Pre-recorded Sessions: From 4 December 2020 | Live Sessions: 10 – 13 December 2020
4 – 13 December 2020
VFX Pros: Home Edition - At Home with VFX Pioneer Douglas Trumbull, VES
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Douglas Trumbull, VFX legend and pioneer, United States of America
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Abstract: In this exclusive conversation, we’ll talk with Trumbull about his portfolio of science fiction, alien planets and spaceships that caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick…realizing 2001: A Space Odyssey’s spaceship ballet, Blade Runner’s foggy future, the blooming spaceships of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the momentous introduction to the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek: The Motion Picture…his love for big screen exhibition…and his inventive work reimaging the cinema experience at his prefabricated theater concept, the Magi Pod…
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A self-confessed “geeky creative,” Doug Trumbull is a VFX legend and pioneer, who has been at the forefront of visual effects for decades. He was responsible for the dazzling special photographic effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey and was the Visual Effects Supervisor for such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Blade Runner, each of which earned him Academy Award nominations. Among his many accolades, Trumbull is the recipient of the Academy’s coveted Gordon E. Sawyer as well as Scientific and Engineering Award for the creation of the 65mm Showscan camera system., the VES Georges Méliès Award and was one of the inaugural inductees into the VES Hall of Fame.
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