How I Remade Dune in 24 Hours using VFX

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Gotta watch this at half speed to catch all the genius tips. So GOOD! - Sam

I like what your dune here

I was the Lidar scanning tech on the ground scanning all the surrounding landscape in Jordan for Dune part 1. This was fun to watch utilizing UE5, UE5 is crazy.

Dude you are on a totally different level when it comes to utilizing all the cool ue features, starting from modelling to using sequencer to perfection. Absolutely killer content. Respect.

Worked for 9 years as a 2nd AD in the film industry and got to work on some crazy cool stuff. I did some pick up shots for IRobot and the tech feels so ancient now thinking about the process back then, especially seeing the capabilities of UE5. You're very talented - Nice work, love it.

Hey guy, just wanted to say thanks for giving this information while not discrediting the time and effort it took to make that phenomenal film. 18 years of VFX experience here and moved to virtual production around ~2014, though we used unity at the time, blech). So please take it with a grain of salt that while I may be a teensy bit salty that these tools weren't around until the last 5-10 years, I'm very much appreciating you giving all the information to quickly develop this sequence, however still informing that corners were cut using the displacement technique and procedural texturing. I feel this is giving credit to the hard work, time and pain of all those involved on the development of the source material. Generally speaking, all of these would be hand modeled, curated, and pushed through something like substance painter/designer to achieve the directors final vision for the environment, and the animation, camera movement and even down to how much atmo you have in there would be meticulously iterated on over several weeks of development (in this particular sequence I imagine the camera movement would be the most picked apart and iterated since thats driving the scene). Very cool stuff man.

1 minute silence for people who think it was made in 24h

This is quite possibly the most fascinating resume I have ever seen.

‘Action scene’ unless something funky is happening when they’re flying, they’re just vibing, smoking that good spice

Holy SHIT!!! I am a screenwriter with a script that I very much wanted to make a short/trailer for, but thought it would be impossible b/c the opening & closing scenes required VFX and assumed it was WAY out of my budget. If I cannot find a VFX wizard interested in working with me, I may have to become one myself.

Honestly just amazing work, you make it look easy. It is 100x times harder to understand unreal engine 5. Thanks for making a video. Great inspiration.

What an incredible achievement in 24 hours. I think Dune has the best VFX I've seen - most CGI looks like a high-end video game. Villeneuve managed to create something that looks real.

Very professional, seriously, GOD BLESS

Amazing. Dune is one of my favorite stories and your craft makes it come to life. I thank you. You need your own VFX studio!

When I watched Dune I had chills when I saw the ornithopter wing effects because it was so perfect, and you have managed to get a realtime effect to like 99% there purely in Unreal. Amazing work and although I've always been into building games, this has me interested in the idea of filmaking without the need for rendering hours or distributed rendering. Also for those watching, I'm not sure if someone commented it but when Josh was talking about greebles and 'bashing' stuff together, the term for the latter is commonly known as 'kitbashing' where you would take parts from different model kits (even entirely different styles and genres) to build something new, and greebles/greebling is the practise of creating detailed assets with re-usable objects.

Really splendid! I was pretty floored by how quickly you can get large amounts of detail that helps with scale! I’d watch the specular values in the city sections. They’re a bit too localized which is hurting your scale a bit, but I honestly cannot wait to try some of this out!!

One of the coolest videos I have seen !!! Great work

Very impressive, really good showcase of how effective and creative results you can get with unreal engine for film.

Nicely done Josh! Cant wait!