JOHN KNOLL

'John Knoll' is an Academy-award winning motion picture visual effects specialist at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop (along with his brother, Thomas), he is recently best known for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the ''Star Wars'' prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy. He also served as ILM's visual effects supervisor for '' and '', as well as the '' series.
Knoll was also the Computer Graphics Project Designer on ''The Abyss'', an achievement which earned ILM its tenth Academy Award for Visual Effects.
Knoll also worked on two Star Trek episodes - 's pilot episode ("Encounter at Farpoint") and the '' episode "Explorers". In the latter episode, he created the award winning and popular Bajoran solar sail ship.

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Feature Films

Books

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Feature Films

Year	Title	Other Notes
2007		Visual Effects Supervisor
2006		Visual Effects Supervisor
2005		Visual Effects Supervisor
2003		Visual Effects Supervisor
2002		Visual Effects Supervisor
2000	Mission to Mars	Visual Effects Supervisor
1999	Deep Blue Sea	Visual Effects Supervisor
1999		Visual Effects Supervisor
1996		Visual Effects Supervisor
1996		Visual Effects Supervisor
1994	Star Trek Generations	Visual Effects Supervisor
1994	Baby's Day Out	Visual Effects Supervisor
1991	Hudson Hawk	Visual Effects Supervisor
1991	Hook	Visual Effects Supervisor
1990	The Hunt for Red October	Visual Effects Supervisor
1989	The Abyss	CG Supervisor
1988	Willow	Motion Control Camera Operator
1987	Innerspace	Motion Control Camera Operator
1987	Empire of the Sun	Motion Control Camera Operator
1987		Motion Control Camera Operator
1986		Motion Control Camera Operator
1986	Captain EO	Motion Control Camera Operator

Books

★ John Knoll, J. W. Rinzler: Creating the Worlds of Star Wars: 365 Days with CDROM; Book about the Making of the Star Wars Saga; ISBN 0-8109-5936-4

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