Giger concept drawings for DUNE, museumsyndicateThere’s no question that Giger’s designs give people very divisive reactions – either you are absolutely floored by their concepts and design, or you are terrified beyond your wildest dreams. It’s easy to imagine that Giger might’ve gotten the same amount of attention he ended up receiving for Alien had this come out, but it just wasn’t meant to be. Giger was part of the early concept art for the film showcasing some designs that never really put to fruition. In the mid 70’s, Alejandro Jodorowsky was trying to bring Frank Herbert’s Dune to the big screen. Apparently it was his own source of nightmares, as it was born out of art therapy for his night tremors.
His style that would be come to be known as “biomechanical”, mixing lifeforms with technology. Giger, 1967You can see where many of his future concepts came from with this early drawing. According to the HR Giger Museum, he created some of his early celebrated pieces during that time such as The Astro-Eunuchs seen below. Even though he had a 9-to-5 job, he would spend his evenings creating larger ink drawings. While those designs might be his most memorable achievement, Giger created countless art pieces conjuring up nightmare fuel.īy 1967, at the age of 27, Giger was fully immersed in his art. Giger have tied everything together throughout the Alien series, even as the actors and actresses portraying the prey frequently change. Just take a cursory image search on Google for ‘Alien’ and the first thing that will come up is the design for the terrifying creatures from Giger’s pages. Art of the strange and grotesque was his forte.Īlien would not be what it is today without the art from H.R.
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