Giger is gone... What now?

People can imitate Giger to various degrees but since his unique art obviously came from his own mind it won't be exactly the same, maybe close though it depends on the extent of the artwork based on Giger's works.

Giger took opium because he was afraid of his visions.

Paul Booth.

Yeah i love Paul Booth's work.He'd be a great successor.

The over all artistry of Scorn would be a great fit in the Alien universe.

giger lives thru his work, always has. dead or alive, the dna is there...theres no reproducing something that lives forever.

Giger was a one of a kind. His influence is vast. I think Paul Booth and the team from Scorn do a good job carrying on the tradition. Damn- I have a tat from an artist influenced by Booth/Giger. When I saw his drawings, I knew he was the guy. I noticed he had a tat from Paul Booth that I saw in a tat mag before. Like Giger, all work from Booth and the guy who did mine are one of a kind.

I've read Giger was dissapointed with the movie 'Species' because it tried to directly imitate things from 'Alien' and 'Aliens' instead of trying to be as impactful and innovatibe as them (specifically, things like the "bellybuster" and the use of flamethrowers when he envisioned the monstress as being inmune to fire).

Similarly, a succesor of H. R. Giger doesn't have to be similar, it doesn't even have to be biomechanical, it just has to make a big impact today the same way he did back in the day, and scare us on a, instinctive, visceral level we didn't even imagine before.

(Although there is something to be said about how a big chunk of Giger's work remains obscure in favor of the Alien and stuff similar to it, many of wich don't fit the popular idea of "biomechanical", meaning artists can still be inspired directly by Giger without it being too obvious).