American - Artist | October 6, 1962 -
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.
John Knoll
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Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
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ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.
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You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop.
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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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Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible.
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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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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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'Pacific Rim,' for me, was a chance to touch on those old Toho monster movies. 'Godzilla' and 'Rodan'... and then 'Ultraman' and 'Robotech' and all those kinds of things.
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Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.
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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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