The visual effects artist Bruce Logan, who has died aged 78 after a short illness, was barely out of his teens when he supplied the finishing touch to what is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time: 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The director, Stanley Kubrick, asked the greenhorn technician, then working under Kubrick’s VFX supremo Douglas Trumbull, to supervise the title sequence in which the sun rises above the Earth and moon, to the fanfares of Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra.
