John Knoll

John Knoll is an Academy Award winning motion picture visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic. He won the 2007 Oscar for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for his work on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. He was also a speaker at the TED 2008 Conference.

1. Born: 1962
2. Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Michigan
3. Created Photoshop with his brother in 1990
4. Ranked #10 on Entertainment Weekly's "The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood" for 2007

• Wired.com: TED Conference to Tackle Origins of Evil, Theories of Everything (February 26, 2008)

• Variety: "Digital water sends vfx sparks flying" (February 6, 2008)

• Computerworld: Tech Bits: Now for some real user power (July 16, 2007)

• Slashdot: John Knoll on CGI, Tron And 25 Years of Change (July 11, 2007)

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