At PAX East 2025, we had the chance to talk with Senior Art Director Gavin Whelan and Associate Art Director David Levy about how the team approached building the look and feel of Dune: Awakening, and ...

You feel the sand beneath your feet. The wind howls across endless dunes. And out there, somewhere, an adventure is stirring ...

I sat down with Dune: Awakening‘s Senior Art Director Gavin Whelan to talk about the challenges of bringing the most dangerous planet in the galaxy to consoles. Turns out sand is just as tough ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...