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Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

~John Knoll

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You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop.

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There are things that I am nostalgic about from the 'good old days.' I loved motion control cameras, actually. I love the way they sound. I used to do a lot of miniature work, and it's still warranted, but it's done less often, largely for budgetary, schedule, and flexibility reasons.

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If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew - my shift was from 7 P.M. to about 5 A.M. In my free time, I was working on an idea with my older brother, a software engineer getting his doctorate at the University of Michigan. Ultimately, it developed into Photoshop.

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I think it's an important part of the visual effects supervisor's job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us all focused on trying to generate the best result. I'm not proprietary about, 'I would rather do this effect than let physical effects do it.' No, let's do the smartest thing for the movie.

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A spacecraft cockpit interior is a set where there are a lot of little techy bits, control panels and graphics displays, and other things that are kind of a job to manufacture well.

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Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

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I've always lived by the principle of find what you really enjoy doing and make it your career.

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When I was a kid, one of my hobbies was as model-maker.

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I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: October 6th, 1962

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