When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Deyan Baric/Alamy Stock Photo “I am afraid of my visions.” Thus spoke H.R. Giger, the ...

Every aspect of the finished Xenomorph sculpt is spot on. Even the chrome paint used for the creature’s teeth gives it that final cinematic touch. We think even the Xenomorph’s original designer ...

“I am afraid of my visions.” Thus spoke H.R. Giger, the artist whose paintings led to him being engaged by director Ridley Scott to design the xenomorph for the first Alien film in the late 1970s.

Behind two of cinema’s most iconic extraterrestrials stands a single creative genius whose mechanical wizardry breathed life into both nightmares and dreams. While H.R. Giger’s biomechanical artwork ...

When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...