Ron Cobb (1937 – September 21, 2020) was an American cartoonist, artist, writer, film designer and film director who served as a concept artist on the 1979 film Alien and the 1986 film Aliens. Other notable films Cobb has worked on include Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), Back to the Future (1985), The Abyss (1989), Total Recall (1990) and True Lies (1994).[1]
For Alien, Cobb contributed to the exterior (miniature) look of the Nostromo and designed many of the spacecraft's interior sets.[2] He also put forward designs for LV-426, the derelict and the titular Alien, before H. R. Giger was hired to design these extraterrestrial aspects of the film. On Aliens, Cobb designed the interior of the Sulaco.
Documentary Appearances
- The Alien Legacy
- Alien Evolution
- The Alien Saga
- The Beast Within: Making Alien
- Superior Firepower: Making Aliens
Gallery
Ron Cobb and H. R. Giger.
Concept art
Cobb's Alien.
Ditto.
LV-426 concept art.
The Nostromo on LV-426.
Concept for the derelict on LV-426.
Ditto.
Cobb's Space Jockey.
Concept for the pyramid on LV-426.
The Narcissus.
The unused "observation bubble" aboard the Nostromo.
The Nostromo's cockpit.
The Nostromo's interior.
Cobb's "Semiotic Standard" symbols, as seen aboard the Nostromo.
Additional symbols.
Digital recreation of Cobb's Semiotic Standard symbols.
External Links
- Ron Cobb Q&A
- Alien: The history of the Nostromo, by Ron Cobb | Den of Geek
- Vintage Interview with Ron Cobb | Strange Shapes