Dune Prophecy ’s season finale sees Valya trapped in a chilling nightmare. She’s on a frozen lake, battling fierce winds and a relentless blizzard. In the scene, she finds herself trying to save her brother Griffin from drowning in an ice hole.

The harsh environment reflects her inner torment and emotions. As she crawls across it, black snow falls, and the lake starts to crack.

Set-wise, there was a flat representation of an ice field, but that didn’t give the VFX supervisors a sense of depth and value. Their challenge was that the scene needed to feel like ice. It was also important that they weren’t doing effect for effect’s sake, and everything needed to sell the story.

Visual effects producer Terron Pratt explains, “We transition between the black and white snow. That black snow is

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