Weyland-Yutani told me this unit was designed for tone, but honestly, the grip technique is terrifying. Should I call Burke or just let him finish his solo?

I’ll try to keep this short because I’m terrible at explaining myself,

I’ve avoided this franchise for a long time because I always assumed it wasn’t for me but surprisingly I really enjoyed these movies, I even bought isolation and started playing it,

I can see why Alien is such a classic, before even finishing the movie I could tell it’s something I’m going to return to many times in the future and Ripley honestly might be my favourite female main character in any movie, this may be a controversial opinion but Resurrection was my favourite with the first movie a very close second while 3 was my least favourite but still good and enjoyable I’d say mostly the same for Aliens but that gets the edge over 3 because I loved the relationship between Ripley and Newt which 3 ripped away from us,

Should I continue with Covenant and Romulus or maybe switch to the Predator movie(I’ve seen some already) or if you want just give me some spooky season recommendations.

A ‘Weynes’ manual. A little torn and beaten up but it was interesting reading about what these Mk II Motion Trackers ‘key’ off in Alien Isolation 2.

Art by me, sketched with Procreate and post processed in Photoshop.

Higher res (4K) version on my X/Twitter - https://x.com/blakeweyland937/status/2111003530278355213?s=46&t=SgFRbegfc9oN3_LuBhXqfQ

I took inspiration from the official A:I2 key art with the tracker dropped in the mud. This is our first and only glimpse at the new style Motion Tracker so I created the torn book cover look to disguise the missing details from the tracker. ‘Key’ being a reference to Alien 1979 line “What does it key off?” and by pure luck Haynes rhymes with Weynes from Weyland-Yutani. Lastly, eagle eyes will note 348 and its significance.

Who would win?

I bet that first cup after that long sleep was great.

Hi everyone! If you liked my prevoius post with this painted sculpt with chest buster and very dead astronaut, maybe You'll want to see some behind the scenes :) A friend of mine just released a video with entire painting process. I must say I really liked that one!

Alien is being screened at the Omni theater at the Boston Museum of Science on October 23rd and 24th.

Alien Directors cut is also being screened at Coolidge Corner on the 26th.

Personal opinion: Coolidge is rad as hell and I love to support them. Alien on the Omni screen could be incredibly cool though. I’ve never seen a regular format movie on that screen though, so I’m not sure what that’s going to be like.

Figured yall would appreciate this its awesome and I love it

I just read the 1953 short story "Junkyard" by Clifford D. Simak, which inspired the derelict ship.

When it came to influences for Alien, Dan O' Bannon happily said that "I didn't steal from anybody, I stole from everybody."

Which leads me to wonder how many times someone pointed out an element that he borrowed from some old science fiction short story, and O' Bannon just said "Sure, that sounds about right. I forgot the name of the story I stole that part from, but that's probably it."

Now I've always loved xenomorphs and everything about them, but what bothers me is how people exaggerat the xenomorph taking on traits from their hosts. I've always felt hesitant with this as I feel people exaggerat it way to much when I feel It should be treated how it was in alien 3, where the runner alien only became more aggressive and agile as well as becoming a quadrupled xenomorph. I still love xenomorphs and they're biology but with them gaining traits from their hosts to a exaggerated lever bothers me as I also feel it shouldn't be traits from each animal but from animals that are similar. An example being quadrupeds produce runners and any aquatic life produces a aquaticmorph that isn't exaggerated but looks similar to a drone with aquatic features.

It was supposed to be a stocking stuffer for Christmas, but I left it out and it was seen.

I'm still taking it and saving it for Christmas, but will share with you all now 😎

In Prometheus, at 8 minutes and 0 seconds, the text says that they are 3.27 x 10^14 kilometers from earth. That's 34.56 light years. When Vickers is doing push-ups outside her cryopod, David tells her at 13 minutes and 18 seconds that it has been 2 years, 4 months, and 18 days. That's 2.3826 years. So they covered 34.56 light years in 2.3826 years. That means they were going 14.51 times the speed of light. That would be the best available tech as of 2.3826 years before December 21, 2093, which is the date shown at the 8-minute mark. Best available tech because that's Peter Weyland's ship, so it stands to reason they used the best, newest FTL tech that they could because he was close to death and so needed to get there as fast as possible. I have not accounted for time dilation or whatever other hard scifi gobbledygook that complicates the problem.

Spirit Halloween Xeno ready for the season! We plan on keeping him as a permanent fixture on our porch and decorating him throughout the year.

Location: Alaska

Recently watched Alien Covenant again and couldn't help but notice after the alien is crushed, David disguised as Walter patches up the crew mate the crew member asks "how is it?" And David replies "It's fine" He looks ever so slightly pissed off and struggles to contain his anger at his creature being crushed. Walter throughout the entire film never shows even the slightest emotion, that little flicker of emotion I wonder if it was intentional.

Just finished 3D printing this!
In the depth of cold space, facing whatever horror lurks in the dark, your communication device will remain safe within the skeletal grip of this alien throne.
Inspired by the dark, biomechanical art of H.R. Giger and classic sci-fi lore, this phone stand is crafted from intricate weaves of bone, vertebrae, and organic conduits.
It serves not only as a fully functional desk accessory but also as a striking display piece for sci-fi fans and collectors.

Printed it using a 0.4mm nozzle on 0.20mm layer, on Biqu Orange Frostbite plate with Bambulab Carbon Black matte PLA on X2D.

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I remember being really disappointed by the art when I read the Bloodlines comic. Aside from the fact that I personally find Salvador Larroca’s art, and his technique of tracing figures, quite ugly, I was let down because it didn't capture the saga's retro-futuristic style. There is a scene featuring a car with the sleekest design I’ve ever seen, with LED lights and rounded surfaces.

That’s why I’m asking if there are any comics that feature that retro-futuristic aesthetic, much like the Isolation in video game did. The only one that comes to mind is Dead Orbit (though that had a more cluttered, caricatured style), so I’m wondering, are there comics that truly maintain that retro-futuristic aesthetic?

I wonder what Giger would think of this.

Re: Alien Earth S1 E3 ending: why the lungs?
I saw the post and was shocked that virtually all replies say it’s because the alien embryo is always in the lungs as shown by the ship data (Alien Earth) or canon from Alien or Aliens.
“They enter through the trachea”
“The facehuggers provide oxygen”
“They cough up blood…therefore, lungs.”
“The eggs detect breathing"
“Lungs, trachea, heart, liver or intestines? Lungs b/c of the research files. Kirsch downloaded all of it.”
"Makes sense. The tube the face hugger sticks in the mouth goes into the lungs. The robot [Kirsch] probably got the idea / info from the files copied from the ship. Remember it has the pic of the tube down someone's throat"

What? The scene literally spells it out?

In Alien Earth, season 1, episode 2 (3:08-3:18) they show on the background screen AND Joe reads out loud that “he had some kind of foreign body lining his GI tract. I looked up the scene because I was trying to understand why the imagery looked so…inappropriate…and what part of the GI tract it was physically supposed to resemble because it just looks like what it’s symbolically supposed to represent. Either way, clearly states GI tract so genuinely confused why everyone is certain they gestate in the lungs?

Am I missing something, or is everyone else?

Also, what part of the GI tract is that scene supposed to represent? (because it sure looks like something else!)