What does that hose go to, air?

@ Spartacus.. once again you give a gift!

Thanks I mean well I really do lol.

another pic of back [img] http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/163/5/c/Space_Jockey_WIP_by_Watkinsons.png [/img]

@blake, Are those renders from one of the video games?

has always looked like a big "A" to me, hoose?

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@abordoli i just typed in space jockey but im sure they're designed the same. its a cool find. i think that what its for

i mean it is confirmed to be a suit afterall

@Spartacus... Why don't they freeze him?

lol, tx man. haha

How come you guys don't freeze him?

that painting was done back in 78/79 and was to be used in a scene for Alien ( the temple scene) but the scene was dropped. the astronaut pictured is not meant to be a space jockey just a 'generic" astronaut, that helps depict the life-cycle of the Alien. that second picture looks like some atrocious attempt to model a space jockey in 3d!

@nostromo77 thanks man for CLEARING MY QUESTIONS UP. im so tired of people bein smartasses here. thanks for answering my question.

Rick Roll'd.

There's a different version of the pic which has a SJ-looking creature falling victim to the facehugger, not an astronaut

What is to the left of the bottom picture with the astronaut lying down? Looks like a pet dog alien's rear section....???

It's the dead facehugger

Facehuggers don't have a dog-like torso, a hind leg (although this one is curled a bit) and a dog-tail....Please look again. Bottom panel...to the left of the lying astronaut's head.

Consider that this drawing was made before the actual puppets were realized, and Giger didn't work himself on the final version of the FH, so its final look differs from what Giger had in mind. Just compare the dead one with the one impregnating the astronaut, in the second tier: it's the same thing. And finally, it makes totally sense to me to show in the life cycle that the facehugger is dead, the drawing is complete, and wouldn't be otherwise.