#douglas trumbull

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Blade Runner (1982)

#blade runner gif #80s sci-fi movies #harrison ford #ridley scott #rick deckard #edward james olmos #neo noir #special effects #douglas trumbull #richard yuricich #1980s #1982

[humanoidhistory]

Robert McCall concept art for Pyramid, an unproduced film by Douglas Trumbull.

#space #space art #robert mccall #douglas trumbull #film #illustration #concept art #scifi #science fiction

[retroscifiart]

Filming the mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

#close encounters of the third kind #miniatures #douglas trumbull #special effects

[bizarrobrain]

Silent Running by Raid71

#Raid71 #Douglas Trumbull #Silent Running #Science Fiction #Movie Posters

[tomoleary]

Robert McCall - early color concept art for the unrealized Douglas Trumbull film "Pyramid" (ca. 1970s)

#robert mccall #concept art #Pyramid #douglas trumbull

[machetelanding]

Douglas Trumbull behind the scenes of Blade Runner (1982)

#blade runner #science fiction #movies #1982 #1980s #harrison ford #ridley scott #douglas trumbull #hollywood #filmmaking #behind the scenes #special effects #model work #miniatures

[lamiaprigione]

The tree of life (2011)

#film #movie #the tree of life #malick #Emmanuel Lubezki #Alexandre Desplat #Douglas Trumbull #Brad Pitt #Sean Penn #Jessica Chastain #Hunter McCracken #amore #felicità #vita #love #life #happy

[theyboldlywent]

(Clockwise from the bottom) Model shop supervisor Steve Gawley, effects co-supervisor Ken Ralston, camera assistant Sel Eddy, and stagehand Bill Beck unpack the model of the refit Enterprise for use in the filming of Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan. The 1/120th scale model was originally used for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and had been built by Douglas Trumbull’s Magicom under the supervision of Jim Dow.  

According to Susan Sackett’s The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, building the Enterprise was a costly endeavour in time and money — it took 14 months and $150,000 to build (around $600k in 2022) — but advancements in plastics allowed the highly-detailed 8-foot-long ship to weigh in at just 85 pounds, making it quite a bit easier to position for filming. For comparison, Dow said, the Millennium Falcon miniature used in filming Star Wars had been roughly four feet by four feet in size and weighed over 300 pounds.

That said, it was still massive, with Industrial Light and Magic’s Ralston telling Kay Anderson from Cinefantastique: “I hate the Enterprise model. I think it’s made out of lead. It took eight guys to mount it for a shot and a forklift to move it around.”  (He would work out some of that anger with the ship later.)

It was also finicky enough that, Trumbull revealed in an interview with American Film magazine, ILM reached out to him to help get its lighting up and running again. This vindicated the special effects pioneer a bit; his company had underbid ILM by $1.5 million for the Star Trek II contract but had lost out because Paramount had wished to seal their relationship with Lucasfilm after the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

(Of note to some nitpickers like myself is the fact that some contemporary behind-the-scenes accounts, including the one from which this photo was taken, there is talk of the model being made of metal. There’s enough evidence to contradict this in various interviews from people who worked on the films over the years that I feel comfortable saying that they’re wrong.)

Photo scanned from my personal collection. It originally appeared in the July-August 1982 issue of Cinefantastique.

#star trek #star trek II the wrath of khan #star trek II #Douglas Trumbull #ken ralston #Industrial Light and Magic

[cinemajunkie70]

A very happy birthday in the afterlife to Douglas Trumbull!

#douglas trumbull

[cleowho]

Silent Running (Universal Pictures, 1972)(Dir. Douglas Trumbull)

#silent running #freeman lowell #bruce dern #dewey #mark persons #huey #cheryl sparks #steven brown #classic sf movie #douglas trumbull #1972

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Mothership - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

#close encounters of the third kind gif #ce3k #70s movies #70s sci-fi #concept art #ralph mcquarrie #greg jein #dennis muren #douglas trumbull #special effects #miniature models #practical effects #steven spielberg #seventies #1977 #gif #chronoscaph gif

[gatutor]

Christopher Walker-Natalie Wood "Proyecto Brainstorm" (Brainstorm) 1983, de Douglas Trumbull.

#Natalie Wood #Christopher Walker #Douglas Trumbull

[candide-autophobe]

Two pyramid designs - two movies :

Tyrell Corp. in Blade Runner (1982) / Ra’s mothership in Stargate (1994)

#scifi #Science fiction #movies #film #Stargate #Blade Runner #1994 #90s #1982 music #80s music #Douglas Trumbull #Pyramid #Pyramids #Pyramides #design #architecture #FX #SFX #VFX #cinema

[bizarrobrain]

Silent Running (1972) - Directed by Douglas Trumbull

#Douglas Trumbull #Silent Running #Science Fiction #Movie Posters

[sesiondemadrugada]

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979).

#star trek: the motion picture #star trek #robert wise #douglas trumbull #john dykstra #richard yuricich #todd c. ramsay #richard h. kline #harold michelson

[schlock-luster-video]

On December 22, 1983, Brainstorm debuted in Brazil.

#brainstorm #douglas trumbull #christopher walken #cliff robertson #cyberpunk #80s sci fi #80s science fiction #science fiction movies #dystopian science fiction #dystopian sci fi #sci fi movies #sci fi thriller #techno thriller #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film