Bruce Logan, Hollywood VFX Artist, Dies at Age 78

Bruce Logan, an English cinematographer and influential artist Star Wars: A new hope And other Hollywood movies, at the age of 78.

In a statement Hollywood reporterLogan’s wife Mariana Campos-Logan revealed that he passed April 10 after a “short illness”. Last week, Logan’s daughter Mary made her audible Instagram“Remembering the camera with the camera, a pioneer in the story and as my personal hero, he was a visionary cinematographer, director and visual effect of visual effects. My father not just worked on movies – he did magic.”

Born on May 15, 1946, Logan began making an animated film at the age of 14, which he turned into a visual effect at the age of 19. 2014He credited his Father Campbell, who directed a number of classical plays for the BBC, is a special impact for the first time to appoint a Split-Screen. “My father told me that every frame of a movie should be a perfect picture,” Logan said at that time. “He is responsible for all my knowledge about the history of the film and to introduce all the great directors of the day with Stanley Kubrick.”

Funny enough, Kubrick is the first director who gave Logan its first screen credit. At the age of 19, he was brought as a visual effects artist 2001: A Space Odyssey, And VFX supervisor worked under Doug Trumbul. Throughout his 50 -year career, Logan has worked on VFX Batman forever, aircraft, And the aforementioned Star Wars, Where he was part of the second unit team that portrayed The Death Star’s explosion. (He is even technically part of Blade runner, As his work of unpublished At the Jabrisky Point Ridley appeared in the inaugural headlines for Cy-Fi Film of Ridley Scott)) his cinematography first included in his career Traon And Incredible shrinking woman, Plus Music Video for Prince and Madonna. He also tried his hand briefly in the direction of the film with the 1986 decade Vendeta.

In addition to his wife and daughter, Logan is alive by another child Campbell.

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