Today sees the release of Titan Book’s new novel, Alien: Covenant – Origins, from Alan Dean Foster. They’ve also got the anthology Predator: If It Bleeds due out next month and Alien: The Cold Forge next April.
If you thought Titan was done with Alien after that, we’re pleased to dispel you of that notion. Alien vs. Predator Galaxy is proud to help Titan Books announce another new book, Alien: The Blueprints!
“Titan Books are delighted to announce the publication of a brand new Alien art book in September 2018 as part of their on-going Alien franchise publishing programme, across fiction and non-fiction titles. Alien: The Blueprints by Graham Langridge is a collection of brand new blueprints of all the major vehicles, ships and weaponry of the Alien movie universe.
Artist Graham Langridge delves deep into the concept art, set designs and photography to recreate full and accurate blueprints of the drop ship, the Sulaco, the Nostromo and many more. Covering all the movies including Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.
Presented in a beautiful, hardcover art book, Alien: The Blueprints includes feature gatefold pages to allow the reader to explore larger vessels such as the Sulaco and the Covenant in stunning detail. A must have for any Alien fan.”
Graham Langridge’s Nostromo blueprint included in Alien: Vault.
Some of you may recognize the name Graham Langridge. He’s been involved in Alien fandom for sometime and is responsible for the renowned Nostromo blueprint that has circulated around the internet for a while now. It was even included as pullout in the previously released Alien: Vault.
Alien: The Blueprints is currently scheduled for release on the 5th of September 2018 in both the United Kingdom and North America.
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The book does and always has mainly concentrated on the human-related hardware in the ship, vehicle, colony realm; I do have the original derelict in there, though the original intent was for it to be a hand-drawn piece, and only if there was time. Hand-drawn due to the organic nature of Giger's work. More difficult to do on cad because drafting on cad is mainly straight lines. Trying to do 20-24 subjects is tough in the time permitted, and I knew that I would be pressed to draw the derelict.
So rather than leave it out altogether, I've done a few sheets of the original Derelict and Space Jockey. Without giving too much away I've illustrated it in such a way that it's based on a Geologist from the colony among the team that investigate it after Russ Jordan is attacked, and according to Prometheus, what do Geologists have? Spectographs, or 'PUPS' as Fifield calls it. So basically there are a couple of sheets that are colony spectograph print-outs from that exterior derelict survey. They look cool and are the only sheets that are not the usual blueprints. The original map that hangs in Operations has 'Geo Surv / Asset Claims' written on it, so I ran with that; it makes sense that there are a couple of Geologists / Geotech Engineers at the colony what with the rock formations, lava flows and just the nature of the landscape, so it seemed to be plausible.
The Prometheus Juggernaut is not included (personal preference really, I prefer the original - sorry); rest of the Prometheus ships and vehicles however are.
All the book will be black & white. The derelict pages I mention are grayscale so not strictly black & white.
I've thought about color over the years but people always seem to love the B&W technical look, so stuck with it.
As for EU ships, movie subjects only on this one. :-)
Your blueprints are epic! Can't wait!
Great to see this being made public. Can't wait to see the eventual book.
I'm wondering if we'll finally get to see where they store the coffee...
One would assume that the content is 'signed off' by fox ?
The Star Wars collected cross section books are amongst my favourite. Whilst this one touches on some interiors I'm up for blueprints of the Sulaco and co.
Personal project or for something official?
Murderous.
Great, thanks for responding!
Can't lie, I would've loved to see full layouts of Hadley's Hope and the prison, but I guess we don't really get enough context on those in the films for that to be possible, so I can understand why that's not happening. Still really looking forward to this!
Yeah, likewise. I get why there's usually under-represented in things like this but I'd love to see them get a bit more inclusion. I loved that the W-Y Report had so much great Resurrection stuff, especially given Perry's confessed dislike of the film.
Alien I-IV, Prometheus, Covenant.
-Windebieste.
What you will see in the book will be similar to the past work you've seen from me. Ships, vehicles, colonies. There are some interiors included. Tend to be select areas you see in the related movie such as Ops and MedLab as an example rather than a full-on deck plan (apart from Nostromo, I go a little deeper). So a neat affordable book with some really cool artwork I hope you'll love. Another year to wait so I'll talk more about it nearer the time and when it's released. :-)
Multiple orthogonal representations for sure; but it's a safe bet we'll be seeing more than just ship exteriors. Mind you, there's also tons of other hardware items as well - large and small - that would make for ideal subjects for schematic treatment.
Either way, what a great in universe resource this will be.
-Windebieste.
Does anyone know if there'll be any interior schematics of those ships to go along with the excellent exterior blueprints?
I love the level of detail. Even all the information looks very detailed as well
https://orig00.deviantart.net/6d2c/f/2013/001/f/d/fd877ad6f388ef9aeac837bd68482e62-d5q1xuo.png
Here's Graham's other blueprints from his Deviantart.
http://www.avpgalaxy.net/2016/09/06/alien-diaries-bob-penn-announced/
I asked Charles and he said it was on track for release at the next SDCC.
There should be some neat never seen before content in that one.
-Windebieste.
I'm still waiting for the Bob Penn book of ALIEN production stills to be published.
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So what was infamous about the Nostromo blueprint that was around online before? (Not sure I actually saw it lol)
-Windebieste.
Would be amazing if Gateway, Hadley and The penal Colony are in there.