Colin Cantwell, the visible results artist behind lots of the iconic spacecraft within the unique "Star Wars" film, has died on the age of 90.
In an announcement on his Fb web page Sunday, Cantwell's accomplice, Sierra Dall, mentioned he died on Saturday at his dwelling in Colorado.
"Colin Cantwell handed away peacefully at his dwelling with me by his facet. I'll miss him enormously," she wrote.
Tributes flooded in from followers and celebrities, together with "Curb Your Enthusiasm" director David Mandel, who confirmed off an early X-Wing illustration from his personal assortment on Twitter.
Cantwell was finest recognized for designing and establishing prototypes of the X-Wing, Star Destroyer, TIE Fighter, Demise Star and different ships for "Star Wars: A New Hope," the primary film within the blockbuster sci-fi franchise.
In keeping with his web site, he designed the spaceships used within the 1977 film two years earlier, constructing the fashions and photographing them after they have been accomplished.
Cantwell's web site additionally famous that he was UCLA's first animation graduate, after persuading the college so as to add an animation main.
Earlier than Hollywood got here calling he fulfilled his childhood ardour for house by working at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, creating academic applications on current developments in house exploration.
Whereas at NASA he fed CBS Information anchor Walter Cronkite updates in regards to the astronauts' progress throughout the 1969 moon touchdown, which Cronkite then relayed to the TV viewers.
Away from the "Star Wars" franchise, Cantwell's big-screen contributions embody particular photographic results for "2001: A Area Odyssey," technical dialogue for "Shut Encounters of the Third Type" and laptop graphics design advisor for "WarGames."
In 2014, an public sale of a few of his private "Star Wars" artifacts, together with some spacecraft designs, raised greater than US$118,000, the Denver Publish reported.
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