Show me the coolest aliens

Reznik

Long story short, dude needs an alien for a movie and has given a great deal of freedom to design said alien.

Now I'm in the process of looking up alien pictures to get inspiration.

H/A, I would like you to tell and show me what you think are the coolest looking aliens in games/tv/film/comics/whatever.

My personal choices are Thane and Garrus from Mass Effect, but I think this movie requires something a little more horrifying.

Also, no Greys. They are kind of boring.

Belruel

i'd start by clicking around on this place

a personal favorite of mine is the rancor

roooaaaar

Servo

the prawns from district 9 were pretty interesting looking.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

Man. What a terrible picture.

see317

You can't really go wrong with tentacles. I mean, the japanese love them, and if there's one thing the japanese know about it's alien monsters.

Do you have a size requirement? I mean, the "alien" from Watchmen (the comic), and the creature from Cloverfield are both pretty cool and fairly unique. But both are building crushingly huge so probably wouldn't work if they're supposed to be running away from them in a dark building.

celandine

Carl Sagan's "sinkers" and "floaters" are pretty intriguing.
http://posthumanblues.blogspot.com/2009/02/sinkers-floaters-and-hunters.html
Of course, "sinkers" and "floaters" make me think primarily of matzah balls.

MetroidZoid

Look up concept art for any games in the Metroid series, like this:

http://www.giantbomb.com/metroid-prime/61-15473/concept-art/52-104128/

Richard_Dastardly

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials is a fucking awesome book. And you can get it dirt cheap from Amazon.

The art is amazing.

see317

Richard_Dastardly wrote: »

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials is a fucking awesome book. And you can get it dirt cheap from Amazon.

The art is amazing.

He also did one for fantasy creatures. While it's not quite as alien, it still has some sweet arts in it.

Saddler

For visual reference, here are some actually existing things found in the sewers of North Carolina:

Tubifex Worms

Drswords

The creatures of Metroid are a favorite of mine. If you want a terrific alien design, just look at the Metroid itself. Its like an otherworldly Jellyfish with fangs, that sucks the very energy and lifeforce out of things.

Basically its a vampire jellyfish.

Also.. http://www.hrgiger.com/ ( potentially VERY NSFW )

He designed the aliens in the alien movies. He has some amazing designs on things. Also the creepiest stuff ive ever seen.

George Fornby Grill

You might do well to look at some of the crazier Deep-Sea lifeforms, there is some crazy shit in the ocean.

Drswords

Worthless Lurker wrote: »

You might do well to look at some of the crazier Deep-Sea lifeforms, there is some crazy shit in the ocean.

I couldn't watch Blue Planet, or Planet Earth when they covered The Abyssal seas.

That stuff is so freaky it gives me nightmares. ( Angler Fish especially. )

Doc

Drswords wrote: »

Worthless Lurker wrote: »

You might do well to look at some of the crazier Deep-Sea lifeforms, there is some crazy shit in the ocean.

I couldn't watch Blue Planet, or Planet Earth when they covered The Abyssal seas.

That stuff is so freaky it gives me nightmares. ( Angler Fish especially. )

it's the very same water you wade in at the beach.

Scalfin

The antispiral was cool. I can't think of anything like it:


He's there from 0:38 onward


Also, the things from the end of that show about the evolutionary future of earth were cool. What was that show called, again?


Also, the Navi:

Xagarath

Daleks.
Simply for managing to look neither like cgi/stop-motion/model effects nor just like a man in a suit.

Reznik

Those are some very cool aliens.

After talking with him again now it looks like he wants two, one flying and one on the ground. I think I'm going to go more for the deep sea/crazy insect kind of creature.

And it's going to be as disgusting as possible.

Somehow I will incorporate the anglerfish in there. Any other suggestions?

UBS

Make Octosapiens

MoosehatIV

You can never go wrong with illithids!

Echo

Reznik wrote: »

Somehow I will incorporate the anglerfish in there. Any other suggestions?

Read about the Rorschach aliens in Blindsight.

Though they're not half as scary as the humans.

Tejs

Reznik wrote: »

Long story short, dude needs an alien for a movie and has given a great deal of freedom to design said alien.

Now I'm in the process of looking up alien pictures to get inspiration.

H/A, I would like you to tell and show me what you think are the coolest looking aliens in games/tv/film/comics/whatever.

My personal choices are Thane and Garrus from Mass Effect, but I think this movie requires something a little more horrifying.

Also, no Greys. They are kind of boring.

If you are looking for something 'horror'-ish, go with something that just isn't human in any way. Don't make it biped, don't make it speak english, give it unnatural contortional ability (super flexibility), and for the love of anything, don't give it human facial features. Instead of a mouth, use a proboscis or have it absorb things like an amoeba. Use multiple eyes, or a single compound eye - anything to break apart the human facial recognition or patterns we love to use.

Gabriel_Pitt

Richard_Dastardly wrote: »

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials is a fucking awesome book. And you can get it dirt cheap from Amazon.

The art is amazing.

I was going to recommend Barlowe's Expedition.


http://www.amazon.com/Expedition-Account-Artwork-D-Voyage/dp/0894809822/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262812457&sr=8-1

Scalfin

Unlike the giant squid, whose arms and tentacles only have suckers lined with small teeth, the Colossal Squid's limbs are also equipped with sharp hooks: some swiveling, others three-pointed.

Zombiemambo

see317 wrote: »

Richard_Dastardly wrote: »

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials is a fucking awesome book. And you can get it dirt cheap from Amazon.

The art is amazing.

He also did one for fantasy creatures. While it's not quite as alien, it still has some sweet arts in it.

And he did one for hell, which is pretty awesome.