![]() ![]() I’ve worked with Adam for a good number of years now, and I think there’s a lot of mutual trust there, where I’m given the freedom to do my own thing (within reason!) I know he’ll steer me in the right direction if I need it. It’s an open brief, I’m allowed to come up with my own suggestions for images which are then sent over to the art director Adam Auerbach for feedback and then approval from the Herbert estate. It always depends on the project, but in the case of these deluxe editions it’s a very freeing and trusting process. The artist also described the level of creative freedom he experienced when working on artwork for these deluxe editions of the Dune books, as well as his collaboration with both the publisher and Herbert estate. I want the viewer to feel like they’re there as much as possible, as I am when I’m reading the book and making the images. So I guess maybe I did lean a little more into scene-inspiration for these but, hopefully, with a lot of atmosphere. On, I reverted back to desert scenes, showing the Laza Tigers and Leto II in his sand trout suit. The visit to the old Fedaykin Otheym offered a good opportunity to show a simple Arrakeen home, inspired by Middle-Eastern courtyards. And then also had this image of what a Sietch might be like, in caves that have been hollowed out by wind.įor the sequels, I wanted to do a Guild Navigator and felt the scenes of the conspiracy against Paul offered a perfect oppurtunity for that. ![]() There’s also certain elements that you want to tackle, for example in the first book I just had to do Shai Hulud. With these books, my intention is more to give glimpses of the world and try to achieve a sense of atmosphere more than anything else. But I do my best to make this a direct link from book to image, via the filter of my own brain.Īs for how I decide, it’s a slightly different process than normal, which is to highlight passages of text that might make for a good illustration. I guess it’s impossible not to have other interpretations floating in your head, whether from old masters like John Schoenherr or Bruce Pennington or contemporary Dune artists like Marc Simonetti. I really love what Denis Villenueve (and his production designer Patrice Vermette) dreamed up, but I wanted to keep this very much my vision of what that world is like. Griffin was asked whether this has made it more challenging to present his own artistic interpretation of Dune and how he decided on which imagery to go with for the illustrated endpapers. More so for newcomers, for whom Denis Villeneuve’s cinematic vision is their first exposure to this universe. With commercial and critical success of 2021’s movie adaptation of Dune, recipient of six Oscar Awards, its visuals are ingrained on many people’s minds. They are books you can return to over and over. It had been a while since I read the sequels, so when I finished re-reading and for this job I continued, and am now enjoying God Emperor of Dune again. I decided there and then that a dream of mine would be to illustrate it someday, and decades later that dream came true. Then when I was about 14 I read the book, and it blew my mind. My Dad has always been into movies, so I was exposed to lots of great films as a small kid. My intro to Arrakis was actually the Lynch film-it was a family favorite when I was growing up, so I would have been pretty young when I first saw it. Griffin read the original novel as a teenager and now, decades later, he’s realized his dream of illustrating the books. In addition to the deluxe edition artwork for Frank Herbert’s Dune, the artist has created the covers for The Caladan Trilogy- The Duke of Caladan, The Lady of Caladan, and The Heir of Caladan-and the recently-released collection Sands of Dune, written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Together with their exclusive reveal of the new covers for Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, io9 (Gizmodo) published an email interview with Matt Griffin. When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction will set Paul and his family on a journey towards a destiny beyond imagination, one that will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream…. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Frank Herbert’s epic Dune saga tells the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Its sequels- Dune Messiah (1969) and Children of Dune (1976)-continue the story of the Atreides family as they chart a new course for the human race, for better or for worse… The official synopsis for the saga reads as follows: Dune, by Frank Herbert, was first published in 1965 and is widely recognized as the best-selling science fiction novel of all time. ![]()
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