Welcome to the Dune Special Edition Project

This is a project I have been slowly working on over the last few years with the goal of ultimately replacing many of the "outdated" special effects shots in David Lynch's 1984 version of Dune.
The project initially began as an endeavor to build a "proper" ornithopter - one with flapping wings, that neither the movie or the mini-series managed to achieve. However, with the advent of the "fan-edit" the scope of the project has expanded with the goal of updating the effects in all those places in the movie where I feel things could be significantly "improved."
Although I am currently working on this by Myself, it's a large undertaking and if there is anyone interested in helping this project along, feel free to contact Me - We might actually be able to get this project completed with a few more skilled and enthusiastic people!

Regards
Sasha Burrow

If you are curious about My professional work, I have been working as a VFX artist (Among other things) at The Asylum for the past 6 years, including visual effects on all 4 Sharknado films (Mainly stuff blowing up!).
CLICK THE LINK TO SEE MY CURRENT SHOW-REEL

DUNE Special Edition: Showreel March 2010

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Atreides Soldiers

Now 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".

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...

I also noticed one shot (the only one on Caladan) where there was an alternate uniform with a sort of greatcoat.
Still have to finish the hats, the alternate uniform and getting some different heads and head textures in there...
I also modeled a low rez pistol and rifle for the soldiers as well.


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4 comments:

  1. MondarinaAugust 28, 2012 at 1:20 AM

    I am happy to see that you have returned to this project

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  2. scarletguardSeptember 22, 2012 at 4:46 PM

    I am happy to stop by and see not one but two new posts since I last visited. Keep it up!

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  3. toozeupDecember 22, 2012 at 8:14 PM

    Wow this whole project sounds brilliant. Have you seen Spicediver's latest 2012 edit of the film. It's truly brilliant. A combination of your work and his would be amazing!.

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  4. SashaOctober 18, 2013 at 10:59 PM

    I try and keep My eye on the other fan edits out there... some nice restoration work (on the blue eyes especially) in a couple of them.

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