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by smburdick 757 days ago
John Knoll was the FX lead for the Star Wars prequels, and went on to direct Rogue One.

The behind the scenes documentaries for the prequels have aged well: https://youtu.be/da8s9m4zEpo?si=5y5gHUMxztwVzMny

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VFX supervisor, exec producer, and story by, but not director of Rogue One: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3748528/reference/
There's a multi-part series "Light & Magic" on ILM available on Disney+ that I really enjoyed.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19896784/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_...

I met his dad, who was a professor emeritus at University of Michigan's nuclear engineering department. He wrote the classic textbook on radiation detection.