Some new images have surfaced, I'm digging the design a lot more now and honestly pretty impressed/happy to see a fully pratical xeno suit (just hoping they don't cover it completely with CG)
what do you guys think?
Looks a lot like the “classic” Big Chap, and I suppose that the back exhausts and some details will be retouched with cg, but it does look awesome, I love the head shape
Maybe not as sometime stuff gets real complicated. Especially when it involves Giger and he didn’t like Alien 3’s more radical changes than what he wanted and was commissioned for.
All of his work on alien was as a commissioned concept artist, and his estate (whoever holds it) has no right to the design.
With Alien 3, he was actually asked to redesign the creature for it and he wanted to make even more radical changes: full fleshy lips, a different tongue, a more catlike silhouette... The final design actually toned things down but still took inspiration from Giger's idea of a more nimble-looking, lightly built alien.
It's purely wanting to put your own stamp on it, fit the visual style of the movie better, or practical considerations like using CGI or puppets alongside suits, etc. People who think this is a rights issue have no clue how moviemaking works, the Internet is full of nonsensical rumors like this.
Why are there almost no biomechanical features on the arms or legs? And why are the back tubes so short? Hopefully these things will be added in with cgi.
By the looks of it, this xeno may just be for the little teaser close-up:
Based on the color grading of the little snippet, and the lighting and or colors of the bts photos, I'm leaning more on this simplified xeno just being for this teaser close-up with the head in focus.
You’re actually dead on. Cam is directly in front of the suit actor and even on the monitor behind them you can see they’re checking for the lighting on the dome
On the first picture, the skull under the head carapace doesn't look human. I wonder if that's why there are other physical differences from what we're used to seeing.
They change the look every time because it’s the nature of the Xeno itself: its appearance depends on the host and the environment.
Alien: “average” xeno born from humans
Aliens: introduced different classes born from the queen and not by eggmorphing (of course this still includes the facehuggers)
Alien3: xeno born from an animal
Resurrection: xenos cloned and experimented upon
Prometheus: not a xeno
Covenant: a reverse engineered version of a xeno
Romulus: cloned and reverse engineered xenos
Maybe this new xeno has a different origin altogether, or they simply refined a 45 year old design. Either way, we are talking about BTS photos, not the final product
Yea no feeling this one getting avp studio adi vibes.I'll still give the show a chance..I really want the next alien movie/show to give the ridge dome xeno a shot again.
It’s again a new design iteration. It kind of has more “nose”, the space between the dome and the lips and teeth. And also a different jaw and detailing on the side. I kind of don’t like the side view, looks a but goofy.
The arms just look like gloves, strong "man in a rubber suit" vibes. Not crazy about the face, but at least they kept the biomechanical aesthetic in the head design.
Overall, the series is going to be a nostalgia milking shitfest anyway. Bringing aliens to Earth in a prequel is a fundamentally misguided idea, showing the creators don't know what they're doing.
My only concern is they trying to feed the audience with baby Xenomorphs and and family Xenomorphs just making their way in the galaxy... as other shows recently did....
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u/erpietra01 3d ago
Looks a lot like the “classic” Big Chap, and I suppose that the back exhausts and some details will be retouched with cg, but it does look awesome, I love the head shape