H.R. Giger lent his talent for Prometheus, Ridley Scott wanted to involve him in any way he could but ultimately most of the artwork created by the Swiss artist was left unused due time constrictions. Now you can see a small selection of H.R. Giger’s Prometheus artwork which will be featured in the upcoming Prometheus Blu-ray release this October.
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It makes complete sense to me. Not only it's the first intermediate stage between the chtulhu-reptiloids and humanoids, but that thing is young. If the Aliens series has told us anything, the babies shed their skin when they grow, and the adult is quite radically different. Even the most advanced birth in ALIEN 3 showed us an infant which was very thin and skinny.
I believe it sticks with the slick aspect of the tech and even the ship. All is clean inside the ship, while the derelict's very structure in ALIEN has been corrupted, like if the xenomorph almost grew out of the biomechanoid tech.
In Prometheus, we weren't there yet.
The contamination, obviously pre-programmed to build serpentine lifeforms, went straight into humanoids.
Now, if the Engineers' tech is somehow alive or something along that, then the corruption while have to get there first to capture the Giger aspect of it.
So we'll get the bony facehuggers and the eggs.
The problem, I guess, is that too many fans wanted the bridge to be closed immediately.
I think it's a given in ALIEN that the generational mutation has already been established as quick enough, so much that any movie sequel to Prometheus could already show us the next step, much closer to the Giger design.
This movie requires patience. Besides, many would have bitched about the even greater fan service if we already had plenty of quasi-xenos all over the movie.
Its a shame, they didn't work so closely together on this one as they did before but thats the price you pay for stardom and recognition. Who knows maybe there is something devious in the works. Monster movies are so lame without proper vision.
I agree with the idea of making the aesthetycs a little different from Giger's (for example, including very little 'techno-organic' stuff), I mean, this is called 'Prometheus', not 'Alien 0' or whatever, they wanted to keep it fresh and distinct at least on a visual level, not simply making a sequel/entire reprise of the whole Alien universe and re-use the same visual concept and settings once again.
Giger- ''yeah, yeah, graulisch''
or
Ridley- ''i don't want to say aliens, but aliens''
Giger- ''yeah,yeah, with a penis for a head''
Where the hell is Sweeps?! He needs to caption this image right away!
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Long time no see.
Was the first thing I thought of when I read "no time." Just like ADI. Hopefully that didn't bring up any bad memories for Geegs.
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yet again..... Just like with alien3......
The Deacon sucks!
That Babyhead concept piece is from Carlos Huante. The creature was already concepted before Giger did his take. In the Bluray you can even see how Ridley presents Giger with his own sketches of the creature.
As I mentioned earlier, Ridley showed Giger all they had created in an attempt to impress him and get his "approval". The Deacon, Fifield creature, hammerpede, etc... were already there.
Because apparently some people can't tell the difference.
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LOOK AT IT!
There is no Giger here.
Yes - completely agree. Behind all the design/concepts comes a strong sense of Giger's work. He continues to heavely influence that universe, albeit in a more passive way.
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I just noticed this illustration amongst the images in the shot of Arthur Max inspecting the illustrations. And also just under Arthur Max's elbow is The Long Tomorrow
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change the s value from s600 to s1600 for full size image of wall of illustrations. I used Photoshop to sew and blend the frames of that shot together.
Despite all the creatures having a softer more organic feel there's a healthy respect for Giger in the finished creatures, and the Engineer is practically Gigers' generic 'human' victim.
But alas which came first, the design idea or giger's concept?
I might just be being biased, but these have far more of the kind of exotic and bizarre that we have come to expect from creatures in this universe. The deacon just looks like another dime a dozen monster by comparison IMO.
...Giger sure made the Alien even more "sexual"
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What they chose works for what it is, and I hate that Im so torn, and bash more than I praise. I guess I expected more in every department.. Hopefully next time.
[/quote]He doesn't paint anymore so not gonna happen, and why would he waste any more time on a film they clearly had very little intention of using his designs on ? (I like the film by by the way, but it's Giger-lite, but he got a pay check so good for him)
But, again, this was, i guess, "too close" to the original for what they wanted to do.
Well, it's been quite a conversation killer that's for sure. Maybe I'll have a little more to think about after the Blu-Ray set comes out if ever I get the opportunity to watch it.
I'm very glad that Giger's work has been shared because it's actually given me something to actually dream about in relation to the Prometheus movie
Well, he seemed to be polite about what they created on the set of Poltergeist II until he got home. But it's a different story here
Well the dates given seem quite interesting, useless information unless we knew the dates when they did their work. The drawings all seem to date back to the first half of 2011, well, at the moment I can see that the alien life forms (1,8,12 & 13 ) posted were done in late February, the Species like humanoid (21) in March and the three Deck Elements (22,24 & 27) were all drawn in April.
I'm noticing the word Wasserfall on the Deck Element with the facehugger type creature, maybe it was supposed to have flowing water as a font?
And...
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