According to foreign media reports, Douglas Trumbull, a master of science fiction visual effects and a well-known filmmaker, died of cancer at the age of 79. The news was announced on social media on February 8 by her daughter Amy.
Douglas Trumbull worked with directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott.
He is famous for his shocking visual effects of many famous sci-fi blockbusters such as "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Blade Runner", "Contact of the Third Kind", "Star Trek 1: Infinite Space" and so on.
In addition, he worked as a visual effects consultant for The Tree of Life and directed several films.
Douglas Trumbull has made outstanding contributions to sci-fi special effects films by developing the slit scanning photography process for Stanley Kubrick's films and inventing a variety of film shooting tools and techniques!
The old man went all the way, R.I.P