De naam Grant McCune zal je waarschijnlijk totaal niks zeggen, maar het werk van deze special effects designer zijn legendarisch. Zo is hij verantwoordelijk voor de haai van Jaws, het ontwerk van RD2, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Caddy Shack, Space Balls, Ghostbusters II en nog veel en veel meer. Hij heeft voor zijn werk diverse Oscars in ontvangst mogen nemen, deze legende is op drie en zestig jarige leeftijd overleden aan de gevolgen van kanker.

He was one of George Lucas's original team of F/X wizards who in 1978 took home an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (which he shared with John Dykstra) for his work on R2-D2 and all those wonderful creatures from the 1977 Star Wars. (In addition to his work as chief modelmaker for the groundbreaking film, he also appeared as a Death Star Gunner.) Grant McCune died of complications from cancer on Monday. He was 67. Described as a "quiet but crucial" innovator who specialized in models and miniatures, Grant McCune was one of Hollywood's best known special and visual effects artists pumping out designs for over 100 films, spanning decades of sci-fi and action classics, from Star Trek: The Motion Picture to Ghostbusters II to Speed to Batman Forever to Spider-Man 2.