A cool CG rendering has just hit the web:
A cool CG rendering has just hit the web:
I think this awesome pic comes from jtparker WEYLAN YUTANI site...
Fred
Yeah, if I could only get time to finish the site..I will probably need to hire people to do it!lollol:lol
Actually its Solomon Shipyards, complete with sandy beaches, fully serviced repair platforms, and convenient reactor-waste disposal facility
Oh, sweet...out of the Solomons. What's the URL?
Great pic of the yellow Nostromo, Karl !!!
If you don't mind telling us, where did you find it ???
:love
Fred
Thanks!
More than likely it's a grab off of the Quadrilogy extras. Something from my files. :cool
I MUST go back to those DVDs !!! Thanks again, Karl !
:cool
jtparker, your Weylan Yutani site is a GREAT IDEA !!!
:love
Fred
Well, frosty Weylan yutani aspen beer will be a great product to sell, as well as the coffee mugs after a night of getting pissed
A piece of cyberspace related to the genesis of the Nostromo and again the words 'Foss' and 'Chris' are nowhere to be seen!
Someone above mentioned the gap between Cobb's concepts and the utilitarian look of the final Nostromo. Well, the missing element is Chris Foss, co-designer of spacecraft on the film along with Cobb.
I don't entirely agree. Not whether Foss elements made it into the final designs, but more the utilitarian look deriving from his work - I recall hearing or reading that the models initially did resemble the smoother Cobb look very closely and the 'yellow' pics do bear that out. So I think Scott and the modelmakers get most of the credit for the final hyper-detailed widgety look.
I'm a huge Foss fan though. It's really a damn shame that with several bites at the cherry (Jodorowsky's Dune, Superman, Alien), nothing overtly Fossian ever made it onto the big screen. I have a half-finished sculpt of his Dune pirate ship around here somewhere...
Always nice to meet a Foss fan. I was taking 'utilitarian' to mean not so much the greeblie crustification, of which there's never very much on a Foss ship, but rather the box forms, 'intakes', flaps etc. I'd agree that the final model surface is all Scott, Bower, Pearson et al. But I would say the yellow Nostromo surface looks more Foss than Cobb, since there seems to have been some vague attempt even to recreate the Foss 'dotting' as well as bits of check paint scheme...
Please... finish the sculpt of that Dune ship! Guess it's out of the bounds of the whole forum, but I'd love to see it. Any chance of pm-ing a photo over?
I love Chris Foss' work a lot (at least, the paintings from his book 20TH CENTURY FOSS) but I can understand why Ron Cobb finalized the ship design...
Foss' visions of the ship were too fantastic, to weird, Scott needed something more believable, more "NASA / WW2 bomber" to oppose it to Giger's twisted creations...
My 2 cents...
Fred