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Title:Arcana Caelestia
Notice:Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

852.0. "Ron Cobb" by SAC::OKEEFE_N (One wheel's enough...) Thu Jan 11 1990 17:18

    This is a request on a subject partially related to SF, but I'm hoping
    that there are going to be plenty of people out there with some
    information.
    
    Does anyone have any information about Ron Cobb. For those of you
    thinking who???, Ron Cobb is an artist who has worked as production
    designer for numerous SF films - notably Alien, Aliens, The Last
    Starfighter, 2010; not to mention Conan the Barbarian. Ron is brilliant
    at coming up with believable hardware, such as the "Smart guns" in
    Aliens. 
    
    Some years ago I saw a book of his artwork here in the UK, which was
    full of great (unused) designs for Alien. Of course I didn't buy it, 
    and have rued the day ever since. Does anyone (especially in the US) know
    anything about this guy, and if any books of his are still in print.
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852.1Syd Mead's work is just as good too!BIGUN::HOLLOWAYSavage Tree Frogs on SpeedWed Jul 01 1992 02:0618
    
    I have two books (one of cartoons) and a film book with a lot of
    preproduction art.  They are:
    
    Ron Cobb  Colorvision	- Wild and Woolley	(sp?)
    				  Seagate Distributors Inc.
    				  isbn 0 909331 43 X
    
    Cobb Again			- Wild and Woolley
    				  isbn 0 909331 24 3
    
    The Book of Alien		- Star Books
    Paul Scanlon &		  isbn 0 352 304227
    Michael Gross
    
    I don't think they're still in print - but give it a go...
    
    David