Special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull, whose work included “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Blade Runner,” died Monday. He was 79. Trumbull had moved from Los ...

Douglas Trumbull, a visual effects master who showed movie audiences indelible images of the future and deep space in films such as “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Con Pederson, the CGI pioneer who spent two and a half years alongside Douglas Trumbull creating the dazzling Oscar-winning visual ...

Douglas Trumbull, a visual effects master who showed movie audiences indelible images of the future and of space in films like “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Blade ...

Douglas Trumbull in a publicity portrait from the film Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Douglas Trumbull, the pioneering, pre-digital, effects wizard who brought to life the impossible landscapes ...

Douglas Trumbull, a director and visual effects master who translated filmmakers’ dreams into groundbreaking cinema, helping to craft the psychedelic “stargate” sequence in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” ...

Douglas Trumbull, the pioneering VFX master behind the groundbreaking science-fiction classics “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” has died. His daughter, Amy, shared the ...

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.