John Knoll
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| John Knoll | |
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1962 |
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- "No matter how technologically advanced moviemaking instruments have become, they remain tools. And as tools, they will always need artists to wield them, and their creative visions to lead the way. To us, there is no greater example of such an artist than John Knoll. Whatever the problem we throw at him, he'll never fail to come up with a solution that not only meets the technical requirements or limitations of the project, but also makes sense within the overall storytelling. Hand the impossible to John, and he'll crack it."
- ―Rick McCallum
John Knoll is a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic. He is a three-time Academy Award nominee for his work on visual effects, and co-created the digital image-processing program Adobe Photoshop. He made cameo appearances as Rya Kirsch in Episode I, as Tannon Praji and the Coruscant fire fighter pilot in Episode III.
In addition to his extensive visual effects work on the prequels, Knoll created the opening crawls for all three films on his personal computer.[1]
His first book, Creating the Worlds of Star Wars: 365 Days was released on October 1, 2005.
He also worked with George Lucas on the 1988 film Willow, on which he served as a served as ILM's animation camera operator.
Notes and references
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Episode III: How It Begins on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
External linksEdit
- John Knoll on Wikipedia
- John Knoll at the Internet Movie Database
- Episode I Update: John Knoll on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
- John Knoll's Tour of the Saga on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
- Setting the Star Wars Stage: John Knoll's 365 Days on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
