tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23187025964191713822024-03-07T20:37:28.834-08:00DUNE - Special EditionA blog detailing My very slow attempts to recreate the vehicles, spaceships and environments from the 1984 David Lynch film DUNE and replace the original effects with new ones in a "Special Edition" fan edit.Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-38496476374366257342024-02-04T22:45:00.000-08:002024-02-04T22:45:38.348-08:00Imperial Ornithopter Concept<p> So I also played around with an Imperial 'thopter to appear briefly during the exterior shots of the Emperor's palace on Kaitain, based on concept art by Ville Ericsson?<br />With the still work-in-progress adaptable folding wing design from the Atreides 'thopter.<br />The other issue of course is the Atreides 'thopter is also Gold.<br /><br /><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv2VQPwkksV5MVlUsdZpB1k8jl1VLbXiDVe7OKaLDzccgW1JK-nYsWumCSCjUgW0IQ4dKT01_XU6wn4lTEAUEBisNSm0n-DSUkJxuXHklh_935ggMmP6rlbpUgI8-qt9xyJ6opK0i3EcAPwVu5m3HLlS-si5vHFiKjzdCexBNKvtpvvEeN4X3Wl99pKpo/s3840/DUNE_Imperial_Thopter_Angle_F.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Here is a work-in-progress of a new version of the shot where the Sardaukar rush forth from the Emperor's steel tent and prepare to engage the approaching Fremen.<br />
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The original shot seems almost as if it was a last minute rush job - It doesn't look like one of the many clever <i>Emilio Ruiz del Rio</i> shots (Whereby a miniature was filmed on a high platform to carefully match live action filmed at the same time.). This looks like a miniature was was filmed and then the Sardaukar were composited onto it later - but that the live action portion didn't have enough lighting on it, leading to the Sardaukar becoming a dark blob in the center of the frame. This is exacerbated by the greenish tint to the live action which doesn't match the surrounding miniature.</div>
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The searchlights have been added in post as well and don't seem to really be coming from where the Emperor's ship would be positioned at the top of the tent.<br />
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Referring to the book it seems that there are a large number of Harkonnen vehicles present as well...<br />
<i>"He swung the telescope to the far side of the Arrakeen landing field now, to the Harkonnen frigates lined up there with a CHOAM company banner waving gently from its staff on the ground beneath them..."</i><br />
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Right now, the Sardaukar are temporary models and they are not yet moving quite right. I will probably have more of them coming forth as well as the Steel Tent contains 5 Legions of them (Per the book).<br />
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From WIKIPEDIA: <i>"A typical legion of this period had 5,120 legionaries as well as a large number of camp followers, servants and slaves. Legions could contain as many as 6,000 fighting men when including the auxiliaries, although much later in Roman history the number was reduced to 1,040 to allow for greater mobility."</i><br />
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So the Emperor could have as many as 30,000 men or as few as 5,200. Going with the typical number of 5120 per legion that would mean 25,600 Sardaukar are in this structure.</div>
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However in the film the Emperor states. "I want 50 legion of Sardaukar on Arrakis at once!". He obviously doesn't bring them all down with him!</div>
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Harkonnen oil burner - Work in progress. The 3D model still needs a load of work still<br />
I feel the shots in the original film really don't come close to the production art (And the compositing is ropy at best).<br />
Still working out the colour scheme for the environment - though Harko City will still remain the same blue & green colour.Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-384885455404245542017-03-11T21:02:00.001-08:002017-03-11T21:02:38.776-08:00Some minor updates to some of the VFX shots I am working on...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All shots are still very much work in progress, but several were done for an upcoming fan-edit by another editor.Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-38878806538866644832016-10-22T16:34:00.000-07:002016-10-22T16:34:07.810-07:00Spice SilosWas taking a look through the DUNE blu-ray extra materials recently and noticed a cool pencil sketch that features a spice storage yard, so have whipped up a quick model and some very temporary textures. I had originally used the spice silo design from the DUNE 2000 video game, but would rather use original designs developed for the film where possible.<br />
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Spice factory and storage area as viewed from the palace at Arrakeen.</div>
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<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-77270775485433453352016-10-18T23:01:00.000-07:002016-10-18T23:01:08.153-07:00DUNE WeaponsHere are all the untextured weapons I have made so far (From left to right: Sardaukar Rifle and pistol, Harkonnen Rifle and Pistol and Atreides Rifle and Pistol) - completed the modeling on the Harkonnen pistol yesterday. I also went back in and made a few minor geometry tweaks on the other weapons and scaled them all to suitable size.<br />
Still have to UV map them and do the texture/shader work - that probably won't happen for a while.<br />
Also have the Fremen weaponry to work on - Crysknife, Needle Gun and Weirding Module.<br />
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I only have one good reference images of the prop and some stills from the movie to work from.<br />
Still need to tweak some of the details/proportions.<br />
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Examining the movie stills, it looks like the prop was hard to hold as the actors resort to holding onto the thick "wires" above the stock and the handle at the side (not visible in this render). There seems to be some confusion among the actors about which way up to hold the rifle - When Piter arrives and walks down the stairs all the guards are holding the guns with the wires facing down, while the two guards in the Baron's room that bring in the boy are holding the rifles wire size up.<br />
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Also IMHO, the magazine is waaaaay to small for a weapon with five barrels!<br />
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I'm still quietly working away on this project. A few bits here, a few bits there. Currently have been trying to build a modular Harkonnen environment based almost entirely on Piter's arrival and the introduction of the Baron and his nephews. There's not much else to work from - just the one redressed set later on when Thufir has been imprisoned.<div>
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That said, so far I have a couple of different walls, wall corners and ends, floor panels and grating and then some props - notably the TWO types of Harkonnen chair (Though I only have the one side angle of the chair Rabban sits in) and the two tables (The one with the flowers on it and the small one next to Rabban with the squood on it), and the small wall lights.</div>
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Also noticed for the first time while reviewing some still from the movie, that one of the Harkonnen tropps carries a sort of odd looking "battle standard" - its the black pole on the right of the image with the "C" shapes at the top.</div>
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And there was an auction of the book of storyboards from the movie as well (I believe it was from a series of reductions of the storyboards made for the VFX team), so I was able to get a few still from that... though I would love to see the whole thing and put all the images online.</div>
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<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-29955901224128402032016-03-29T22:10:00.000-07:002016-03-29T22:14:38.503-07:00The Emperor's "Selamlik" - Work In ProgressFrank Herbert uses the term "Selamlik" to describe the metal "tent" that the Emperor's uses as his base while dealing with the Arrakis affair.<br />
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"The <b>selamlik</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>: <span lang="tr"><i>selamlık</i></span>) was the portion of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace" title="Palace">palace</a> or house reserved for men; as contrasted with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraglio" title="Seraglio">seraglio</a>, which is reserved for women and forbidden to men.<br />
Selamlik was also a portion of the household reserved for the guests (from the root word <i>selam</i>, "greeting"), similar to the <i>andronites</i> (courtyard of men) in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Ancient Greece</a>, where guests would be welcomed by the males of the household. The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harem" title="Harem">harem</a></i> is the portion for the family."<br />
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The description from the novel:<br />
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"It wasn't the lighter that excited Stilgar's awe, Paul knew, but the construction for which the lighter was only the centerpost. A single metal hutment, many stories tall, reached out in a thousand-meter circle from the base of the lighter - a tent composed of interlocking metal leaves - the temporary lodging place for five legions of Sardaukar and His Imperial Majesty, the Padishah Empror Shaddam IV."<br />
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Other details include Gurney Halleck's observation that it has 9 levels (Instead of only 6 in the movie version).<br />
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Below you can see the original model being prepped for filming, how it appears in the movie - as seen by Paul through the oil lenses of his binoculars, then two of My work in progress renders, the first matching the same angle as the movie version but with the camera pulled further back to permit visibility of the entire structure and the second render revealing more of the environment, including two Spice Harvesters and the Baron Harkonnen's ship.<br />
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I am looking at rebuilding all the DUNE 3D models I have made to take advantage of the improvements in 3D since I first made them - in particular to take advantage of new more realistic rendering engines that should help to take the CG curse off of the images.<br />
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As a side note, the image with the sand-crawlers took 37 minutes 53 seconds to render out on My machine at home, while a render at work during My lunch break, took only 7 minutes 19 seconds!<br />
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<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-26983593658410980372015-02-16T08:33:00.001-08:002015-02-16T08:33:33.007-08:00Piter's Arrival - The Harkonnen Tram sequenceOne of the more poorly edited sequences in the movie revolves around Piter De Vries arrival at the Harkonnen capital by tram. As depicted in the movie it is a really confusing set of shots which also includes some terrible compositing and blue screen work.<br />
Only the final shot with the matte painting of the interior of the massive industrial complex is well done.<br />To this end I have been working away on building the two major features from that sequence - the massive industrial building and the creepy "oil burners" with the strange baby faces which are barely seen in the movie.<br />
This is an update on what I had previously done in an attempt to make it more "movie" accurate given what references I have of it. <br />
Still a lot of work to be don on it to match the model better and the face is nowhere near correct yet, but the elements are starting to come together.<br />
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<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-91898418868334635282015-02-15T23:50:00.002-08:002015-02-15T23:50:48.322-08:00Just for fun I decided to make some card back mock ups for "Dune SE" action figures, using a modified version of the original Kenner star wars card back - since I always felt those were some of the best looking action figure card backs.<br />Also found some pictures of the original LJN action figures and some custom made ones.<br />There are different colour backgrounds depending on which faction they belong to.<br />
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Here is some early "Previz" animation I have been working on to try and work out a better way to handle the scenes of Guild Navigator folding space.<br />
I would like to try and stay close to what was originally envisioned for the sequence, while keeping what is going on clear to the audience.Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-9141136636512661912013-10-18T22:53:00.002-07:002013-10-18T23:08:11.287-07:00Sardaukar Lasgun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As a follow up to the Sardaukar pistol I made recently, here is the Lagun / Rifle. It's a fairly low rez model with only basic texturing, not meant to be viewed up close, but should hold up fine for distant shots on the CG Sardaukar.<br />
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I only had the one reference image to work from (The prop looks pretty beat up as well), so it is probably missing details. If anyone has better images of the prop, I'd be interested in seeing them. A search of the net revealed nothing new.<br />
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Just finished up a low resolution version of the Sardaukar pistol - for use by eventual CG Sardaukar - so I didn't include some of the smaller details, though I may add them later.<br />
To My knowledge this prop doesn't appear in the film, nor have I found any examples of it as concept art. However, it WAS a toy made by LJN (Called the Sardaukar Laser Gun) along with the Fremen Tarpel Gun (Which seems to have been based on the concept art for the Fremen needle gun) - Next will be the Sardaukar Lasgun/Rifle you can see in one of the examples below (along with the pistol).<br />
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<br />Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-53947651614733115282013-10-13T23:23:00.000-07:002013-10-13T23:23:00.112-07:00An reanalysis of David Lynch's DUNEIt's an older review by John Kenneth Muir of the Blu-ray from 2010, but it is always interesting to see other people's opinions and experiences with the film.<br /><br /><a href="http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2010/06/cult-movie-review-dune-1984.html">http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2010/06/cult-movie-review-dune-1984.html</a><br />
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On a tragic note, My friend Paul Michelena was killed this weekend in a supermarket parking lot, hit and run over by a car while protecting his daughter Chani (Yes, Paul was a DUNE fan as well).<br />Water for the dead will be given at the appropriate time.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sanclementetimes.com/blog/2013/10/11/man-killed-by-car-in-grocery-store-parking-lot/">http://www.sanclementetimes.com/blog/2013/10/11/man-killed-by-car-in-grocery-store-parking-lot/</a><br />
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Thirdly, I finally spent the weekend back working on DUNE Special Edition again... mostly sorting out all My 3D assets - since the organization has been haphazard at best and working in the VFX industry for the past couple of years has taught Me a thing or two!Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-83255130956082960332013-03-07T01:27:00.001-08:002013-03-07T01:27:37.967-08:00Guild Heighliner - HD ReduxSo I have decided to sort of start over - after a fashion - in as much
as I am starting at the beginning again and retooling everything for the greater detail demands of HD.
Means more work of course!<br />
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Have never been happy with the level of detail on the Guild Heighliner,
so I have been working out how to use the new "instancing" features in
Lightwave 11.5 to create a good look. Had to remodel the ship to
accommodate the way instancing works. I also have not added in the node
flow that allows the instances to rotate in 90 degree increments for
more variety.<br />
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Here's a couple of in progress comparison shots... Same model with
instancing turned off and instancing turned on. (It's not lit properly
yet though and I will eventually play with the surface textures when I
have finished modeling - still have to do the three large vertical
doors)<br />
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Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-71453424711754336992012-08-26T19:30:00.001-07:002012-08-26T19:30:20.343-07:00Atreides SoldiersNow that Lightwave has instancing and I've been able to get a reasonable
grip on it, I can now continue working on the "Atreides Departure"
scene I had started a while ago but could never work out a way to
populate the scene with enough "people".<br />
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Rather than waste a lot of time modeling from scratch I grabbed an old
Imperial Officer model from the Jedi Academy game (An enhanced version
modeled by HapSlash) - since he has almost the same uniform I needed. I
then modified and hacked this starting point to more closely resemble
the uniform in the film... and in doing so noticed a cool little detail I
had never seen before... the wardrobe dept outdid themselves by
creating a whole ranking system for the Atreides troops...<br />
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I also noticed one shot (the only one on Caladan) where there was an alternate uniform with a sort of greatcoat.<br />
Still have to finish the hats, the alternate uniform and getting some different heads and head textures in there...<br />
I also modeled a low rez pistol and rifle for the soldiers as well.<br />
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Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-80632667661186627762012-08-25T00:57:00.002-07:002012-08-25T00:57:41.570-07:003rd Stage Guild Navigator - Revised DesignWell, My Z-Brush skills are getting a little better so decided to tackle
the 3rd Stage Guild Navigator... While I was at it, I decided to tweak
the design a bit more. In the novel the Navigators are humans mutated
through their addiction to the spice melange. The movie creature was
interesting and I like the head, but the body basically said "alien" not
"mutated human" and since you rarely ever see anything of him other
than his head until the folding space scene, I thought that I could "get
away" with doing a revision to the original design.<br />
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Here is the untextured, un re-topologized version as it currently stands...<br />
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I think I may "stretch out" the body a bit... still tinkering with it. Need to add more detail too.<br />
Sashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04037554916061176077noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318702596419171382.post-77184754884371965442011-08-23T23:55:00.000-07:002011-08-23T23:55:52.574-07:00CALADAN LANDING FIELD - updateHere is an update on the Caladan Landing Field.<br />
Everything is still in progress but SLOWLY coming together (Working on a SyFy channel original movie right now so time is very limited).<br />
I still think I prefer the crystals to the fountains though but will have to see how each looks.<br />
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That said, I AM still working on it! <img alt="" border="0" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.foundation3d.com/forums/images/smilies/new/smile.gif" title="Smile" /><br />
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Found better versions of the original concept art from 1984 a while ago and with a better understanding of what is going on in the art, I reworked My model of the Atreides Landing Field to better reflect the design... (It's still in progress so proportions and sizes are all in flux)<br />
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I've finally had a small amount of time to get back to working on this project and recently came across a whole slew of reference images I had not previously seen on the 2-disc DUNE DVD (Thanks to Joe Lawson for letting Me borrow that).<br />
With the new reference images, I have been able to revisit My spice harvester model and really try and get as much of the detail correct as possible (though I am taking a few liberties here and there)<br />
Worked out a new way to model all the curved parts that allowed Me to UV map them before I curved them and I think the results are looking considerably better than before.<br />
Here's the old model:<br />
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And here's the updated one:<br />
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The "Spotter" is a small ornithopter that circles or hovers over a working spice harvester watching for "worm sign", the tell tale approach of one of the giant native sand worms that can easily lay waste to an entire harvester in moments.<br />
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While mentioned in the movie by both Dr Kynes (In a delete scene) and by Duke Leto (during the rescue of the spice harvester workers), the "spotters" are not seen on screen.<br />
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I've created several designs & models for the spotters so far but have been unhappy with all of them - as they really didn't match the design aesthetic of the film -<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">UNTIL NOW...</span></b><br />
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Found an image of a model on a website that while different from the main ornithopter seen in the movie, to Me seemed just right - that combination of similar but different enough.<br />
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