Creating the Alien

leading from

Ridley Scott's Alien Monster 

a) Big 'Un, The Big Chap or The Little Rascal 

The third stage was known as Big 'Un, The Big Chap and also more memorably known as The Little

Rascal. Gordon Carroll would say "I can mix you the perfect Martini" which they called The Little Rascal. It certainly, as Ivor Powell remembered, helped mellow the angst of the day each night, so the big alien was called after Gordon's dry Martinis ( Alien Makers II documentary)

b) The Original Sculpture

i) Giger's Objectives

ii) Concept designs for the beast

iii) Sculpting the costume

iv) Sculpting the alien head

v) No, no eyes!

Bolaji Badejo in the suit being airbrushed by Giger (from Japanese Giger's Alien video)

c) Mechanising the head

i) David Watling's Alien head

ii) Carlo Rambaldi's Alien head

The Alien and Giger from the cover of the Patrick Frey 2013 Catalogue