Steve Burg
Human, Artist, Designer
Dune - Guild Heighliner
Director – Denis Villeneuve
Production Designer: Patrice Vermette
I worked on this quite early in the process, from about February through April of 2018.
One item was the gigantic transport ship of the Spacing Guild, which was an exploration of abstract form and various textures to suggest the enormous size of these vessels, and their mysterious nature.
Large enough to cast shadows on the planet...
Early exploration was more angular
How would something of that size appear from the ground...
Eventually a squashed cylinder became the main theme
detail view showing displacement of the surface
Various surfaces were explored to give a feeling of immense age
A variation on the rounded prism shape