Alien's first facehugger design was originally bigger and grosser

The first Facehugger design for "Alien" was initially much larger and more grotesque. Thankfully H. R. Giger scaled it down ...
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Alien: Romulus Concept Art Reveals Grotesque Original Design for The Offspring

Alien: Romulus has cemented a place of infamy in the franchise, thanks to the climatic reveal of “The Offspring,” a xenomorph/human/Engineer hybrid creature, born from the infected womb of poor Kay ...
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'Alien' Creature Design Duo Takes Us Inside Their 20-Plus Years of Xenomorph-ing

Prior to Ridley Scott‘s Alien prequels — Prometheus in 2012 and now Alien: Covenant — each Alien movie had a strikingly different directorial vision. Scott’s 1979 classic was a “haunted house in space ...
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Inside the fiendish designs of Battle: Los Angeles’ alien war machines

Creating an alien invasion from scratch takes amazing design skills. Good thing TyRuben Ellingson, the designer who’s worked on Avatar, Hellboy and several other movies, was on the case. Ellingson ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Alien: Covenant’: How the Xenomorph Continues to Horrify Audiences Decades Later

The film's art director, creature design supervisor and a zoologist from the San Diego Zoo describe just what it is about the Oscar-winning franchise's titular monster that has played on audiences' ...