After watching Prometheus, did you guys like the design of the engineer, either

Yes. I liked the design a lot. :)

What Svanya said up there ^^^

To Ali3n I liked the engineers - only thise dark eyes are little disconserting. Just out of curiosity what would you have liked to see ? Or are you just saying you feel the could have done better ? I have no artistic!drawing ability so I always admire the folks who can draw and sketch !!! Maybe someone can hook us up with a few alternate sketches of engineers ?

yes. Im very fond of the engineers (both narratively and in a design sense).

I have no problem with the muscular-alabaster design of the Engineers because they remind me of Michaelangelo's David sculpture, oh and David Lean made the Lawrence of Arabia film that David loves, oh and David slew Goliath THE GIANT MEGA-CORP his dad runs. David, David, David; it always has to be about you, doesn't it? Actually, I do have two obvious gripes: 1) I didn't see SpaceJockey chair as a driver suit, more a grown-together elephant thingy but that's contentious and not what Ridley delivered so I'm up shit creek without a paddle hoping against hope... LOL 2) Engineer looks a bit Mongoloid, to me. PS: I really like THIS DESIGN, he glows inside and is about the 'expected' size (based on Alien film) [img]http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c157.0.403.403/p403x403/427846_328369073926823_523822402_n.jpg[/img]

Mongoloid? I think indian with american :D

I actually liked the design of the engineers, something new and unexpected although like FreePlanet i would have loved to see the actual elephantine giant space jockey, other wise not bad :)

They are magnificent and spooky specimens of alienness.

the engineer was pretty cool. Everything about the engineer was good, the suits , the chair everything was good.

YES! The Engineer was a definite hit for me!

Yes, very much! But i was originally hoping for something more like this: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-Lkqu1zUo]Alternate Space Jockey[/url]

@necronom 4 hell yes, alien "space jockey" beats engineer anytime :D

I'm quite happy with their design. In Alien, I assumed the big guy in the chair was a random alien in his suit, and not necessarily an elephant-like creature. He could of looked like anything underneath that. So I'm happy with their god-like, human-like appearance in Prometheus. And their tech is just amazing!

i'm sorry, but i just don't find idealized Greek statues with Elvis' smile scary in anyway. Maybe they aren't supposed to be, but i think scary is *WAY* cooler than statuesque personally... [img]http://www.prometheus-movie.com/media/sacrificial_engineer_prometheus1.jpg[/img]

I dont think they was intended to be Scary or Alien.... I liked the design and i think it fits in well with the plot they are using thats loosely basing the Engineers off the many Ancient Cultures depictions of Gods. Not talking the Abrahamic Religions but the other many older ones. That was that we was created and visited by a Race of Giant Star Gods. I love their look, and i also liked the Engineers. The only change i would have made would had been to stick to the plan and concepts, the concept works show the Engineers to be between 9-12ft tall. The idea and some production staff had said that they was 9-10ft tall. So my disapointment was well if you actually measure and work out the height of the Engineers in Prometheus they range from 7.5ft to 8.5ft and the Last Engineer appears to vary a bit in size depending on what angle and shot he used. But far to many shots of the Engineer with the Humans did not work out as Ridley's attempt to make him look large failed, this is evident by having him in certain angles and stand on things out of shot to make him appear large to David and Weyland but then the shots when he attacks Ford and Shaw well they show his true height of 7.5ft Tops even in his booster boots. So i only wished Ridely had done the same camera trickery and effects that we saw used in Lord of the Rings and the Hobit to then show the Engineers as 9ft tall.

As far as the ideas... Well Ridley said a long time ago that the Space Jockey was a suit so it was not just a case of making this movie they re-designed it. Now thats not to say the idea was Humanoid under the suit.... Now Giger said the design was he was part of the chair. Now i think they changed the design to be Humanoid to fit in with the story which is that these Engineers created us and that the many ancient cultures who depicted gods etc was simply just how they interpreted the Engineers. The Ancient Astronaut theory, and thing such as the Anunaki Tale from Sumerian and Babylonian Cultures I actually liked this design that someone did... [img]http://carl-gagnon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SpaceJockeySketch_Wip02.jpg[/img] But i understand that maybe this sort of design would not fit as well into the story they are trying to tell in Prometheus and thats basically that the Engineers are the Anunaki, the Titans, and Angels etc.

i remember watching the trailers and seeing these two scenes [img]http://www.prometheus-movie.com/media/prometheusK_screencap30.jpg[/img] [img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwnsasSzBB1qmz9r9o1_400.png[/img] i instantly thought that's what the space jockey actually looks like, not the humanoid "engineer" look, they would have looked more interesting like that.

Anyone who doesn't like the Engineers and their look needs to go forget themselves... Anyway... Yeah. I've always loved the Predators. I'm always fascinated by their design. Their look. Their behaviour. And i NEVER, EVER thought ANYTHING would come close. And, i couldn't have been more wrong... The Engineers are on par with the Predators. Even beating them to an extent. And that says a lot. Especially considering they're pretty human-like. Just you wait, the Engineer will go down as a signature movie design, and a signature image of Sci-Fi. Just like the Predators and Xenomorph. Their complexion. Dark eyes. Suits. Great height. Muscularity. Voice. Everything. The Engineers are absolute badasses.

Yes loved the engineers parts pitty about most of the rest :S - but if they are really the old SJ its no were near as good in design - I hope they are different from the old SJ and the elders are the real old SJ woooo!

It wouldn't have been hard to make them huge @bigdave. The special effects team made Xerxes larger than life in 300 by having everyone look at a picture at the top of a ten foot pole an then adding him digitally to wherever the line of site was pointing.