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Dune fanart- my imagining of one of the Spacing Guild navigators, in the mental process of folding space.

Or it might be a Deep One. . . the line between the two seems rather fine, what with both having been human, and aren't anymore, and more like fish. Except Herbert goes and out-HPL's HPL there what with the whole moving through strange voids of spacetime with the mind and then folding it. I'm pretty sure Deep Ones just went down to worship their master Dagon, and didn't get Elder thing abilities conferred.
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~squizzlenut Aug 12, 2007  Professional Traditional Artist
This is almost exactly how I imagined the navigators, only with much less of the supernatural detail and colouring (my brain is clearly not as fantastic as yours...). I love it!

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~tekelili Sep 3, 2007
Thanks for the comment! =) I really like drawing navigators for some reason, and have always wondered how the Lynch movie version managed to turn them into hydrocephalic slugs. XD
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~squizzlenut Sep 4, 2007  Professional Traditional Artist
I saw the film before I'd read the book, so the first time I got to a description of a navigator I had to spend ten minutes trying to work out how the ones in the film fitted to it. It confused my poor brain... :giggle:
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~tekelili Sep 8, 2007
It was definitely a very interpretive film. =D If I'd read the book first, I'd probably have hated the movie, but I also saw the film first, and it broke my brain when I actually read it. XD I like the book better, but, still was a fun film.
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~squizzlenut Sep 8, 2007  Professional Traditional Artist
Someone said good books can make great films, or great books can make good films, but great books can't make great films. I suppose that's why everyone I know who read the book first hates the film. I think it's a lot of fun, and I respect their decision to wimp out of some of the details (like Baron Harkonnen's boundless fat). I've always thought it was better to do it wrong but well than right but badly. I'm also in love with the painted backgrounds (oh, how I hate the copious CG of most modern films...) and the church music played on electric guitar! X3

Eventually I figured out that when the book said the navigators had webbed hands the designers for the film decided they should also be really small hands, and had bloated the body. For some reason they added details, where most film-makers will leave them out...
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~tekelili Sep 12, 2007
I still think the Lynch movie's a lot of fun too, you just have to be able to take it for what it is, a very creative interpretation. . .especially with the Harkonnen, who are my favorite chars in the novel. XD Somehow, Lynch decided to wimp out on things like the Baron's size, but yet, added a great deal of grotesqueness that was not at all present in the novel. It really is hard not to love the idea of the heart plugs, but, they're so remarkably inefficient. Makes Harkonnen awfully easy to kill. XD

The SciFi channel's miniseries version was excellent, I thought, about as good a translation of the novel to film as could be managed, and they didn't wimp out on any details. And they didn't add any strange things plucked from thin air, although they did alter the roles of a few characters. But, it was easy to see why, else, they'd have had to bring in people for a very short while, and the viewers would be all, "Now who the hell is that supposed to be?".
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~squizzlenut Sep 13, 2007  Professional Traditional Artist
Ah, I haven't seen the miniseries, I'll keep an eye out for it. You live in America, right? It's possible it never made it across the Atlantic.

I thought the horrid diseases were to make the Baron just as disgusting without needing to make him impossibly fat, so they wouldn't need to do anything too ambitious. Excessive fat is one of the hardest things to fake. It is indeed very hard not to love the idea of a heart plug, but I don't understand why they put them in so many people, it's like wearing a sign saying "Kill me this way". :giggle:
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!Ciepher May 12, 2007
He's lovely, especially his skinny legs and fin-hair.

I much prefer Frank Herbert's original idea of Steersmen, as opposed to David Lynch's floating flesh lump.. although the skinned hamster look is sort of cute in a way. :boing:
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~tekelili May 12, 2007
Thanks!

Yeah, I'm not sure where Lynch managed to interpret the flesh lumps from- they have their charm, but, I think seeing some traces of humanity lingering helps to convey their rather Lovecraftian background. *g*
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Mood: Wow! *Quaddles-Roost May 3, 2007  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
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