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Aliens: James Cameron's Alien Queen side view concept drawing references the Unicorn shipwreck from The Adventures of Tintin: Red Rackham's Treasure?


leading from



a) Jim Cameron's drawing of the side view of the alien queen for Aliens that would be released as a film in 1986

http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/shipwreck-from-adventures-of-tintin-and.html

b) The Unicorn shipwreck from The Adventures of Tintin and Red Rackham's Treasure from about 1944. 

My idea is that Jim Cameron would have heard about the use of Tintin illustrations as reference in the concept art for Alien. 

I might wonder if perhaps he found out from Ron Cobb who did some concept work for the Aliens production, or perhaps was there another channel for this sort of information.



c) Details on the back of the shipwreck becomes the upper torso of the creature. One can have thoughts about the windows frames and portholes become the various gaps in the creature's body and spaces in the side of the shell on the head.

 


d) Where the shipwreck is broken near the front would be where the lower spin and the pelvis of the alien queen can be found in the drawing. The broken mast becomes a spike, and the horizontal beam becomes an arm of the beast.


 


e) Lines running through the water become the alien queens head carapace shell, while as mentioned earlier the three curves on the jelly fish's body becom the trinary forms on the side of the front of the shell.



f) Jelly fish with tentacles becomes sides of the neck and shapes on the side of the front of the carapace



g) Detail of the jellyfish body next to near enough what seem like three shapes on the side of the front of the Alien Queen's shell.

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  1. "Aliens: James Cameron's Alien Queen side view concept drawing references the Unicorn shipwreck from The Adventures of Tintin: Red Rackham's Treasure" was posted on Monday 24th June 2019

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