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Much-respected figure in visual effects was also known for work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Tree of Life

 

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The pioneering visual effects artist Douglas Trumbull, best known for his work on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, has died at the age of 79.

 

His death was announced by his daughter Amy Trumbull, in which she said the “absolute genius and a wizard” died on Monday after “a major two-year battle with cancer, a brain tumor and a stroke”.

 

She added: “My sister Andromeda and I got to see him on Saturday and tell him that [we] love him, and we got to tell him to enjoy and embrace his journey into the Great Beyond.”

 

 

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Truly one of the greats. Close Encounters is my favorite movie ever and I somehow didn’t realize he did the miniatures until he passed. His absence from cinema is already greatly missed.

 

 

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