The Artists Behind Fantasy and Sci-Fi Movies

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This artist was brought on to create an alien for the movie Alien that was like nothing anyone had seen on film before.

This British artist got his start working for Penthouse before signing on to work on the unfinished Jodorowsky's Dune. His distinctive tropical fish inspired spacecraft adorned the covers of many 1970's sci-fi books.

While contraversial for his erotic style with overly muscular scantily clad subject matter, his art was the inspiration for the Conan movies.

This illustrator created the look for the original Star Wars movies, and was even honored with his own action figure.

Lesser known, this artist was the first artist George Lucas hired to work on Star Wars, but was let go because his work wasn't quite what George envisioned. He was honored in the TV series Andor with his original star destroyer (the one pictured in the thumbnail) finally making a live action appearance.

These two successful Tolkin artists were hired by Peter Jackson to help with the design of the films.

This futurist illustrator's walking trucks for a U.S. Steel ad inspired the AT-ATs in Empire Strikes Back.

This illustrator designed the ship interiors for Alien as well as many creatures in the Star Wars cantina (including Hammerhead.)

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This creature designer and stop motion animator created Jabba the Hutt, among other Star Wars charactors, and almost got to play the rancor in a rubber suit.

This artist inspired Avatar with his Yes and Asia album covers.

These brothers put out Tolkin calanders that many considered definitive images of those characters.

This artist started out as a mechanical artist for aviation, but he is best known for designing the Star Trek Enterprise. He is honored in the Next Generation by having a part of the ship named after him.

This illustrator was the head artist on the team that designed the spacecraft for Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He later worked on Star Wars, as well.

This make-up artist created the early hominids for Kubrick's 2001 before going on to create Chewbacca and Yoda.

This special effects artist invented the method of filming models that allowed them to apear to fly past the screen. He helped found ILM with George Lucas, and later went on to do the special effects for the original Battlestar Galactica.

This artist was the creator of the iconic 1970's Heavy Metal sci-fi comic, and his style was the insperation for The Fifth Element.