ALEXANDER PERFILYEV

Fish Speaker Body Armor Design

FORGOT: The chest plates are Ottoman kinda thing, there is a famous museum armor piece that Alp showed me.

There is a story! My subscriber and friend Alp is a young Historian and a fellow Dun...

Heraldics

Wanted my own Atreides Red Hawk for the Fish Speaker uniforms I will show off in the next post!

Considering making the final (red) version into a merch belt buckle/pocket decoration kinda thi...

P20 1/2

Royal Peregrination!

Inbetweener

Drawing a single in-between frame of 130 frames Leto II shot from the teaser.

WizardsOnly suggested I save this level of smoothness for the intimate emotional close-ups for efficiency.

Satellite method

WizardsOnly taught me to use Google Earth for landscape references and this became such a fun tool for storyboarding the final section of the animation! I do however plan to paint my version of thi...

Voice recording session: Will and Owen

Here is Will Gravesaka and Owen Flaherty acting out the Worm interrogating Malky scene for my God Emperor animation! How cool is that?

Really lucky knowing guys like Owen and Will. This woul...

Calligraphy evolution

This went from 'Wow, I got it right away!' to 'Nothing of this is good enough' to the one you see in the teaser.

Bottom right are crystal texture attempts back when the og idea was the micros...

TEASER (GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE)

Already back to storyboarding more Moneo. Now the real work load begins...

I decided to include you all in this one even though before I didn't do patrons in teasers but with how these little...

My skin is not my own!

The hand evolution.

Basically, I am more and more willing to redo stuff to get closer to the pictures in my head or pictures that are actually satisfying to me. A lot of gradient shadings...<...

Title calligraphy

That went through several iterations! Obvious general inspiration of course but the last touch was a sort of 3D effect I took from this Palestinian calligraphist: 2024-03-30 21:32:46 +0000 UTC View Post

"She wore a dark golden gown and her hair was tied back in braids which made her face appear fresh and innocent."

Let's all get used to me being forever late!

I just finished animating Hwi in this teaser scene but I want you to see the movement in the teaser, in a more dramatical presentation. 

PLASTIC

I came to books because of the first Denis Dune and although I like many designs in Lynch Dune as well it was hard at first not to think interiors in those brutalist Jordanian monolithic blocks. Ar...

Hands

There is a lot of hand animations in this one. 

I was thinking there is no special reason for me imagining Leto emanating heavily with his still protruding silver hands but when I was re...

Indian head shake!

Always wanted to animate one! 

I plan to have a one scene (two-shots) teaser thing out soon because I still want to have something up when the new movie comes out but I want to finish th...

'My gentle, Hwi'

And the Tank (a harsh transition!).

The reference painting of (I believe) an Iranian woman is (I believe) by Mahshid Zali http://www....

Good Idea Fairy

Remember when Keaton layed out a whole game of bones plan for THLMR ep6? 

Our fellow patron Archeota is helping me out by applying his in service field knowledge to some Fishspeaker troo...

More storyboarding!

Time comes to stop storyboarding already! 

Thank you for all the support! 

Geod should be a shorter opera which will probably make it very confusing for anyone unfa...

Guild Lighter

A guild lighter ship design based on the rocket from this Children of Dune Japanese book cover. For the Long-Legged servitors scene solely (as usual).

Nevermind the meaningless lonely wing fo...

Content

When I was listening to the audio book I envisioned the chad of a character that is Malky as the Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini whom I only knew as Rene Mathis in Casino Royale and Quantum of Sol...

More GEOD storyboards!

It is really much more inspiring to have this kind of well defined storyboards. I pretty much end up sketching what will become first key frames of the animation in these scenes which might save so...

It begins!

Started storyboarding God Emperor of Dune short. 

I like the rain-worm shading and Duncan Idaho concept art from the last year but I might redesign Fishspeakers because I've been looking...

Forgot this alternative scene!

This (darkness eating the grass and closing in on the girls (and Puck)) was the initial idea but I ended up choosing black background because it was cleaner and more readable with it.

Also yo...

Deleted scenes

Ghostoftheoldworld wanted to see some of the unused stuff but there really is not much of it. And most of these shots just didn't look the part. Because I lost half of the source files in October a...

Pop this cassette in real quick

Atlas Bloodfyre (https://www.youtube.com/live/28VuRaq8Oks?si=mOnXLsdbzp2BbqqV) or my go-to upsc...

Laughing all the way!

I am so nervous! But also can you believe the nightmare and a beautiful dream is finally over? Cue Frodo after cave before Eagles.

Thank you, thank you very much! Honestly. Next year I want t...

Moon runes

"Yeah! It looks like a 90s computer game that would have pre-rendered 3D cutscenes." Owen

NORA did the calligraphy on the moon rune part that says 'FAIRTYTALE'. The order top-down is weird be...

A day or two ago 🎵

I decided to not post any more animation wips before the New Year and just focus on working to complete the cartoon. Blue (what is the proper name of this kind of blue) in the table is finished stu...

workingworkingworking

Still alive and filling out the excel tablet! I want to keep you updated but also there is less and less that I want to show off because it will eventually be finished by New Year (please!). <...

h.e. turn1

Up, up, up.

Ever since I've watched the first episode of JoJo's Golden Wind I was moved by the 'face lick' scene and especially the dramatic frame-by-frame zoom and turn of the two character ...

遠い redo

One of the 'I am gonna die if I don't change that' shots. Not so important how it looked before. Another step in the pursuit of more life-like animations. With something as big as this project I st...