The Oscar-winning Swiss set and creature designer of Ridley Scott's "Alien" died following a fall in his Zurich home. By The Associated Press H.R. Giger - P Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R.

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H.R. Giger poses with a prototype of his Xenomorph design for 'Alien.' The artist hoped to feature translucent version of the creature, but that version was abandoned before shooting began. (Courtesy ...

OSCAR winning artist H R Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic fil Alien, has died after a fall. Hans Ruedi Giger, 74, a surrealist artist, died in hospital on ...

Action is at the core of the new Aliens Fireteam Elite third-person shooter, but the scenery is lifted straight out of a feature-length film. The environments pay great respect to the macabre ...

Cult artist H.R. Giger was a big deal right after ALIEN was released in 1979. All of my friends ran out and bought his books Necronomicon and Giger’s Alien. His “biomechanical” designs had the ...

That’s the famous question posed by Ash (Ian Holm) in one of the many tense scenes of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien. Ash goes on: “Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its ...

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 ...

There’s a lot to love about Ridley Scott’s 1979 science-fiction horror film Alien, including the masterful directing, suspenseful screenplay written by Dan O’Bannon, and its compelling protagonist, ...