Colin Cantwell, a fame in his field. Clarin Image File
Colin Cantwell, the technician who designed the X-Wing ships and the TIE-Fighter series starwarsdied on 90 years in Denver, Colorado, on Friday, May 21 for reasons not yet disclosed, although news of his death has not been noticed until now.
Born in San Francisco, California, in 1932, Cantwell was at the same time architect, engineer and writer and his multiple abilities have allowed him to produce amazing special effects for movies of Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick and George Lucasthen went through NASA in the ’60s.
Cantwell, American designer of the saga’s iconic spaceships starwarsdied at home, his companion reported I saw Dall in the middle The Hollywood Reporter. Lovers of space, architecture and animation, the designer left beautiful special effects made in the early ’80s for well-known directors.
“The ships of” The return of the Jedi “were created by Colin Cantwell. Photos Archivo Clarín
In 1984 he was nominated for a Bafta Award for his special effects for War gamesa well-known film John Badham that he investigated aspects of networks before the Internet came and he had a juvenile in his cast Matthew Broderick.
galaxy universe
He was also fond of the galaxy universe from an early age, a taste acquired thanks to the many books in his elementary library, which he swallowed in his very long recovery, because he had tuberculosis.
“2001, A Space Odyssey”, by Kubrick, in which he also worked.
Colin Cantwell then enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he honed his skills while interested in animation. After graduation, he worked for Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA in the 1960s, when the United States and the Soviet Union were at the center of the space race.
In 1984, Cantwell was nominated at the 37th British Academy Film Awards for Best Special Visual Effects.s For his work. Y return of the jedi won the award.
A moment from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
In the late sixties, the “mad engineer” was identified. george lucaswho entrusted him with the task of designing prototypes of some of the ships for his next major project: – Star Wars: Episode IV-A New Hope. The artist created the iconic X-wing starfighter by taking inspiration from “a dart thrown at a bullseye in an English pub,” he told The Associated Press at the time. Guardian.
Rebel starships originally had wheels in their landing gear. This is because Luke thought to take the Spanish Air Forcedress up your fighter jets F-104 as rebel fighters and they take a taxi and leave from a runway. This idea was discarded, as it was considered too expensive and it was Cantwell who replaced the wheels with landing pads.
A very young Matthew Broderick in John Badham’s “War Games”.
Cantwell’s film credits include special effects on 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), by Stanley Kubrick, Close Meeting of the Third Kind (1977), by Steven Spielberg, and the aforementioned War games (1983), among other films.
After that, Luke offered him the position of director at Industrial Light and Magic. Cantwell refused. saying he doesn’t want to be “tied up”, doing the exact same thing over and over.
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Source: Clarin