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20th Century Science Fiction Art: Artists and Techniques

panelists:

Frank Wu www.frankwu.com

Brianna Wu www.briannaspacekat.com

Lex Berman www.yunchtime.net

ALIENS!

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What humans look like (for context)

Hubert Rogers Barbarella

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But looks can be deceiving!

Aelita

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Walter Popp

Orion Slave Girl

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Liara TSoni Mass Effect 2

Or maybe blue!

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Or antennae!

Virgil Finlay

My Favorite Martian

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Or funny ears!

ST III

Way to Eden

Dragon Age II

Ferengi

Freas

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Twilight Zone Angry Red Planet

Bok

Or athirdeye!

War of the Worlds

Witzend

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Aliens must haveFAT heads

Peter Caras 1968

Albert Kallis 1957

Robert Fuqua 1940

Norman Saunders 1962Ed Pagram 1953Cha Bril 1954

Or FAT brains

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Or human bodies withreally weird heads & faces

Basil Wolverton

Wayne Barlow

I Married a Monsterfrom Outer Space

Hideous Sun Demon

Happy Klingon

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Steele Savage

Or a weird mask!Babylon 5

Dr. Who

Underwater Menace

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Instead of weird heads on humans,Weird bodies with human heads!

Zanti Misfits

The Outer Limits

Only chordateshave noses!

Earle K. Bergey

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Extra limbs!

Frazetta

J. Allen St. John

I i l li

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Increasingly alien...But still humanoid...

Metalunan Mutant Woody WelchKelly Freas

Warhola

Pennington

Shigeru Mizuki

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First Men in the Moon

A Trip to the Moon

Bugs!

Marine Isopod

StarshipTroopers

Paul Stahr (1932)

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Pycnogonid (Sea Spider)

Arakune - BlazBlue

Prawns - District 9

Boris Dolgov

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Deadly MantisXindi Insectoid

Minuete Rev60

I OnlyHaveBug EyesFor You

Malcolm Smith

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Bat Rat Spider Monster Angry Red Planet

Arthropoda + Chordata = Weird Alien

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Bob Eggleton

Frank Wu

Mollusca + Chordata= Cthulhu

WormiusPennington

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Mollusca + Flora + Avians

= getting weird

(uncredited, 1950)

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Steele Savage

ST:Devil in the Dark

Hellboy II

ST: Mudds Passion

ST: Savage Curtain

Rock

Monsters!

Flash Gordon

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Jellyfish!

(Cnidaria)

Dagora Jerora The Guidolon

Universe

Wesso (1929)

M Mi d b li T t l

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More Mind-boggling Tentacles

Theyre

Tentacular!

ViskupicMorey Schoenherr

Matt Fox Barclay Shaw

Th T l Ali

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The Truly Alien

WyrsHaberfield

Jan Parker Josh Kirby MeignaudLehr (?)

Pan's Labyrinth

Passing strange aliens

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Passing strange aliens

Wally Wood Edd Cartier

GigerRobert Stephen Connett

Floating Orbs Blobs & Balls of Light

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Floating Orbs, Blobs, & Balls of Light

Howard V. Brown

Gaughan Turner

Alien babes

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Alien babes...

Macauley

EmshFinlay

Albert

Kallis

Just Imagine

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Robert Foster

Roland Topor

Earle Bergey Allen Anderson

Ship of MonstersGamera vs. Guiron

5th Element

Avatar

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Movie Poster

master of the 50s

Albert Kallis

Next time, same bat channel:

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,spaceships

Though we didnt

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Though we didntforget surrealism...

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