A section of Ridley Scott’s storyboard sketches for Bladerunner, demonstrating once again his flair for drawing and his passion for details. These dystopian scenes in particular – Deckards visit to the Tyrell Corp HQ – were inspired by Ridley’s youth and memories of the night-time vista of oil refineries and steel mills, the fabric of 60′s industrial Teeside (North East England).

Images from the original Alien Storyboard – Art by Ridley Scott.

Ridley Scott’s pre production storyboards for 1979 Sci-Fi Horror Movie Alien, show he’s a dab hand with the marker pens! these extremely detailed visuals serve to demonstrate just how meticulous his eye for visual design is. The top shows ‘Kane’ and ‘Lambert’ on the Nostromo’s bridge next down show’s ‘Jones’ the Ships cat, used in several of the ships memorable shots, the lower slides show members of the crew outside wearing the costumes based on the Concepts by Moebius also featured on this blog.

Ridley Scott first dabbling in film first started whilst studying Graphic Design at Londons Royal College of Art (RCA) between the years of 1960-1962, upon graduating he went on to work as a trainee set designer with the BBC. Ridley Worked on sucesfull Tv shows: Dr Who & Z cars before moving into directing TV adverts such as the “Hovis Bike Round”, then finally on to Hollywood and the rest is film history!

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