Comments on: Aliens Storyboards (1) http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2008/12/19/aliens-storyboards/ Welcome to Sci-Fi-O-Rama! A visual scrapbook for cataloging inspiring Art, Graphics and Illustration with a Sci-Fi and Fantasy Slant. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:46:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: » Storyboarding the News: How the MSM Turned the Honduran Crisis into A Comic Book - Big Journalism http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2008/12/19/aliens-storyboards/comment-page-1/#comment-1733 » Storyboarding the News: How the MSM Turned the Honduran Crisis into A Comic Book - Big Journalism Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:56:03 +0000 http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/?p=662#comment-1733 [...] storyboard is a sequence of pictures that tell a story, like a comic strip.  In Hollywood or on Madison Avenue, the storyboard is used as a production guide for building a narrative.  In [...] [...] storyboard is a sequence of pictures that tell a story, like a comic strip.  In Hollywood or on Madison Avenue, the storyboard is used as a production guide for building a narrative.  In [...]

]]> By: Link Backlog | Programmer's Log http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2008/12/19/aliens-storyboards/comment-page-1/#comment-645 Link Backlog | Programmer's Log Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:34:47 +0000 http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/?p=662#comment-645 [...] Aliens Storyboards (1) Not quite as cool as Ridley Scott storyboards but an interesting insight. [...] [...] Aliens Storyboards (1) Not quite as cool as Ridley Scott storyboards but an interesting insight. [...]

]]> By: Kie http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2008/12/19/aliens-storyboards/comment-page-1/#comment-574 Kie Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:30:39 +0000 http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/?p=662#comment-574 Yeah Cameron's Box-Butch hardware has a very distinctive look, many precursors visible in Terminator. I read that Cameron worked as a Truck Driver prior to film, which goes some way in explaining his gratuitous close-up-hydraulic porn... hmm kind of the best bit's when you think about it! ramp's closing, airlocks opening, light's pulsing, klaxon's wailing... Anyway some more bit's of trivia I have read: The APC was a modified airport tug: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/5308089.jpg The Drop-ship Cameron originally modeled himself: http://www.alienscollection.com/images/dropshipconceptart4.jpg Actually a fantastic expansion of Cameron's alien universe (no not AVP) is "The Colonial Marines Technical Manual" by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood, featuring full hardware schematic's and user's feedback! aslo included: space warfare-tatics, how an Synthetic's brain works! and a speculative alien autopsy.... great fun! http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Colonial-Marines-Technical-Manual/dp/0061053430 << From $45 on Amazon Yeah Cameron’s Box-Butch hardware has a very distinctive look, many precursors visible in Terminator. I read that Cameron worked as a Truck Driver prior to film, which goes some way in explaining his gratuitous close-up-hydraulic porn… hmm kind of the best bit’s when you think about it! ramp’s closing, airlocks opening, light’s pulsing, klaxon’s wailing…

Anyway some more bit’s of trivia I have read:

The APC was a modified airport tug: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/5308089.jpg

The Drop-ship Cameron originally modeled himself:
http://www.alienscollection.com/images/dropshipconceptart4.jpg

Actually a fantastic expansion of Cameron’s alien universe (no not AVP) is “The Colonial Marines Technical Manual” by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood, featuring full hardware schematic’s and user’s feedback! aslo included: space warfare-tatics, how an Synthetic’s brain works! and a speculative alien autopsy…. great fun!

http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Colonial-Marines-Technical-Manual/dp/0061053430 << From $45 on Amazon

]]> By: Dan McPharlin http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2008/12/19/aliens-storyboards/comment-page-1/#comment-571 Dan McPharlin Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:26:55 +0000 http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/?p=662#comment-571 Good point about the marines. Actually Black Hawk probably has more in common with Cameron's Aliens than it does with the original Alien, which I guess is what brought it to mind. Essentially Vietnam again - advanced military hardware ineffectual against a determined enemy better able to utilize its environment. Looking at the storyboards here I'm reminded of the extreme muscular 'boxiness' of the hardware in Aliens - gotta love that APC. I think Cameron really cemented that style in the 80s, and in this film it was the perfect antithesis to the sinuous biological shapes of the aliens. Good point about the marines.

Actually Black Hawk probably has more in common with Cameron’s Aliens than it does with the original Alien, which I guess is what brought it to mind. Essentially Vietnam again – advanced military hardware ineffectual against a determined enemy better able to utilize its environment.

Looking at the storyboards here I’m reminded of the extreme muscular ‘boxiness’ of the hardware in Aliens – gotta love that APC. I think Cameron really cemented that style in the 80s, and in this film it was the perfect antithesis to the sinuous biological shapes of the aliens.

]]> By: Kie http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2008/12/19/aliens-storyboards/comment-page-1/#comment-569 Kie Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:25:53 +0000 http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/?p=662#comment-569 Hey Dan, Aha, right that's an interesting idea, I actually thought that with Black Hawk Down it wasn't just the 'enemy' that was essentially faceless, it's also difficult to distinguish most the individual marines themselves once all in battle gear - though there's not a particularly large amount of character development anyway... a 2hr 'fly-on-the-wall' exposure to the brutality of Modern Warfare - definitely one of Scott's best Hey Dan,

Aha, right that’s an interesting idea, I actually thought that with Black Hawk Down it wasn’t just the ‘enemy’ that was essentially faceless, it’s also difficult to distinguish most the individual marines themselves once all in battle gear – though there’s not a particularly large amount of character development anyway… a 2hr ‘fly-on-the-wall’ exposure to the brutality of Modern Warfare – definitely one of Scott’s best

]]> By: Dan McPharlin http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2008/12/19/aliens-storyboards/comment-page-1/#comment-568 Dan McPharlin Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:35:54 +0000 http://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/?p=662#comment-568 I always got the feeling that <i>Black Hawk Down</i> was Scott's unofficial sequel to Alien - set in a hostile environment populated by hordes of relentless and faceless killers, only this time they were <i>Africans</i> not <i>Aliens.</i> I always got the feeling that Black Hawk Down was Scott’s unofficial sequel to Alien – set in a hostile environment populated by hordes of relentless and faceless killers, only this time they were Africans not Aliens.

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