Alien: Development of HR Giger's wreck exterior

leading from

Alien: The Derelict

 

a) See:  Overview of my attempt to trace the source of ideas

b) See: Giger's derelict concept sketches

 

 

 

 

 

c) See: March 1978, Designing the derelict exterior

 

 

d) See: Alien: Wreck (Work 374 ) (1978) by HR Giger

 

  Giger's derelict painting (Work 374: Wreck) that bears qualities of an Escher drawing

 

 

e) See: March 1978, Battle between O'Bannon and Scott over the derelict

f) See: July 1978, Changes to the Derelict 
 

Wreck Detail (work 396) (1978) by HR Giger for Alien

  

 

g) See: Alien: Landscape with Wreck (work 397) for Alien. (1978) by HR Giger

Landscape with Wreck (work 397) for Alien. (1978) by HR Giger

 

 

h) See: Later stages of the derelict design stemming from "Our Man In Havana" via Jack Kirby

 

 

 

i) See: Comparison to Foss spacecraft designs

 

j) See: Comparison to a spiral and a French curve 

 

 

k) See: Comparison to a Record Insert Adapter and the Triskellion

 

 

 

 

l) See: Influence from the Ancient Egyptian barge of a million years