Douglas Trumbull
Douglas Trumbull
Douglas Huntley Trumbullis an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor. He contributed to, or was responsible for, the special photographic effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner and The Tree of Life, and directed the movies Silent Running and Brainstorm...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth8 April 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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american-director designed ibm kubrick layout logos
There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.
american-director contractor design ibm interface
IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
abstract american-director became bulk fairly hardcore less literal planets rockets
It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.
independent technology consistency
There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.
color light design
My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.
technology way
The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.
memories emotional brain
We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.
experience firsts film
When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.
perception fields computer
I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.