alien figures

"Open the goddamn hatch we have to get him inside..." ALIEN

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I love toys and action figures. I love Ridley Scott’s 1979 science-fiction masterpiece “ALIEN”. I especially love toymaker NECA and their toys based off of that film.

I took a week and sat down with some of these figures and created some small “moving stills” vignettes so that I could play with composition and moving the camera and smoke and lasers and all kinds of stuff.

Over the next three days I’ll be posting the three videos I created from that week of playing and experimenting. Some of these use audio and music from the 1979 film.

This is the 3rd of 3 posts.

Have questions about these motion stills videos? Want to talk shop? Want to talk ALIEN? Leave a comment down below!

"It seems to have life ... organic life" • ALIEN

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I love toys and action figures. I love Ridley Scott’s 1979 science-fiction masterpiece “ALIEN”. I especially love toymaker NECA and their toys based off of that film.

I took a week and sat down with some of these figures and created some small “moving stills” vignettes so that I could play with composition and moving the camera and smoke and lasers and all kinds of stuff.

Over the next three days I’ll be posting the three videos I created from that week of playing and experimenting. Some of these use audio and music from the 1979 film.

This is the 2nd of 3 posts.

Homage to ALIEN (1979)

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I love toys and action figures. I love Ridley Scott’s 1979 science-fiction masterpiece “ALIEN”. I especially love toymaker NECA and their toys based off of that film.

I took a week and sat down with some of these figures and created some small “moving stills” vignettes so that I could play with composition and moving the camera and smoke and lasers and all kinds of stuff.

Over the next three days I’ll be posting the three videos I created from that week of playing and experimenting. Some of these use audio and music from the 1979 film.

If you have any questions or comments or just want to talk about how awesome ALIEN is, leave a comment and let’s talk shop!

"The pit is completely enclosed. And it's full of leathery objects, like eggs or something."

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I love the 1979 movie Alien. It's one of my favorites.

Toy maker Super7 just came out with these retro-style "ReAction" figures from Alien. I had to get the figure for Kane and take a photo of him.

This image was made using little colored finger lights I got at the dollar store, and cut up clear plastic water bottles for the "walls".

I wanted something dark, with just a kiss of light on his helmet so you can see his face.  The finger lights bounce off the water bottles and give the little color highlights.