Ivan Manzella’s Creature Concept Art for Prometheus
Ivan Manzella is a creature designer & sculptor who has worked for a variety of film and TV related projects (IMDb) in which one of his latest being the ever popular television show Game of Thrones. He is also the key creature designer for Prometheus and you’ll find some of his work below starting with his Deacon designs. For a more extensive look at his art work for Prometheus, visit the artist’s homepage here http://www.krop.com/ivanmanzella
Now here’s The Trilobite or more commonly known as “cuddles” on fan sites
And finally here’s Frankenfield (mutated Fifield) which shares more characteristics with the original Giger design than how we see this creature below in the actual film.
Again, you can find more work on Ivan Manzella’s homepage here http://www.krop.com/ivanmanzella
These are so much better than what we see on screen. They should have kept some of these in tact.
love this design work, i can see how they got to the awesome design from the movie, using little elements from all of these peices to create the very new and very organic look to the new breed of alien , LOVE IT
@Image God:
Most of the off screen conceptual artwork and imagery is more realized than that appearing on screen. The Deacon, as conceived in the artwork is a sleek forward looking futuristic design. I wonder what made RS choose the lesser images?
Money? Time? Taste? Realism?
Thanks, once again, Image God aka @Viscal !
The first two are pretty much what was on screen.
Although personally, I didn’t need the “Deacon” second ending at all. I thought the film would have ended better with them flying off in the spaceship.
I see why they did it, but still – don’t think it was necessary.
terrible concept.
@prometheusfire08
Very new and organic, LMAO. It’s just a lame copy of creatures from Alien, can’t you realize that?
That pointy head plus color scheme looks awful (in the movie)… I liked its mouth though, minus its teeth, which shouldn’t be whiteish.
If Fifield looks more alienish like in the concept art, that would have been better.
I agree. If Fifield had evolved into something more alienesque after having been infected by the black goo then it would have made a direct connection with the origins of the alien creature.
I think Scott really wanted to divorce this movie from Alien as much as possible.
Its almost like he wanted to “reverse” the roles of the Xeno and Space Jockey IMO. In Alien we get a quick look at the Space Jockey and his ship. In Prometheus we get a quick look at the Xeno in the Mural.
nicely said
the goo turning fifeld into a xeno would have been a big plot hole that brought the rest of the movie down …..END OF!!! and also very very boring….how exactly does fifeld turning into a xeno make the movie better for you……oh yeah because you wanted to see another alien movie….seriously if i had seen ONE xeno in that movie i would have walked out…….my mrs said that when they began opening doors she was expecting a load of xeno’s or predator dogs to come running out killing people…..( and she did not meen it in a good way ) almost inducing eye rolling behaviour……thank god that it did not happen and the focus was kept on something other( and waaaaaaaay more interesting ) than them all being chased around in a spaceship for an hour by a monster ive been watching for the last 20years do the exact same……FOR 20 FUCKING YEARS……….scott has peeled back the layers and removed the ”obvious” links and kept the best stuff for the visual narrative throughout the movie……and there are enough references to alien without the actual monster being the same, christ even my mrs saw all the references and she isnt even a fan……her comment on the final xeno scene after the credits cued……” ahhh so the creature from alien evelved in a very different way? ‘.
the xeno that i know and love bursting out of the engineer at the end would have made 0 FUCKING SENSE STORY-WISE…….both creatures were obviously created in very different ways, it would be lazy writing to just have them both look the exact same…….like saying…” ah fuck it, nobody will notice anyway…just make them all look the same larry”…..
yeah…..i hate camerons aliens because the xeno is just a different kind…blah blah blah … and the dog alien….ruined those movies by changing the design….BOLLOX!!!
the alien queen…….just a different kind of xeno, shit though … and obvious!!
He’s not very good.
This is not creative creature design at all, not even the alternates, and the screen used choices were no better.
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ciao ivan, complimenti da tua cugina,siamo fieri di te! ciao a presto!