John Knoll

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John Knoll

John Knoll (* 1962 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) is a US- American specialist in visual effects and an Oscar winner.

Life

Knoll is the son of college professor Glenn Knoll, from whom he inherited his interest in photography and computers. He is married and has four kids.

Together with his brother Thomas Knoll , at the end of the 1980s he was one of the inventors of the image processing program Photoshop , which was first called Display , or ImagePro for short , and was finally published in 1990 by Adobe Systems as Photoshop . A photo that Knoll took and named Jennifer in Paradise was the first color image to demonstrate the capabilities of Photoshop. It shows Knoll's girlfriend at the time, with whom he is now married, sitting on a beach with his bare back turned to the viewer. Her gaze is directed towards the sea in front of her.

Knoll has been working as a CGI specialist at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) since 1986 . As an employee of ILM, he has worked on numerous films, including Star Wars , Star Trek and Mission: Impossible . He was also the Computer Graphics Project Designer for Abyss - Abyss of Death (1989). For this film, ILM was awarded an Oscar for the best special effects. Knoll himself won the award after three unsuccessful nominations in 2007 for his work on Pirates of the Caribbean - Pirates of the Caribbean 2 (2006).

Knoll was involved in the story development for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).

Visual Effects - Film (selection)

John Knoll was involved in the following films as a CGI specialist:

Visual Effects - Promotional Films

  • Lucasfilm LTD THX (Trailer) - Motion Control Camera Operator (1987)
  • Pacific Bell Smart Yellow Pages - Visual Effects Supervisor (1988)
  • US Air Ballet - Director (1989)
  • FDA Radon (PSA) - Visual Effects Supervisor (1989)
  • Crystal Light Shade - Visual Effects Supervisor (1990)
  • Chevron High Performance - Visual Effects Supervisor (1990)
  • NEC Turbo Grafix - Visual Effects Supervisor (1990)
  • Panasonic Broadcast Simulator - Visual Effects Supervisor (1990)
  • Dodge Daytona Starting Price - Visual Effects Supervisor (1991)
  • Intel Computer Inside - Director (1991)

Documentation

  • From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic (1999)
  • The Beginning: Making Episode I (2001)
  • State of the Art: The Pre-Visualization of Episode II (2002)
  • From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in Episode II (2002)
  • An Epic at Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
  • No Feat But What We Make: Terminator 2 and the Rise of Digital Effects (2003)

Guest appearances

John Knoll had his first guest appearance in the first part of Mission: Impossible as a passenger in the train (tunnel). In Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace he appeared as Lieutenant Rya Kirsch, in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith as a spaceship pilot.

author

With Star Wars - George Lucas and the creation of his worlds , John Knoll and JW Rinzler have published a book (700 pages / CD-ROM) about the origins of the space saga Star Wars ( ISBN 978-3-89660-314-2 ) .

Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ Gordon Comstock: Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image. In: The Guardian online . June 23, 2014, accessed October 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ John Knoll illustrates in Photoshop: The First Demo on YouTube functions of the first Photoshop version using the photo Jennifer in Paradise (English).
personal data
SURNAME Knoll, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Ann Arbor , Michigan