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| early concept art for facehugger with creature resembling an omelette accompanying O'Bannon's original Alien script |
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| Giger's Facehugger design with a single eye |
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
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- 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 teeth concepts
- Farzad Varahramyan's Predaliens
- Justin Murray's Predaliens
- Chris Ayers' Predalien
- Green Predalien concept drawings
- Predalien facehugging victim
- The Predalien
- Joe Nizzi's Biomechanoid Predator style Decepticons for Transformers 3, 2011
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a) 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.
b) In the Aliens vs Predator comicbook, every alien that came out from a host whether it was human or beast would grow into a man sized semi-humanoid creature as seen in Aliens Most people were unaware of the idea that the Alien should take on the characteristics of the host. However the creature in this story also had developed the ability to become invisible like its host had managed to do by technology, which is something that the final Predalien would not be able to do.
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c) The "Facehugger" fanzine produced a couple of stories with some inventive enough "what if" amature comic book stories on the theme of Alien hybrids. The artist J. J. Booker designed the creature retaining the idea of a division down the centre. Original concept drawings for Stan Winston's predator featured a tongue that was split into two, and this artist gave the creature a skull that divides into two rear lobes and a double ended tail. ( See: Facehugger, Issue 5, March 1993)
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Dave 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 companies, was work for hire, so even though that particular production was abandoned, all of the work that was produced went into the 20th Century Fox archives. When Aliens v. Predator 2 came out, and to a lesser extent, one of the Aliens v. Predator video games, they utilised imagery that Dave Dorman noticed was very close to the designs that I created for the initial abandoned film. Technically, he couldn't say that he created the imagery that they used, because it was “work for hire”, and was keen to point out the similarities between his work and the final Predalien design.
You are credited as creating the first art of the Predalien, does that mean you actually created the creatures look?
A: I did Predalien designs 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 I did for them, as is most work with film companies, was work for hire, so even though that particular production was abandoned, all of the work that was produced went into the 20th Century Fox archives. When Aliens v. Predator 2 came out, and to a lesser extend, one of the Aliens v. Predator video games, they utilised imagery that was VERY CLOSE to the designs that I created for the initial abandoned film. Technically, I can’t say that I created the imagery that they used, because it was “work for hire” but as I have displayed on my blog, I am just displaying the similarities in the designs.
Read more at http://galactic-squid.com/comics/galactic-squid-interview-dave-dorman/1439/#pFIMFAborzOv2Tcx.99
A: I did Predalien designs 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 I did for them, as is most work with film companies, was work for hire, so even though that particular production was abandoned, all of the work that was produced went into the 20th Century Fox archives. When Aliens v. Predator 2 came out, and to a lesser extend, one of the Aliens v. Predator video games, they utilised imagery that was VERY CLOSE to the designs that I created for the initial abandoned film. Technically, I can’t say that I created the imagery that they used, because it was “work for hire” but as I have displayed on my blog, I am just displaying the similarities in the designs.
Read more at http://galactic-squid.com/comics/galactic-squid-interview-dave-dorman/1439/#pFIMFAborzOv2Tcx.99
- Dave Dorman : So I'm having breakfast this morning (Friday Oct 26) and I open the USA Today and go right to the entertainment section... (Front page...Bleh!... Lets get to the real news!!). I pull out the section and unfold it and there jumping out at me is a photo of an Alien-ish creature. But wait... there's something different about it. I scan over to the headline and the article is about the new Aliens v. Predator film coming out this December. Cool. So I start to read the article, but my eye keeps going back to the photo. Why does this Predalien creature look so familiar? This is the first official posts of the creature...
Then my mind goes back... to the mid 1990's. I was hired by 20th Century Fox/Dark Horse Productions to develop some Predalien creature designs for the (then viable) first incarnation of Aliens v Predator. I did a number of designs, including the one shown here. Well much to my surprise here I am looking at my designs, in the flesh, so to speak! I have posted here my original designs and the photos showing the quite distinct similarity!I have no hard feelings about this. As a freelance illustrator I am aware of contractual obligations and the "work for hire" clause that is in most of these. (For those who don't know, the "work for hire" clause means basically that the work done for any particular company is completely owned by them. I sign over all rights to them on completion of the work. So they can do anything they want with it without paying me any more above the original cost of the work). So I had produced these designs for Fox and then they scrapped the production. The art went into the vaults. And I thought they would never see the light of day...
Well it appears someone might have done some digging because the similarity is striking. It would have been nice to be acknowledged for the work. I doubt I will get any credit. But I wanted to post this to show my fans and the world that sometimes lost work isn’t lost after all and good designs will always work, no matter how old they are!! (davedorman.blogspot.co.uk/2007/10/) - galactic-squid:You are credited as creating the first art of the Predalien, does that mean you actually created the creatures look?
Dave Dorman: I did Predalien designs 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 I did for them, as is most work with film companies, was work for hire, so even though that particular production was abandoned, all of the work that was produced went into the 20th Century Fox archives. When Aliens v. Predator 2 came out, and to a lesser extend, one of the Aliens v. Predator video games, they utilised imagery that was VERY CLOSE to the designs that I created for the initial abandoned film. Technically, I can’t say that I created the imagery that they used, because it was “work for hire” but as I have displayed on my blog, I am just displaying the similarities in the designs. (galactic-squid.com/)
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.
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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 Hybrids
The hybrids are a race of Aliens created by a corrupted computer system called "Toy". The hybrids possess the traits of Aliens, Predators and humans. Like Aliens, they are a eusocial species with acid for blood (though it is less acidic than that of the ordinary strain) and like humans, they are capable of speech and can use firearms. They are led by a hybrid king which generates facehuggers capable of impregnating ordinary Aliens.
Appears in: Aliens vs. Predator: Deadliest of Species"
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| The hybrid chestburster |
Alien vs Predator "hybrid" chestburster
The 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 the less. The final design as seen in the maquette replica photo reflects very much the concept work drawn by Patrick Tatopoulos , one of the illustrators working on the film.
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| concept design by Patrick Tatopoulos |
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| Sideshow's maquette replica |
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