Alien – Storyboards
Images from the original Alien Storyboard.
Ridley Scott’s pre-production storyboards for 1979 Sci-Fi Horror Movie Alien, 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’s first dabbling in film 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 successful 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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2018 Note:
Ridley Scott did not draw these, a storyboard artist was commisioned. Any info as to who would be greatly appreciated.
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i did not know ridley could draw like this
he had his own style and everything! (evidenced the most in the details of the helmet in the top image, i think)
Hey Josh,
yeah they’re great aren’t they – He does have his own drawing style.. quite distinctive..
This Drawnings are a masterpiece
I totally agree ! a really great style…. wonder how much he draws these days?
The storyboards were drawn by Moebius according to a documentary about the making of the film that you can find on Youtube. They said that the studio was so impressed with Moebius’ drawings that they doubled the amount given for the production,
Mmm, that’s interesting, I alway thought it was someone else, what’s the documentary Gary, do you have a link?.
I wonder where you got the info that these are not drawn by Ridley Scott. These ARE Ridleygrams, no doubt about it. They were NOT produced by Moebius, this is not his style at all, just take a look at the storyboards he did for Jorowsky’s Dune, for Time Masters or for Tron. It is not the same style. Giraud’s hand is much tighter and precise. Scott’s sketches are more those of a designer, the hand is looser, there is a very British quality to them.