The Prometheus ship looks based upon and inspired by 'Modern Art' subjects...

The frog actually looks not unlike what David is pulling out of the urn. [url=http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/prometheus-ship-blueprint.jpg][img]http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/prometheus-ship-blueprint.jpg[/img][/url] The ship is interesting because it looks like part turtle and part bird (perhaps even the eagle from the mythology itself) and part dune-buggy; depending on the angle. If you rotate the engine profile, it even has something of a cthulh vibe going on. [center][img]http://masempul.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/cthulhu.jpg[/img][/center]

Just the two images at the top ... There is a similarity to the Francis Bacons Painting which incidentally was an inspiration for the Alien itself in the original Alien film...

Doesn't the second image look like Giger's "Turkey" Chest-burster design (his first attempt till RS told him to try again). Maybe that picture was his influence. LOL...It IS Giger's Turkey-Burster: HRGiger: "My first design of the chestburster had more than one mouth. The mouth was the most important thing because it had to eat out of his body. But we made it smaller and Roger Dicken built the small alien". (Alien Collectors edition, p32) [url=http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2009/06/f-creating-alien-lifeforms.html]SOURCE[/url]

@Id Rather Be Eatin Something Else Hm. Well, my own response to your actual question is that I'd be surprised if there was a direct influence - certainly not specifically. Perhaps Contemporary Art, in general, but even then I think it would be indirect. As far as the actual Prometheus is concerned, I'd imagine the influences would be more from the various branches of Engineering, the branches of Design - and other Science Fiction. Not to say what you suggest wouldn't have applied historically, but machines like Prometheus have tended to be outside of that kind of influence from Movements in Art since about the mid-20th century. I love it, 'though. You appear to be declaring yourself a Dadaist.

Okay fair enough some of the imagry I have posted further up may not necessarily but you don't know what the producers sifted through and thought about prior to pre-production... Their could in fact be an element of truth to what I say...

Ridley Scott himself as well as Giger have been known to base their inspiration upon other peoples insipration... Its not wise to pooh pooh ro rule anything out unless you've discovered that the person/s you've done criticizing actually have an instinctive insight into such matters... Its just an idea thats all... [img]http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/917/irbesea.jpg[/img] [img]http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2299/irbeseb.jpg[/img] [img]http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/9092/irbesed.jpg[/img] [img]http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/2939/irbesec.jpg[/img] [img]http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/917/irbesea.jpg[/img]

it made me laugh, which is a good thing

Since we've started a discussion on things that are completly comparable. This frog would kick a facehugger az. [url=http://news.discovery.com/animals/sanctuary-deadliest-animals-120511.html]http://news.discovery.com/animals/sanctuary-deadliest-animals-120511.html[/url]

I think it is a literally ridiculously TREmendous stretch of a sane person's credibility and imagination to suggest something like this - which is why I love it! I support it, but what have you got in here - Giger for Alien? Wouldn't that be "Commercial"? Is that Francis Bacon? Hm..

No thanks, I prefer the sources of inspiration for the Derelict [img]http://i1244.photobucket.com/albums/gg561/spacejockey1/4474468-franc-s-croissant-relleno-de-crema-y-fresas-frescas.jpg[/img]

someone posted this before, but it looks a hell of a lot like the ship from Firefly: [img]http://www.bashinginminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/qmx-cerberusprint.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.vfocus.com/~bcj/Cortex/Firefly.jpg[/img]

@Jim100a100 WTF!!! Where do you find this?

@Shambhala that's from the (now long cancelled) series "Firefly" later became a movie, "Serenity" Highly recommend you check out both. The series ran for one season- great stuff. Sort of a Star Trek/Western mix

@Jim100a100 Thanks for recommending this stuff (the seeketh immediately), and WOW! the resemblance with the Prometheus Deesa ship is huge XP

2fray2 was nice enough to translate a long article from French to English earlier today with a bunch of interviews with the designers of Prometheus, and they touch on the ship design specifically: [i]We wanted the Prometheus to have the scale of a giant cargo ship, but it is also capable of maneuvering on the surface of the planet and land with grace an agility of a vertical takeoff aircraft. When the idea of a VTOL craft was pitched, we decided to use the giant engines like landing gears that could swing down, and from which the hydraulics would deploy to cushion the impact. This concept gave us an animal-like silhouette, a kind of giant mechanical creature standing on all four legs. We decided to emphasize this analogy by giving the ship a "head" that would incorporate the navigation bridge. This section is attached to the main part of the "body", where such sections as freight and engineering are...[/i] P.S. when someone designs something for a movie, it isn't modern art. "Modern art" was a real art movement that includes different types of abstraction including cubism. It was over and done with by 1970. In my opinion, abstraction is almost the exact opposite of Zoomorphism, which seems to be the way the ship was designed according to the article.

@Jim wow that ship looks nice.. @topic no, I dont think that a direct influence as Francis Bacon is in there. maybe that Hans Rüdi Giger is personally influenced, but I would doubt that, as he is more influenced by his personal obsessions.. Actually design itself is a section of arts, so..Giger is an industrial designer..

Yeah, I know. It just looks as though there is a little bit of a 'SLIGHT' shape corellation between both the Turkey Burster and the slight 'shape' reference of the Prometheus. Only a barely observable symmetry of the minniaml line and resemblance such as if you were to superimpose the Prometheus over the Turkey Burster 'shape'or vise-versa, you could infer a basic 'homage' if you will between one shape and the other.

@Id Rather Be Eatin Something Else: I like your thoughts....quite a pick you made in there!

Particularly if you look at the third image of the Prometheus ship and the fourth image of the 'Turkey Burster' in particular the Turkey Burster in the top right hand corner then glance back up to image three of the Prometheus then back down to the Turkey Burster in the top right hand corner and so on back and forth you do begin to see a similarity in the outer-shape of the two. Note that the legs at the back of the Turkey Burster raise up as the back-thrusters do of the Prometheus and the forward limbs are in a lower position as the Prometheus' forward thrusters are in the downward position at the front. Again, just an observance on outer-hull asthetics...

I think its more influenced by actual film designs.. here, from planet of the vampires ( director Maria Brava) 1965.. [URL=http://www.imagebanana.com/view/ap0ybu6e/planetofthevampires2.jpg][IMG]http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/ap0ybu6e/thumb/planetofthevampires2.jpg[/IMG][/URL] or others