2. The BBC had to bail out my Father arrested as a potential communist spy for sketching a police box for the original Tardis Later the BBC almost arrested me for loosing control of a Dalek in the scene dock. Daleks have no brakes. A remarkable oversight for an alien wishing to take over the world

3. Art Director Budget Visuals Plans Logistics Props Buyer Greensman Animal wrangler Scenic artist Model maker SFX Construction Manager Carpenter Minimum 5 years experience on major films Painter Marbling, Wood graining, Aging Rigger Scaffolding Stage Hand Keeping the stage organised Plasterer Mouldings Textures Sculpter Director Creative Producer Fiscal and deadlines Director of Photography Location Manager

4. Shepperton Studios H Stage Render Farm The Old House Creche A Stage

5. Pinewood Studios

6. Pinewood Studios, D Stage Makeup Blocks Green rooms Production Offices Workshops Props

8. Rainmaker – projection geometry composite for Da Vinci Code C Stage Shepperton Saint Sulpice Paris Projection stills - Canon EOS 1DS MK2.

9. St James Theater Wellington

10. Budget Time Quality

11. Turkish Delight, Prelight, 'A' Stage Shepperton Showing the painted cyc, groundrows, gauze, middle and foreground elements. Each is lite separately. The arc lamps each use over 200 amps. 3 phase power is separated into the grid, ground rows and arc lights. 150 x 50 meters of painted cyc – 10 days design and build

12. Lighting for mid day and dawn Gauzes allow great flexibility of lighting By ten the following day all this was cleared out ready for the next one.

13. Two gauzes used in this effort

14. Brazil An example of utilising a mirror in a model set The figure is some 15cm across with the painted cyc 25 meters wide. The clouds are made from kapoc polyester filler

15. Brazil – ext

16. 8 by 20 meter backdrop of New York for a Dutch TVC Two scenic artists over 3 days Sets utilise backdrops, ground rows and foreground elements First the backdrops

17. TVC backdrop, Elstree One artist for three days Note painted tree and it's shadow on the wall

18. 'D'' Stage Pinewood ‘The Wall’ 3 meter high skyscraper ground rows being flown in Setting up the horizon line is important along with moving from a single VP to double VPs for a more natural look

19. Scenic art is often combined with 3D Note real book against his nose

20. ‘ H’ Stage Shepperton Studios Build and prelight for Wimpy tvc Profits from this job bought our first studio – way back in 1976

21. The Meaning of Life Hero building in full size, intermediate and miniature versions

22. The Meaning of Life “ Crimson Pearl Assurance” 'City of High Finance' 5 meter high perspex buildings

23. Time Bandits Fortress of Ultimate Darkness Miniature designed for a 9.8mm lens

24. Time Bandits Fortress of Ultimate Darkness The Gate House - Miniature and intermediate model

25. Top view of Intermediate model

26. Final composite with Miniature as backplate with the Invisible Barrier rotoscoped in with an optical step printer.

27. Napoleonic Traveling Theater for Time Bandits We made this fully practical so it could be filmed front and back

29. ‘ Alien’ followed ‘2001’ and the just released ‘Star Wars’

30. Essentially about this . . . .

31. . . . . .bumping off these actors

32. Ronald Shussett's original visual for Nostromo's 'Bridge'

33. Original look for Nostromo interior

34. Evolving to the claustrophobic

35. . . . and aged We used f.e.v's to provide the oily translucent look Note mirror and studio wall

36. 'C' Stage Shepperton ‘ Nostromo’ Interior

37. ‘ C’ and ‘D’ Stage, Nostromo Interiors

38. Dallas Dallas

39. 'Shussett‘ visual for LV246 ext , ‘H’ Stage

41. Gieger visual

42. Ext /model /Bray Studios

43. Gieger visual for LV246 ext

44. H stage LV246 Note matte flag

45. Nostromo ‘leg’ H Stage

46. H stage, build LV246

47. H stage. Note painted backdrop on cyc

50. Gieger at work with his favourite double action airbrush

51. Same subject redone to accommodate practical details

52. Glass painting in final shot

53. A stage int. based on previous visual

54. The completed ‘Jockey’ finished in pearlescents and f.e.v.s

55. John Hurt catwalking in his off the shoulder number

56. Gieger with one of his babies

59. Älien stills courtesy of 20 th Century Fox

60. The End