When Denis Villeneuve was 13, he & a friend, Nicolas Kadima, began storyboarding #DuneMovie. “Nicolas was a very good artist, so he did the drawing, and I would tell the stories,” – Villeneuve. Here are some scans of these 40 year old Dune storyboards! pic.twitter.com/zefDjTC28o
Fun fact – vegetation on Brave was a procedural geometry generator that ran at render time. The seed for the generator was @iquilezles' phone number with the comment:
Frank Herbert's DUNE is the #3 bestselling book on the USA Today list for the week ending October 24th. The publisher has to go back to press to meet sales demand–making the novel a "runaway bestseller," as my father liked to say, with a twinkle in his eye. pic.twitter.com/7YMOH8L1Nn