bird alien

Ridley Scott : lethal eggs, inside of which are these er... small creatures that will actually fundamentally integrate in a very aggressive way into any society or any place it dropped. So if you land on a human being, you have a... a resemblance to a human being. If it dropped on an ostrich, it would look like an ostrich (Alien Quadrilogy and blu-ray commentary)

Further Space Jockey concept explorations

I was thinking about designing the very tall figure with the hat from the relief on the Sokar Funerary Procession mural Temple of Rameses III at Medinet Habu (See: rough concept for Rough concept for biomechanisation of The Sokar Funerary Bark relief) as if it were a biomechanoid space jockey with a non human face and found that the face started to almost resemble the face of the Mayan Space Jockey relief on the Mayan starmap tablet from Prometheus, including the pipe entering the mouth, and perhaps in the unused Egyptian space jockey tablet the pipe was entering the mouth (although that one might have been more usable if they just had a beard with biomechanoid ribbing on the figure.)  I found that the helmet that would have started off being the crown worn by Rameses III grew longer and longer until it began to resemble a caterpillar cocoon of some sort and then it seems that this resembles the headgear worn by one of the females in Giger's The Spell II that looks also as if it could be some sort of a relative of the trilobite.But this is just my exploration and it could have gone any way it chose and perhaps there are not too many directions. The breathing pipe here ends with a snake head

Head of unused Egyptian Space Jockey starmap tablet for
Prometheus and also the head of the Mayan Space Jockey from
Mayan Starmap tablet from Prometheus

Rameses III with crown

female from Giger's The Spell II

rough concept for biomechanisation of The Sokar Funerary Bark relief

a) Rough concept for biomechanisation of The Sokar Funerary Barque relief at the Temple of Rameses III at Medinet Habu. Showing engineers carrying the Space Jockey chair with pilot in the manner of the Sokar Funerary Barque procession. This generally works as Prometheus fan art. However the third engineer from the left has been given head markings that associate him with Master Burg from Moebius' Aedena Cycle comic book stories.

b) The taller figure on the right has a pipe emanating from beneath his chin in the manner that Giger has had a breathing pipe on some of his space jockey type characters, such as in his picture Atom Kinder and indeed the Life Cycle Hieroglyphics, the Space Jockey type victim in the altered version of the painting has a breathing pipe emanating form below the chin. See: detail from Hieroglyphics
c) See also Evolution Of Space Jockey From Egyptian book of the Dead at the Alien Explorations blog

d) The original relief is below.

source of image www.thebes-louxor.net/

Moebius' Master Burg as an Engineer from Prometheus

preliminary sketch of Moebius' Master Burg as an Engineer from Prometheus

a) Preliminary study sketch or Moebius' character Master Burg manifesting as an engineer from the movie Prometheus while manifesting from his hand energy forming in the shape of two entwining serpentine thing , one with a head similar to a carnivorous flower from the movie The Wall as part of an exploration of the crossing streams of influences in the movie Prometheus.


b) CLICK HERE  to see details about Moebius and the character Master Burg in relation to the movie Prometheus see

Alien inspired by Vidocq

In 2002, I watched the movie Vidocq made in 2001 by Pitof who was one of the star people in production department of Alien Resurrection. I noticed the scene where the human victims of the alchemist are found hanging inverted having their blood drained into a central pool, it reminded me of Sylvain Despretz' concept art of inverted cocooned people in the queen's layer having their blood drained into a central pool to feed the newborn.

The featureless mirror mask of the Alchemist became my new alien, perhaps something such as the alien King that people always talked about or the Primogenitor that they also talked about. I imagined that the mask became a gelatinous covering which could shape shift and a maw would open up through which the alien's inner mouth and skull would be at times visible. I thought that the original Alien's face could not be beaten so it was time to withdraw from anything further interesting and new.

It looked though in Prometheus concept designs, they were asking the same sorts of questions looking at the same sort of concept and my thoughts about an alien inspired by the alchemist and an alien layer inspired by his seemed even more important

See: Vidocq at the Alien Explorations site

chamber of Cocooned victims, their blood dripping down to collect in a pool down below December 2013

And from the pool of blood the alien creature springs
December 2013

Alien creature slightly inspired by the Deacon from Prometheus.
December 2013

Space Jockeys with Sommelier knife/ Waiters Friend bodies 2

see also:

Space Jockey's with Sommelier knife/ Waiters Friend bodies

The concept of the space ship in its hand roughly reflects the idea of the 

ancient Egyptian reliefs showing pharoahs offering small Henu Barqs to 

the gods,  and the Henu barq is the inspiration behind the design of the 

Space Jockey in its chair.  

(The first sketch is the lead up to to the last in this page)

See also Small Boat of Sokar at the Temple of Denderah

Space Jockey 18th December 2013

Drawing aliens after Gravity

see also

Gravity - Gravitalien - Alien

Initial sketch revealing giant alien astronaut in ancient derelict rocket capsule

sketch exploring space jockey in giant derelict space capsule

as above with black background

Study  space jockey remains imbedded in the interior of space capsule