John Eaves was born on April 9,1962 and is a designer and illustrator best known for his work on the Star Trek franchise, starting with Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
12 Facts About John Eaves
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John Eaves served as a production illustrator on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Enterprise and was involved in all four Next Generation movies, specifically being responsible for the design of the Sovereign-class Enterprise-E.
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The first film Eaves worked on was Top Gun, as a model maker.
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John Eaves worked as a model maker on a variety of other films, including Spaceballs and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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John Eaves was introduced to Herman Zimmerman through John Eaves' friend Phil Edgerly.
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Zimmerman was looking for someone to put together a display of Enterprise, and John Eaves drew up a plan for the display.
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Zimmerman was impressed by the artwork, and asked John Eaves to join his design team for Star Trek Generations.
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At the time, John Eaves was working on a Boeing 747 model for the film Executive Decision.
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John Eaves spent the next twelve years working on one incarnation of Star Trek or another.
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John Eaves has most recently been known to have worked on Star Trek: Discovery and the 2009 Star Trek film, and he was involved with Perpetual Entertainment as a production consultant and illustrator on their now defunct MMOG, Star Trek Online, though many of his contributions remain intact within the version that was developed by Cryptic Studios.
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John Eaves provided the designs of the spaceships for the science fiction themed social network MyOuterSpace.
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John Eaves was in charge of art direction for Star Trek: Renegades, a fan produced pilot funded through Kickstarter and made by the creators of Star Trek: Of Gods and Men.