{"id":18191,"date":"2013-05-28T07:59:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=9305"},"modified":"2013-05-28T07:59:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:59:36","slug":"congrats-to-john-knoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/congrats-to-john-knoll\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to John Knoll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dang\u2026 how strong must your r\u00e9sum\u00e9 be that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/feature-stories\/photoshop-profile-thomas-john-knoll-10\/\">Photoshop co-creator<\/a>&#8221; doesn&#8217;t even get mentioned? Congratulations to John Knoll on his <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2013\/digital\/news\/industrial-light-magic-ups-john-knoll-to-chief-creative-officer-exclusive-1200484450\/\">promotion to Chief Creative Officer of Industrial Light &amp; Magic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Knoll\u2019s credits as vfx supervisor include the first three \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d pictures, the \u201cStar Wars\u201d prequel trilogy, two \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d pics, two \u201cStar Trek\u201d films and the upcoming \u201cPacific Rim.\u201d He won a vfx Oscar for the second \u201cPirates\u201d pic and was co-leader of ILM\u2019s production team on the Oscar-winning animated feature \u201cRango.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFolks tend to get very busy on their own shows,\u201d said Knoll, \u201cand don\u2019t have time to periodically share with everybody else what they\u2019re working on. \u2018Have you thought about that?\u2019 We have this wealth of talent that if we\u2019re smart we leverage on all projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My friend Philip worked at ILM and said, &#8220;It&#8217;s really intimidating to use Photoshop in front of a guy who <em>wrote<\/em>\u00a0Photoshop.&#8221; On the upside, he reported, if a lens flare doesn&#8217;t look good, John will just go and write you a new one.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s John re-creating <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.adobe.com\/watch\/photoshop-20th-anniversary\/photoshop-the-first-demo\/\">his original demo of Photoshop 1.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dang\u2026 how strong must your r\u00e9sum\u00e9 be that &#8220;Photoshop co-creator&#8221; doesn&#8217;t even get mentioned? Congratulations to John Knoll on his promotion to Chief Creative Officer of Industrial Light &amp; Magic: Knoll\u2019s credits as vfx supervisor include the first three \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d pictures, the \u201cStar Wars\u201d prequel trilogy, two \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d pics, two \u201cStar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}