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[Thread] Behind the ships of Dune (2021): Interview with Rodeo FX's Deak Ferrand He was involved very early in the creation of Denis Villeneuve's Dune. Harkonnen gunship, art by Deak Ferrand: (1/22)

Reminder: I am publishing this thread to celebrate the fact that this account is now the second Spaceshipper account in terms of following. And since Bsky is not yet good at doing threads, I'm sorry but I can't do alt-text for this thread. (2/22)

"... making super-8 movies with my friends, model making, makeup effects, painting and sculpting. I would also buy any magazines that would deal with designing visual effects and sci-fi like Cinefantastique, Cinefex, Starlog etc. I attended the Arts Decoratifs school in Geneva, but was..."(4/22)

"... let go in the middle of the second year. I ended up in Montreal by accident, enrolled in a night class at the NAD center, which was teaching Softimage and Eddie." "After 6 months, I got hired by Buzz Image Group to join the new 3D department." (5/22)

"We started to push for more design work and matte paintings. Then our big break came in the form of Screamers, directed by Christian Duguay. The team designed and executed all the shots in the movie." From 1995 to 2001, Deak Ferrand worked on a lot of Hollywood movies and TV series... (6/22)