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In his script, Damon Lindelof mentions that the giant face hugger like creature that Shaw gives birth to would be known as the Troglodyte and during Huante's explorations of the creature's name was shortened to The Trog.
He thought this creature should look like an black octopus, the back of it, or belly could be smooth with the beak of an architeuthis giant squid that Ripley liked.
One of his earliest visuals showing the blue squid like creature seemed to be inspired by a Chihuli sculpture.
Huante's creature was to have a back should look or felt like the back of a man, as if it should have a spine with multiple shoulder blades, or another way to describe it was an abstract of a man with three shoulder girdles stacked.
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| Likely inspiration, "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun" by William Blake |
Huante's creature was to have a back should look or felt like the back of a man, as if it should have a spine with multiple shoulder blades, or another way to describe it was an abstract of a man with three shoulder girdles stacked.
His view was that the face hugger from the original film was an abstract of human hands which in a way it certainly was.
However with further exploration, very soon this creature's name changed from Troglodyte to the Trilobyte because at one stage in its design, because later it would at one point take inspiration from the form of Trilobyte. Huante's was not content with the creature that we see in the final film.
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However with further exploration, very soon this creature's name changed from Troglodyte to the Trilobyte because at one stage in its design, because later it would at one point take inspiration from the form of Trilobyte. Huante's was not content with the creature that we see in the final film.
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- Carlos Huantes: The Trog… I never really had a chance to go at the Troglodyte properly. I thought it should be an abstract of a man, three shoulder girdles stacked. The facehugger was an abstract of human hands. The Trog, in my mind, should have not been a “creature” which is what it ended up becoming. ( Carlos Huante Interview by ThisBethesdaSea AVPGalaxy.net)
- Carlos Huantes: He thought about creatures that he referred to as Troglodytes that would be coloured like black octopus. The face or belly of it would be smooth with an achiteuthis beak that Ridley appreciated.
The back of this monster would resemble the back of a man with a spine with multiple should blades and Carlos wanted it to look like man's back (See Carlo Huante's Prometheus notes)
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