Juan-Luis Sanchez

Juan-Luis Sanchez, or Juan Luis Sanchez, is a digital artist working for Industrial Light And Magic who worked in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

Before working for ILM, Sanchez worked for Rythm and Hues, working as technical supervisor and later digital effects animator in movies such as Mousehunt (1997, Gore Verbinski), Babe: Pig in the City (1998, George Miller) and Mystery Men (1999, Kinka Usher). He also worked for Digital Domain as effects artist in The Grinch (2000, Ron Howard).

Sanchez began then working for ILM. He was the cloth simulator for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002, Chris Columbus) and also a digital model developer and builder for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002, George Lucas), where he cameoes as one of the jedi in the Temple. Due to his work, he can be seen in documentary From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in Star Wars Episode II (2002).

He has since worked for ILM as a digital artist in successess such as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003, Gore Verbinski) and its sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006, Gore Verbinski), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003, Jonathan Mostow), Van Helsing (2004, Stephen Sommers) or The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005, Andrew Adamson). Of course, he returned to the Star Wars saga for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2005, George Lucas) as digital clothing supervisor.