'2001' and 'Blade Runner' visual effects wizard Douglas Trumbull has died at 79
Trumbull, who brought otherworldly landscapes to life pioneered physical, not digital, effects that catapulted audiences into hyperspace and became Hollywood's go-to guy for sci-fi imagery.
Douglas Trumbull, the pioneering, pre-digital, effects wizard who brought to life the impossible landscapes in 2001, A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and Star Trek: The Motion Picture has died at age 79.
Those roiling clouds before the spaceship's? They were white paint shot into a mixture of fresh and salt water. The light show that catapulted audiences into hyperspace in ? That was illuminated art shot through a slit in a rotating piece of sheet metal.
