Matt Rhodes, who is the lead concept artist at Bioware, has created an awesome series of art featuring the characters of the classic novel Dune. He did it in the style of director Tarsem Singh (The Fall, Immortals). His goal was to create “visual storytelling cranked to eleven.” Here’s a note from the artist:

"Some context: I fell into a Dune-hole recently which started by stumbling across the INCREDIBLE art from what would have been Jodorowsky’s Dune film. That inspired me to re-watch the David Lynch movie again (one of my favorites). At that point, I had to read the book again. In the middle of my read-through, I watched a couple Tarsem Singh movies and my brain made a connection that I couldn’t shake loose:

"I want a 4 hour Dune movie designed by Tarsem Singh’s crew (production designer, art director, costume designer, cinematographer, etc…)

"So, in order to get that thought out of my brain, I took a clumsy swing at designing the cast of Dune through the lens of Tarsem Singh’s crew. To me, that meant making each character an operatic or theatrical expression of their role in the story."

Each illustration features a group of characters that are organized by location. I’ve included information on each of the characters that was provided by the artist. I absolutely love how this turned out, and now I would love to see an animated version of Dune directed by Singh!