Jon Farhat is a motion picture visual effects supervisor and second unit director who was nominated at the 67th Academy Awards for the film "The Mask", in the category of Best Visual Effects.
 His nomination was shared with Tom Bertino, Scott Squires and Steve 'Spaz' Williams.
 He was nominated for two BAFTA awards for Visual Effects for "The Mask" and "The Nutty Professor" Prior production roles included art director, matte painting, conceptual illustrator and storyboard artist dating back to 1992.
 Between 2012-2014, he served briefly as executive vice president of Red Digital Cinema Camera Company.
 A commercial helicopter pilot, Farhat pioneered research and developed systems and flight planning interfaces for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, specializing in fully autonomous flight systems.
Harrison Ellenshaw (born Peter Ellenshaw, July 20, 1945 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American matte painter, following his British-born father Peter Ellenshaw.
 He started his career at Walt Disney Studios.
 He later joined George Lucas's effects studio Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), where he produced many of the matte visual effects backgrounds for the films "Star Wars" (1977) and "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980).
 He then returned to Disney to work on the film "Dick Tracy" (1990), and eventually headed Disney Studio's effects department, Buena Vista Visual Effects (BVVE).
 He was also visual effects supervisor for "Tron" (1982), where he had the distinction of being the first person to have that credit in a film.
Wes Ford Takahashi is an American visual effects animator and animation supervisor who has worked for motion picture visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic.
 He is known for his special effects work on numerous films; his efforts include animating the time travel sequences for all three films in the "Back to the Future" trilogy, as well as animating the "boy on the moon" in the DreamWorks logo.
 He is the former head of ILM's animation department.
Kenneth "Ken" Ralston (born 1954) is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect Supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks.
 Ralston began his career at the seminal commercial animation and visual effects company, Cascade Pictures in Hollywood, where he worked on over 150 advertising campaigns in the early 1970s.
 In 1976, he was hired at Industrial Light & Magic by Dennis Muren to help George Lucas create the effects for "Star Wars".
 He remained in ILM for 20 years before joining Sony Pictures Imageworks as president.
 Ralston is best known for his work in the films of Robert Zemeckis.
Christopher Townsend is a visual effects supervisor.
 He has worked in the visual effects industry for over 20 years.
 For over a decade, he was an artist and supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic, and in 2007 became a freelance visual effects supervisor.
 He worked on "Journey to the Center of the Earth", the first ever stereoscopic motion picture shot and released digitally, "Wolverine", "Ninja Assassin", "" and "".
 He was nominated for a BAFTA and an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work on "Iron Man 3", oversaw nearly 3000 shots on "" and was the overall supervisor for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
 2".
 In 2015 he was given an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree by his alma mater, Coventry University.
Tom Bertino is a professional animator, formerly Animation Director and Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic.
Gregory S. Butler (August 18, 1971, Suffield, Connecticut) is a visual effects supervisor.
 He graduated from Suffield High School in 1989 and afterwards entered Hampshire College.
 Despite his initial plans to study history, a work-study job with the audiovisual equipment in the library made him interested in film production.
 Butler graduated in 1993 with a major in film, television and theater design.
 Afterwards he moved to California to work for Industrial Light and Magic for 9 months, where after intern work he managed to become an assistant in the effects department, starting with assistant credits in "The Mask" and "Forrest Gump".
 Following a job at Rocket Science Games until the company's bankruptcy in 1996, Butler went to Tippett Studio and did effects work in "Starship Troopers" and "My Favorite Martian", rising up to a technical director job, and Cinesite for "Practical Magic".
 While reluctant at the requirement of moving to New Zealand, Butler was convinced by his writer-actor brother Jared to jump at the opportunity of working for Weta Digital in "The Lord of the Rings".
 His biggest achievement was working in the creation of Gollum.
 Butler also worked as a computer graphics supervisor on "I, Robot" before an invitation to work as an effects supervisor for the Moving Picture Company, in London.
 He continues on MPC, but is now on the Vancouver office.
 On January 24, 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Award for "".
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded in May 1975 by George Lucas.
 It is a division of the film production company, Lucasfilm, which Lucas founded, and was created when Lucas began production of the film "Star Wars".
 It is also the original founder company of the animation studio Pixar.
Richard Bluff is an English special effects supervisor.
 Known for his works in Disney's visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) as a digital matte artist and visual effects supervisor in acclaimed films such as "" (2005), "The Island" (2005), "Transformers" (2007-11), "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (2008), "Star Trek" (2009), "Avatar" (2009), "The Avengers" (2012), "Cloud Atlas" (2012) "Pacific Rim" (2013), "The Big Short" (2015) and "Doctor Strange" (2016), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects nomination at the 89th Academy Awards.
 He previously worked at Blur Studio as digital artist.
John Knoll (born October 6, 1962) is an American visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer (CCO) at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM).
 One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop (along with his brother, Thomas Knoll), he has also worked as visual effects supervisor on the "Star Wars" prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy.
 He also served as ILM's visual effects supervisor for "Star Trek Generations" and "", as well as the "" series.
 Along with Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall, Knoll and the trios work on "" earned them the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

Question: Tom Bertino is a professional animator, formerly Animation Director and Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded in May 1975 by who?
Answer: George Lucas