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The lightship which Knoll rendered as a CGI.
John Knoll is a visual effects artist, best known for his work on the Star Wars Special Editions and prequel films at Industrial Light & Magic.
He also worked on several Star Trek episodes and films. He was the visual effects supervisor on Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact. He had earlier designed the warp effect of the USS Enterprise-D for Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is also believed to have inserted a small digital model of the Millennium Falcon into the Battle of Sector 001 in First Contact.
He also created the acclaimed CGI model of the Bajoran lightship for the popular third season Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Explorers". He also rendered it again for the fourth season episode "Accession". In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, he notes that, although he was busy with Star Trek Generations and Mission: Impossible, he found the time to create the lightship CGI model as he felt it was a cool design.
Knoll has also worked on other films such as Willow, The Abyss, The Hunt for Red October, Mission: Impossible, Deep Blue Sea and the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.
Knoll and his brother Thomas created Adobe Photoshop. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly named John Knoll as the 10th Smartest Person in Hollywood. [1]
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