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Original Don Post Studios concept design for a Harkonnen helmet, accomplished in ink on a 9 ½ in. x 14 in. leaf of artists vellum.
Noted at the lower right in black ink "Harkonnen Soldier Helmet Design II".
Sold for $200, 29 July 2005 by Profiles in History
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A pensive Albert Whitlock with his painting of the Arrakeen valley. Although he supervised each of the Dune matte shots, this was the only one personally executed by Whitlock. |
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Camera and model rigger Lynn Ledgerwood checks the alignment on another Giedi Prime establishing shot, produced under the auspices of veteran matte artist Albert Whitlock, The painting - rendered by Syd Dutton - would later be enhanced with an array of live action and miniature elements. |
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Veteran production designer Tony Masters was among the first to join Lynch's team, working closely with the director to conceptualize and then create the four divergent worlds of Dune. |
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Hall of Rites: The partial live-action set - an exterior erected on the Churubusco backlot - was a narrow, open-roofed structure two hundred feet long, with an eighty-foot elevated platform at one end and ten-foot walls along the sides. The balance of the structure was achieved in matte paintings form by Albert Whitlock's unit. |
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Syd Dutton - who worked on the paintings with Mark Whitlock - adds a finishing touch to one of the angles for the Hall of Rites matte. |
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Richard Malzahn storyboards the Giedi Prime sequence.
Image/Caption courtesy of Eric Swenson
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Model unit supervisor Brian Smithies dusts off the planet Caladan prior to shooting, The three-dimensional model was one element among many in the complex composite shot of the Atreides armada entering the Guild heighliner for its space-folding journey to Arrakis.
Image/Caption courtesy of Eric Swenson
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Bene Gesserit Symbols and Fremen Needle Gun |
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Fremen sound gun design |
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Two views of a crysknife and a Fremen knife |
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Early designs for the Fremen stillsuit |
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Tarpel Gun design |
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Sardaukar Pistol design |
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'thopter sketchs.
The diamond-shaped Atreides ornithopter in various flight modes.
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Ship designs for the dark and sinister Harkonnen flagship. |
