🖼️ Art by @dane_hallett_art & H.R.Giger @alienanthology @marvel Recently I asked Brad from @aliensgatewaystation if there other instances of plagiarism in Alien in the past? Or "homages" I said obviously in Covenant Dane and Matt were asked to copy Giger's work. Brad said "I wouldn’t say they copied Giger’s work. More like they replicated Giger’s style to create new, original work. Other artists who’ve worked in the Alien franchise, working on comics or games etc., are essentially replicating Giger’s asthetics to some extent whenever they draw an Alien (big chap style) or Juggernaut/Derelict or whatever, but they’re still making something original and even adding a bit of their own aesthetics/style to it. Dane and Matt just took it a step further, staying a little truer to Giger’s style. Giger himself has even done this. For example, Giger’s isle of the dead; That was a piece heavily inspired by another artist’s work by the same name. You see a lot of similarities between Giger’s and the original, but Giger still made something new and unique without copying the previous version line for line. That’s being inspired rather than a blatant rip-off or plagiarism. And many artists have recreated the Isle of the Dead piece in their own way, not just Giger. What Land did, was not the same as pulling inspiration, or recreating an aesthetic by another artist. It was literally Tristan’s work manipulated and combined with the work of others to make it appear as something new/original. That’s not ok. It’s not his work; it’s dishonest and unethical to do what he did. If Land had used Tristan's work as a reference, that would have been ok imo. But he didn’t do that; otherwise the line work wouldn’t matchup perfectly the way they do in photoshop." @wallmeatjones posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/CEuEx3QAs7i/
