Alien vs Predator:Silhouette of the Alien Queen

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Borrowed from the Alien saga

The satellite that resembles the Alien Queen's head

a) Alien Queen Satellite illusion
An orbiting satellite around the planet Earth that discovers the frozen over island by the Antarctic, from one a certain angle resembles the silhouette of the alien queen's head. 

b) John Bruno who worked on the special effects designed it to make you think it was the alien queen from Aliens ejected from the Sulaco's landing bay and left floating out in space.

c) The satellite itself was six foot miniature with some animation moves added over it's top and elements of the CG Queen were added to it to enhance the shape.

The Alien Queen from Aliens

Source Quotes

1.   Paul Anderson, Lance Henriksen and Paul Anderson discuss the alien queen / satellite double image
   
   Lance Henriksen: This was great
   
   
   Sanaa Lathan: This looks like it's in the ocean
   
   
   Lance Henriksen: I, I, I thought I didn't know what I was seeing
   
   
   Sanaa Lathan: I know
   
   
   Lance Henriksen:And it becomes the satellite
   
   
   Paul Anderson: Yuh,
   
   
   Lance Henriksen: It's just great
   
   
   Sanaa Lathan: It looks like some kind of big creature
   
   
   Lance Henriksen: yes it does, like the queen
   
   
   Sanaa Lathan: Like some kind of space ship 
   
   
   Lance Henriksen: right
   
   
   Paul Anderson: It's supposed to be the alien queen and we built a, we built a satellite that when you look at it at a certain angle, it...it looks like the queen.
   
   
   Lance Henriksen: wow
   
   
   Paul Anderson: and then actually, we morphed bits of the CG queen onto it to kind of like enhance the shape.  (Aliens vs Predator DVD commentary)
2. John Bruno (special effects): I'm going to talk about this opening shot here. We wanted to relate back to Aliens when the queen goes flying out the dock of the ship out into space. we wanted to sort of reiterate that in the opening where you think you're seeing the queen in space, but what we're seeing is a six foot miniature satellite with some animation moves in it which were added over the top. This starts out , you think it's a queen.
   
   
   Tom Woodruff(?) : Now that's a different model from what you're about to reveal
   
   
   John Bruno: No, it's the model
   
   
   Tom Woodruff(?): Really, the same one?
   
   
   John Bruno: It's just CG, we erased and tracked and made the arms open.
   (Aliens vs Predator DVD commentary)