Bruce Logan, Hollywood VFX Artist, Dies at Age 78

Bruce Logan, an English cinematographer and results artist on Star Wars: A New Hope and different Hollywood movies, at 78 years outdated.

In an announcement to the Hollywood Reporter, Logan’s spouse Mariana Campos-Logan revealed he handed on April 10 following a “brief sickness.” Final week, Logan’s daughter Mary eulogized him on Instagram, remembering him as “a insurgent with a digital camera, a pioneer with a narrative, and my private hero. He was a visionary cinematographer, director, and visible results pioneer. My dad didn’t simply work on films—he made magic.”

Born Might 15, 1946, Logan started making animated movies at 14 years outdated, which grew into visible results by the point he was 19. In 2014, he credited his father Campbell, who directed a number of classical dramas for BBC, with educating him easy methods to make use of a spilit-screen, his first-ever particular impact. “My father informed me that each body of a movie ought to be an ideal image,” mentioned Logan on the time. “He’s accountable for all my information of movie historical past and for introducing me to the movies of all the good administrators of the day, together with Stanley Kubrick.”

Funnily sufficient, Kubrick was the primary director to offer Logan his first display credit score. At 19, he was introduced on as a visible results artist for 2001: A House Odyssey, and labored beneath VFX supervisor Doug Trumbull. Throughout his 50-year profession, Logan did VFX work for Batman Without end, Airplane, and the aforementioned Star Wars, the place he was a part of the second unit group that filmed the explosion of the Dying Star. (He’s even technically a part of Blade Runner, as his work on the unreleased Zabriski Pointe appeared within the opening titles for Ridley Scott’s sci-fi movie.) His cinematography profession contains the primary Tron and The Unbelievable Shrinking Lady, plus music movies for Prince and Madonna. He additionally briefly tried his hand at movie directing with 1986’s Vendetta.

Alongside together with his spouse and daughter, Logan is additional survived by one other little one, Campbell.

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