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John Knoll (born October 6, 1962) is an American visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer (CCO) at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). [1] One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop (along with his brother, Thomas Knoll), he has also worked as visual effects supervisor on the Star Wars prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy.
Star Wars (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope) George Lucas: 20th Century Fox Lucasfilm Ltd: $11 million $775.5 million 1980 The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back) Irvin Kershner: $33 million $547.9 million 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) Steven Spielberg: Paramount ...
After Star Wars, Dykstra began working on Battlestar Galactica for Universal Studios. Supervising the special effects for the three-hour pilot episode (which was also released theatrically), Dykstra formed his own effects company called Apogee, Inc. which included several ILM employees who had worked on Star Wars. Dykstra was also given a ...
The modest budget of Star Wars dictated that Blalack gather obsolete VistaVision optical composite equipment, modernize and debug each mechanical and optical component, devise methods to mass-produce 365 Visual Effects composites, design the Rotoscope Department, and then hire and train the Optical Composite and Rotoscope crew.
Richard Edlund, ASC (born December 6, 1940) is an American visual effects artist and inventor. He was a founding member of Industrial Light & Magic, having already founded Pignose amplifiers, and later co-founded Boss Film Studios and DuMonde VFX.
After the success of achieving a consistent look with Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Johnson's next film, Knives Out was shot entirely with digital cameras. This was on the advice of the film's cinematographer, Steve Yedlin (who was also the cinematographer of Star Wars: The Last Jedi). As it was possible to produce an image with a digital camera ...
Johnson began developing 5-25-77 in 1999 after he met Gary Kurtz.In 2001, Johnson began seeking funding for 5-25-77, and didn't start shooting the film until 2004. [5] An incomplete "preview cut" was exhibited in 2007 at Star Wars Celebration IV [6] and at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2008, where 5-25-77 won the Heineken Red Star Award.
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back is a television documentary special which originally aired on CBS on September 22, 1980. [1] Hosted by actor Mark Hamill, it is a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the special effects (SP FX) in the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back, which was released that year.