John Knoll in an FMX Interview

Anyone who could not experience John Knoll’s talk about “Rogue One” live at the FMX Conference 2017 no longer needs to be sad. AWN conducted a longer interview with the VFX supervisor at FMX; here is the video.
John Knoll FMX-Interview

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Among other things, John Knoll talks about the challenges “Rogue One” presented for the supervisor’s job, or how the Death Star test scenes were created. He works as Chief Creative Officer & Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic.

Here is part 2 of the interview: