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A Conversation with John Knoll (1998)

• scandox 9y ago
  > As I said, when I was a kid, one of my hobbies was model making. I got to be fairly good at that and it got me into the industry. But when model making turned into a profession, it sort of killed it as a hobby. It's not much fun to build models all day, then go home and build more models. > Since I was interested in motion control, I got a computer and started building motion-control systems for it. That became my new hobby. Because I knew people who were shooting motion-control elements with the models I was building, I began getting work as a camera assistant on motion-control stages. Then I got hired as a motion-control camera assistant at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). Pretty soon I was doing motion control full time and its appeal as a hobby was greatly diminished. > I started at ILM in 1986 and had just gotten a Macintosh, my first sophisticated computer, and started writing little graphics programs as my new hobby. ...And created Photoshop. You know I think this guy should definitely be encouraged to change hobbies as often as possible.
  • symfoniq 9y ago
    Rumor has it that he decided to take up writing as a hobby, which resulted in a movie script called "Rogue One."