John Knoll

John Knoll

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John Knoll (Born 1962) 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 "Star Trek Generations" 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.

Feature Films

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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