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* ''[[Star Trek]]''- They haven't been involved with every film in the series, but some of their best work have ended up with the more popular ones like ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'', ''[[Star Trek: First Contact|Star Trek First Contact]]'' and ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' (2009) (coincidence?)
* ''[[Back to The Future]]''
* ''[[Young Sherlock Holmes]]'' - Featured the first ever completely computer generated character.
* ''[[The Abyss]]'' - Had the first ever soft surface CG character. These techniques would later see more advanced use in [[James Cameron|James Cameron's]] next film Terminator 2.
* ''[[Terminator|Terminator 2, Terminator 3 & Terminator: Salvation]]'' - Judgement Day's [[Big Bad|T-1000]] would be the first instance of a main character being partially computer-generated and all the more awesome for it.
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* ''[[Hook]]''
* ''[[The Rocketeer (film)|The Rocketeer]]''
* ''[[Death Becomes Her]]'' - Their first attempt achieving realistic Human effects via computer.
* ''[[Total Recall]]''
* ''[[Casper (film)|Casper]]''
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* ''[[Amazing Stories (TV series)|Amazing Stories]]''
* ''[[Star Wars: Bounty Hunter]]''
They were also responsible for several noteworthy commercials for Coke, Energizer, Burger King and Nike amongst others, and (through [[Word of God]]), provided the visuals to [[DreamWorks]]' [[Vanity Plate]].
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* [[Animation Bump]]: More than you can imagine.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Most people knowledgeable in special effects know who John Knoll or Dennis Muren are.
* [[He Also Did]]: A lot of examples come from here, including:
** John Knoll co-created the editing software Photoshop with his brother and made some CG ships for ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''.
** Actor [[Heroes|Masi]] [[Get Smart (film)|Oka]] worked on several films<ref> including the ''Star Wars'' prequels, ''Hulk'' and ''The Perfect Storm''</ref> as an animator
** Director [[David Fincher]]<ref> of films like ''[[Fight Club]]'', ''[[Panic Room]]'', ''[[The Social Network]]'', the [[Troubled Production]] known as ''[[Alien]]³'' and ''[[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo]]''</ref> worked there for a few films before becoming a director.
** Art Vitello, director for shows like ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' and ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'' worked as an animator on ''[[Poltergeist (film)|Poltergeist]]''.
** Ken Ralston<ref> who did many projects such as ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' and ''[[Dragonslayer]]''</ref> would go on to establish [[Sony Pictures Imageworks]], responsible for many films like ''[[Stuart Little]]'', ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'' and the ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider Man]]'' films.
** Junior [[Myth Busters]] Grant Imahara and Tory Belleci, as well as Adam Savage, all worked there at different points in time.
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