Matt Griffin

@mattgriffin

Artist & Author // Disney, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros, Nat Geo, Folio Society, Penguin & more ☛ mattgriffin.art

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Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· 12d

The news is out 👀 More updates in the coming weeks…

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· 27d

Today was a good post day... A lovely surprise - my copy of the Dune 4-6 deluxe box set arrived from Penguin It feels *amazing* to get to hold these things in person. This is the fulfillment of a life-long dream after all…

Photo of a man with short brown hair and a short beard, smiling slightly at the camera, holding two hardcover box sets of Frank Herbert's Dune saga side by side, showing the spines of all six books: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune. Framed vintage film posters are visible on the wall behind him.

Interior illustration spread from a Dune book, showing a red-suited female humanoid figure with a bald head reclining on an ornate dark throne against a yellow-green background, with a smaller shadowy cat- or demon-like figure crouched on the facing page.

Close-up of three hardcover book spines standing upright, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert, each in a different color treatment (brown, blue, teal), set against their green and gold illustrated slipcase featuring a moonlit desert landscape

Photo of Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Books 4-6 box set standing upright next to its three matching hardcover book covers laid out on a desk: God Emperor of Dune (brown, cloaked figure), Heretics of Dune (blue, figure silhouetted against a shattered moon), and Chapterhouse: Dune (teal, seated figure in a circular window). A computer monitor and desk items are visible in the background.

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 13

The Desert Knight

Digital illustration in a duotone purple-and-magenta palette of a cloaked female part-cyborg figure standing on a rocky alien landscape. She wears an ornate helmet with glowing eyes, exposed cables and mechanical joints at her shoulder, chest, and hip, and a long flowing cape. Twin moons or planets and jagged mountain silhouettes fill the background, with a large glowing pink sun/planet behind her.

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jun 26

Available now from @vicepress.bsky.social Highlander (Japanese Edition) ⚔️ Available in A2 (numbered ed of 2000) & A3 (open ed) vice-press.com/en-ie/produc...

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Apr 14

The Preacher from Children of Dune

A wide angle image of two cloaked figures standing in the foreground, in the background is a vast temple. A row of palm trees going towards the temple give a sense of huge scale. One figure is hooded, and resting an arm on the shoulder of the other, smaller figure who sports a kind of turban and glowing blue eyes. The colours - peach, mandarin, pink - along with the dust and hazy atmosphere show the extreme heat of the city of Arrakis. A burning sun sets behind the temple.

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Mar 17

All of the interior pieces for books 4-6 in the Dune saga have been released.. See them all here - mattgriffin.art/dune-46-delu...

Three people ride on the back of a giant sandworm, across the dunes towards an otherworldly rocky outcrop and the blazing sunset behind it.

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Mar 13

My cover art for books 4-6 of the Dune saga have been revealed :) Interior pieces (9 in total) will be shared soon (I hope!) For a closer look, head to mattgriffin.art/dune-46-delu...

An image of a box set of book 4-6 in Frank Herbert's Dune saga. The image shows the outer box art, a predominantly green scene of Odrade walking with Duncan in the Chapterhouse orchards, and the 3 book spines.

A wide angle image, predominantly golden yellow and browns, featuring Leto II - the half-sandworm, half-man God Emperor of Dune

A wide angle image of trippy electric blues, purples and reds featuring the character Sheeana from 'Heretics of Dune' standing before a sandworm's mouth, holding one hand up as if controlling it.

A wide angle image of greens and blues featuring the character Odrade - Reverend Mother of the Bene Gesserit - seated at her desk in Chapterhouse. Around her, sand blows on the floor and steps - a nod to the desertification of the planet Chapterhouse and it's wider meaning in the arc of the story.

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Aug 29

My latest cover for @arrowvideo.bsky.social

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Aug 4

Desert Power

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 24

Ideas about digital life, AI, simulation theory, religion & reality expressed through the lens of nostalgia & pop culture these are in order..

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 18

So that is what I continue to do.. I am a crazily, weirdly, lucky guy to make my living this way.. If you follow me or like my stuff I am incredibly grateful .. I've been doing this full time for 17 years.. I still feel like I'm only getting started Thanks for reading :)

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 18

I also wanted to play around with storytelling.. So back in 2017 I decided that instead of trying to write another book I'd just try to combine all of my passions into one giant narrative experiment The (ongoing) result is The Endling Saga

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 18

I also make a lot of art for myself. In fact, I mostly make art for myself. Personal work has always come first bc it's important (fundamental) to me, but also it leads to all the commercial work (& I have to earn a living) .. i like to play with diff mediums, no restrictions.. play time

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 18

I also write & from 2015-17 I had a series of children's books published called The Ayla Trilogy It was pretty crazy & it's something I'm v proud of, even tho I hate that 3rd cover with a passion (it's ok for me to say that, I made them.. & did all the interiors too. fwiw, I hate those now too)

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 18

But mostly when it comes to commercial work it's books & movies (which is dream come true) And you might notice - a lot of Dune .. Dune has become an absolutely massive part of my working life, which is also dream-come-true bc it's always been a massive part of my non-work life too

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 18

I occasionally do other things too, like editorial or advertising

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 18

... and DVD covers, pretty much all for Arrow Video (but some others) I've done a lot of these

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 18

I've done bits & pieces of stuff for films (key art, merch) but mostly I do licensed posters for galleries ...

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 18

...and interiors

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 18

For a living, I make art for books and films mostly A lot of covers (have no idea how many) ...

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Jul 18

Hi, my name is Matt (or Griff) & this is what I do 🧵

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· May 27

My latest licensed poster has been revealed ⚔️ Available this Thursday at 6pm BST from @vicepress.bsky.social vice-press.com/blogs/news/h...

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· May 20

Dune saga 1-3 box art, sketch to dream-being-real

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· May 20

Next week with @vicepress.bsky.social ⚔️

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· May 7

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· May 2

Silent Running for @vicepress.bsky.social (2020)

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· May 1

Found this while going through some old files

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Apr 28

Texture making & sketch for the piece below (it's called 'Home to the Sietch', an endpaper illustration for the Penguin / Ace deluxe edition of Dune) #dune #artprocess

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Apr 27

Matt Griffin@mattgriffin· Apr 26

Happy #AlienDay !