Robert McCall (1919-2010)
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major_clangerRobert McCall, noted space artist and illustrator, has died at the age of 90. Still working until very recently, he may be most familiar to sf fans for the dramatic poster artwork for 2001.
His style, although in some ways rather fanciful with its vapour trails and near-cloudscape nebulas, was both distinctive and very influential. McCall was very skilled at making space look like an environment rather than just a backdrop, and his work arguably inspired a generation of space advocates and hard-sf writers.
His style, although in some ways rather fanciful with its vapour trails and near-cloudscape nebulas, was both distinctive and very influential. McCall was very skilled at making space look like an environment rather than just a backdrop, and his work arguably inspired a generation of space advocates and hard-sf writers.
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Date: 2010-02-28 10:53 pm (UTC)His illustrations include the complete spacecraft assembly (clearly from the Von Braun plan, because two ships are shown as opposed to a single ship in the IMIS proposal), the Mars Excursion Module, and a nuclear shuttle (NERVA, via the Boeing Propulsion Module design) shown with a space tug and crew module (from the 1969 Integrated Program Plan).