Bruce Logan, Hollywood VFX Artist, Dies at Age 78

Bruce Logan , an English cameraman and effects creative person onStar Wars : A New Hopeand other Hollywood motion-picture show , at 78 twelvemonth old .

In a statement to theHollywood Reporter , Logan ’s wife Mariana Campos - Logan discover he passed on April 10 follow a “ short sickness . ” Last week , Logan ’s girl Mary eulogise him onInstagram , remembering him as “ a rebel with a camera , a groundbreaker with a fib , and my personal hero . He was a visionary cinematographer , director , and optic effects pioneer . My pop did n’t just mold on movies — he made magic . ”

Born May 15 , 1946 , Logan lead off making alive films at 14 class one-time , which grew into visual effect by the time he was 19 . In2014 , he credited his father Campbell , who direct several classical play for BBC , with teach him how to employ a spilit - concealment , his first - ever special effect . “ My founding father told me that every frame of a film should be a everlasting motion picture , ” said Logan at the time . “ He ’s responsible for for all my cognition of film chronicle and for introducing me to the films of all the bully film director of the day , including Stanley Kubrick . ”

Starwars Bruce Logan

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Funnily enough , Kubrick was the first director to give Logan his first cover credit . At 19 , he was brought on as a visual effects creative person for2001 : A Space Odyssey , and worked under VFX supervisor Doug Trumbull . Across his 50 - year career , Logan did VFX work forBatman constantly , Airplane , and the aforementionedStar Wars , where he was part of the second unit squad that shoot the explosion of the Death Star . ( He ’s even technically part ofBlade Runner , as his work on the unreleasedZabriski Pointeappeared in the first step titles for Ridley Scott ’s sci - fi film . ) His motion-picture photography career include the firstTronandThe Incredible Shrinking Woman , plus medicine video for Prince and Madonna . He also briefly tried his hand at film directing with 1986’sVendetta .

Along with his wife and daughter , Logan is further survived by another child , Campbell .

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