For a cheap and fun bloody romp check out Alien Shooter. Blow aliens to bits with a great array of weapons. Turn on the RED blood for more gore. Alien Shooter
Just a days work sculpt from the master Jordu Schell. I absolutely love his alien designs and it was really fun to do one. Here's his alien sculpt http://schellstudio.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=173
http://scifiwire.com/2009/05/alien-reboot-a-prequel-is.php aliens 1-2 were awesomest, and AvP 2 had some seriously cool moments. sigoney weaver wont play obviously so i hope they will find someone else to fill in the 'human POV' character, which really led the aliens films thus far. cross your fingers!
Aliens was blamed for upping the alien-count just for the sake of numbers when one was enough for the first alien movie, it probably wouldn't feature thousands of aliens today as the colony only had around 150 humans in it, that's besides the point though :P The scene was great not because it didn't use effects everywhere…
As for the alien not moving fast enough (as has been mentioned) the alien in 'Alien' never ran, and was apparently 'at the end of its cycle' by the time Ripley runs into it - preparing to nest or hibernate. It was no less dangerous though. I think that's the feel their going for - which is spot on for the first movie.…
Just wanted to post a few quick heads that I did in Zbrush 3.1 for a workshop this weekend in Dallas. Still learning the program, but did each of these in about 1 1/2 hours. I started from a base human head and moved things around to create my alien head base. Then I started from the same alien head base and tried makinig…