Aliens: Alien Egg Layer concept art for Aliens (film released 1986) Jim Cameron references Ugly (for the Ugly club) (work 415) (1979) by HR Giger?

 

leading from

 Aliens: Concept art for Alien Queen Egg Layer by James Cameron

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 HR Giger: Ugly (1979) (work 415) by HR Giger

a) One above the other. One gets the idea of how this complicated organic pipe form suspended in the air becomes the basis for the idea of the queen and egg sack suspended in the air, before looking for details to fill it in with from elsewhere

 

 

 

 

b) Ugly (work 415) (1979) by HR Giger

 Ugly (1979) by HR Giger

 

 

 

c) One above the other. One gets the idea of how this complicated organic pipe form suspended in the air becomes the basis for the idea of the queen and egg sack suspended in the air, before looking for details to fill it in with from elsewhere

 

 

 

 

d) Vaginal forms

 

 

e) The U shape here would be transformed into the alien queen 

 

 

f) The Y shape here would become the end of the egg sack rises up and becomes attached to the pipe