon 5. In addition, he designed visual effects for Fight Club (1999, featuring Zach Grenier) and designed vehicles for Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003, featuring Dick Miller, George Murdock, Ron Perlman, and Robert Picardo).

He also provided concept design work for Iron Man (2008, featuring Faran Tahir). He was also model maker for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009, starring Rachel Nichols).

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