The pioneering visual effects artist Douglas Trumbull, best known for his work on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, has died at the age of 79.
Along with Con Pederson, Tom Howard and Wally Veevers, Trumbull was responsible for 2001’s boundary-pushing effects, including the eye-popping Star Gate sequence.
Always restless, though, Trumbull continued working on new film formats, including the Magicam realtime video compositing system.
Trumbull did manage to complete the film but it fared poorly at the box office on its release in 1983.