A sandworm, reengineered as a robot

Dilum Sanjaya's brief is one sentence: turn a Dune sandworm into a robot concept, with Opus 5.5. The creature is famous enough that a vague mechanical worm would be a failure. You have to keep the read — the ringed body, the sense of something that swallows — and then invent the hardware.

Concept art lives or dies on that translation. A skin of gears pasted on a still is a filter. A design with panels, joints, and a logic for how the segments move is a machine you could argue about. The post is a look at that argument, not a still from the film.

Opus 5.5 is the only tool named. The sandworm is the constraint. The robot is what the constraint produced.