Alien (1978)
Ultimately never seen on screen, Andrew's translucent Alien monster used ground breaking technology.
Alien (1978)
Andrew's translucent monster for AlienAndrew was asked to make an alien monster from the concept painting of H R Gieger. The idea was that the monster's skin and flesh should be translucent, so that all organs withing the body were visible.
Andrew built an electric rotisserie oven to cook and form PVC polyols into flesh like structures. Although the translucency was achieved, the 'tear' strength of the material was a challenge.
Andrew overcame the technical problems eventually, but time was running on and Ridley Scott, the film's director, had the masterful idea of not showing the actual Alien, which only enhanced the suspense of the film.
The film was made at Shepperton, Elstree and Bray studios. Andrew also supplied vacuum formed space panels to all three studios.
