[smburdick]

John Knoll was the FX lead for the Star Wars prequels, and went on to direct Rogue One.

The behind the scenes documentaries for the prequels have aged well: https://youtu.be/da8s9m4zEpo?si=5y5gHUMxztwVzMny

[hondo77]

VFX supervisor, exec producer, and story by, but not director of Rogue One: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3748528/reference/

[dylan604]

There's a multi-part series "Light & Magic" on ILM available on Disney+ that I really enjoyed.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19896784/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_...

[acidburnNSA]

I met his dad, who was a professor emeritus at University of Michigan's nuclear engineering department. He wrote the classic textbook on radiation detection.