John Knoll

John Knoll is a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic. He is a three-time Academy Award nominee for his work on visual effects, and co-created the digital image-processing program Adobe Photoshop. He made cameo appearances as Rya Kirsch in Episode I, as Tannon Praji and the Coruscant fire fighter pilot in Episode III.

In addition to his extensive visual effects work on the prequels, Knoll created the opening crawls for all three films on his personal computer.

His first book, Creating the Worlds of Star Wars: 365 Days was released on October 1, 2005.

He also worked with George Lucas on the 1988 film Willow, on which he served as a served as ILM's animation camera operator.