The Evolution of the PredAlien

Leading fromAlien Vs Predator: Requiem J. J. Booker's "Hy'brid" from the Facehugger fanzine 1993 Dave Dorman's Predalien mid 1990s Predalien in "Alien vs Predator duel"comicbook, 1995 White hybrids in "Alien vs Predator: Deadliest of the Species" comicbook Alien vs Predator film's Hybrid Chestburster  Marvel's Iron Spider: Inspiration for backspine concepts?Michael Broom's Predaliens Michael Broom's Predalien with side...

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J. J. Booker's "Hy'brid" from the Facehugger fanzine 1993

leading from: The Evolution of the PredAliena) In 1993, the Alien Fanclub fanzine Facehugger edited by Simon Clarke, an amature comic book writer /illustrator by the name of J. J. Booker surprised the readers with a short story called "Hy'brid" where a new alien hybrid has been bred by the human race to deal with the known aliens, one mixed with the genes of the Predator.from Facehugger's Hy'bridb) In the Aliens vs Predator comicbook, every...

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Dave Dorman's Predalien mid 1990s

leading from:  The Evolution of the PredAlienDave Dorman the freelance illustrator talked about how 20th Century Fox/Dark Horse approached him for a design for the Alien/ Predator hybrid and he created a painting around the mid 1990s as concept work for the very first iteration of the Aliens Predator movie way back in the 1990′s when Dark Horse was co-producing with 20th Century Fox.The work that he did for them, as is most work with film...

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"Alien vs Predator duel"

leading from: The Evolution of the PredAlien In 1995 "Alien vs Predator duel" was the first comic book to feature an alien that had grown inside a predator and taken on the host's features and became a monster based on Dave Dorman's earlier creation.  In the drawings, spines running along the tail are almost razor blade like.&nb...

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White hybrids in Alien vs Predator: Deadliest of the species

leading from:  The Evolution of the PredAlien In 1996, Dark Horse intoduced another Predator/Alien hybrid in a comic book series Aliens vs. Predator: Deadliest of Species, called a White Hybrid. This creature had human genes as well in the mix. entry in Wikipedia regading this character"White HybridsThe hybrids are a race of Aliens created by a corrupted computer system called "Toy". The hybrids possess the traits of Aliens, Predators...

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Alien vs Predator film's Hybrid Chestburster

leading from The Evolution of the PredAlien and Tatopoulos concept work for Alien Vs PredatorThe hybrid chestbursterAlien vs Predator "hybrid" chestbursterThe Alien/Predator hybrid chestburster makes it's appearance at the end of Alien vs predator. The director Paul Anderson didn't expect this end shot to lead to what would become the beginning of the story of following film Alien vs Predator Requiem, but it would happen never...

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Farzad Varahramyan's Predaliens

leading from The Evolution of the PredAlienFarzad Varahramyan was hired by ADI to create concept art for the Predalien. We find several sketches and a painting. The mandibles are elongated with long teeth. The sketches feature the creature with a bulbous cranium that is not very elongated in comparison to the ones that we often see, but this creature has long finger like projections coming out of the back instead of the typical spines that...

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Michael Broom's Predalien

leading from The Evolution of the PredAlienand Michael Broom Hybrid 034 (06/13/06).  Broom's predalien with horizontal rear headspinessame image as above but presented brighter and with more colour Hybrid 036 (06/14/04) Broom's predalien with rear claw like spinesBroom's predalien with articulated back spines and a head with a alien queen like ridgesBroom's Predalien with claw like back spines.Broom's predalien with vertical hanging...

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Justin Murray's Predaliens

leading from:  The Evolution of the PredAliena) Justin Murray supplied a creature that looked as if it were something that could have belonged to a dark fantasy barbarian stories which would have fit in with the intended tone of Paul Anderson's Aliens vs Predator which took inspiration from the Frank Frazetta paintings associated with the old Conan the Barbarian and other Edgar Rice Burroughs or barbarian paperbacks through the 1960s and 70s.Predalien...

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The Predalien

leading from:  The Evolution of the PredAliena)Assembling ideasIn Alien vs Predator: Requiem;, the Alien/Predator hybrid becomes a major creature and becomes a major creature and the directores decide to name this creature the Predalien, and amalgam of the two hybridized conceptsSeveral artists were brought in to offer their designs of a Predalien, Farzad Varahramyan, Michael Broom, and Justin Murray provided illustrations. Greg Figiel, Akihito...

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The AVP:R Alien warrior

leading from: Children of the Predaliena) A new design for the alien warrior head lead to a creature with large fans and ridges along the skull that resembled Predator weaponary as if this were a sign of their genetic tampering to make their biomechanics reminiscent of the Predator's creativity as shown in the AVP movies. There were also attempts to bring back Giger's biomechanic style into the design which might be said to be visible within...

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