Bruce Logan, Hollywood VFX Artist, Dies at Age 78

Bruce Logan, an English cinematographer and effects creator connected Star Wars: A New Hope and different Hollywood films, astatine 78 years old.

In a connection to the Hollywood Reporter, Logan’s woman Mariana Campos-Logan revealed helium passed connected April 10 pursuing a “short illness.” Last week, Logan’s girl Mary eulogized him connected Instagram, remembering him arsenic “a rebel with a camera, a pioneer with a story, and my idiosyncratic hero. He was a visionary cinematographer, director, and ocular effects pioneer. My dada didn’t conscionable enactment connected movies—he made magic.”

Born May 15, 1946, Logan began making animated films astatine 14 years old, which grew into ocular effects by the clip helium was 19. In 2014, helium credited his begetter Campbell, who directed respective classical dramas for BBC, with teaching him however to employment a spilit-screen, his first-ever peculiar effect. “My begetter told maine that each framework of a movie should beryllium a cleanable picture,” said Logan astatine the time. “He’s liable for each my cognition of movie past and for introducing maine to the films of each the large directors of the day, including Stanley Kubrick.”

Funnily enough, Kubrick was the archetypal manager to springiness Logan his archetypal surface credit. At 19, helium was brought connected arsenic a ocular effects creator for 2001: A Space Odyssey, and worked nether VFX supervisor Doug Trumbull. Across his 50-year career, Logan did VFX enactment for Batman Forever, Airplane, and the aforementioned Star Wars, where helium was portion of the 2nd portion squad that filmed the detonation of the Death Star. (He’s adjacent technically portion of Blade Runner, as his enactment connected the unreleased Zabriski Pointe appeared successful the opening titles for Ridley Scott’s sci-fi film.) His cinematography vocation includes the archetypal Tron and The Incredible Shrinking Woman, plus music videos for Prince and Madonna. He besides concisely tried his manus astatine movie directing with 1986’s Vendetta.

Along with his woman and daughter, Logan is further survived by different child, Campbell.

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