Sunday, June 8, 1997
Thursday, June 5, 1997
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| Chris Halls/Cunningham's Newborn illustration |
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| Chris Halls/Cunningham's Newborn sketch extracted from ADI's video " |
Sylvain Despretz: The newborn again I think is an interesting idea, but Chris Halls who's now Chris Cunningham, brilliant genius like video director who's escaped from the bowels of art departments. Chris was asked to draw the Newborn that appears at the end of Alien Resurrection and did some gorgeous... gorgeously spooky paintings of semi baby like aliens with human skin, bones and ribcages, that bizarre black head, you know. And it's very subtle stuff that works if interpreted as on the painting. That's why you know, he's a designer, that's what it's for, and unfortunately by the time you saw the final alien, you just kinda got a creature from the black lagoon with a terrifying skull, and you have to have a skull in there otherwise people won't be scared. You sort of go, what did go wrong, you know, you've got these beautiful paintings. How hard can it be to just make a model of that. But Chris, one of the problems was that he was in England when he did the drawings and wasn't able to stand for his design and fight for it in a way a good politician has to do, and sadly nobody spoke up for him, you know, so, there go his designs. But he makes great videos so all is saved. (Alien Quadrilogy DVD set)
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| Chris Halls/Cunningham's emerging Newborn illustration |
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| Chris Halls/Cunningham's Newborn illustration extracted from ADI's video " |
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| Chris Halls/Cunningham's Newborn illustration |
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| Chris Halls/Cunningham's Newborn illustration |
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| Chris Halls/Cunningham's Newborn illustration |
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| closeup of head of Newborn from the bottom of previous image |
Sunday, May 25, 1997
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Alien Resurrection Alien Warrior Concepts
Sylvain Despretz talks about:
Chris Cunningham /Halls' Alien Resurrection Newborn concepts
Sylvain Despretz talks about:
Chris Cunningham /Halls' Alien Resurrection Newborn concepts
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a) Sylvain Despretz drew his aliens in a stylised way with small featured long thin heads and large heavy hands and feet. The first drawing has large feet with long toes The drawing shows us familiar features of the final alien design for Alien Resurrection such as the tail with spines almost forming a fin and the digits reduced to four with two large fingers on the large hands. The odd slightly flatted at the back shape of the head is also quite similar to the final creature as well. The creature seems to be crawling along the sides of a shaft.
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| alien warrior sketch by Sylvain Despretz |
b) The second image has no signature but we might look at the first one and notice enough similarities in the artist's stylised to suggest that it seems to be by Syvlain Despretz. The feet of the creature resemble very large reptile or bird like claws and the shoulders have very large curved parts rising higher up than the head itself. The back pipes here almost appear to be spines with curved tips while the tai.
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| alien warrior sketch by Sylvain Despretz? |
c) The third is a close up study by Sylvain Despretz according to the DVD set. If it is by him, the head has a slightly small quality as with his stylised drawings of the alien, but the illustration explores the body of the creature close up as an interpretation of Giger's third version of a concept for the Alien humanoid (see bottom image for comparison)
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| Sylvain Despretz's study of Giger's third concept for an Alien Humanoid alien |
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| Giger's painting for a third concept for an Alien humanoid.Work 372 (See: Gigers Third Concept For Humanoid Alien) |
Monday, May 19, 1997
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Colour Images extracted from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhGWceHE6T8
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Black and white images extracted from
Chris Cunningham introduces "jaqapparatus 1"
http://vimeo.com/57683223
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