A life-long employee of ILM, it comes as no surprise that he has worked on a large number of productions of that company, including several Star Trek live-action productions. In 2005 ILM, in order to concentrate more fully on the digital techniques for creating visual effects, such as CGI, decided to split off the physical production departments for them to eventually become a separate company, Kerner Optical. Hill, as a specialized physical object camera man, moved over to that company.