The world itself combines modern elements, such as email and credit cards, with those of science fiction and fantasy, such as spaceships and anthropomorphic animals coexisting with humans.
Things such as spaceships and robotics make good models.
O'Bannon brought in artists Ron Cobb and Chris Foss (with whom he had worked on Dark Star and Dune, respectively) to work on designs for the human aspects of the film such as the spaceship and space suits.
Female nerds who like sci-fi tend to gravitate more towards development of characters and relationships than towards plot elements such as cool spaceships and hardware, space battles, mecha, and other plot elements that male nerds traditionally appreciate.
The Stewart parallel mechanism is used in various applications due to its high load-carrying capacity, accuracy and stiffness, such as flight simulation, spaceship aligning, radar and satellite antenna orientation, rehabilitation applications, parallel machine tools.
Lego produces a stream of kits with ready-made designs, such as forts and spaceships, to provide children with templates.
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His creations were bizarre, organic machines and his designs for Alien, such as the huge derelict spaceship the astronauts investigate, seem as much grown as constructed.
Virtual cameras have been developed which allow a director to film motion capture and view the digital characters movements in real time in a pre-constructed digital environment, such as a house or spaceship.
Initially the local community was skeptical of the new project in the middle of their neighborhood, objecting by posting notes such as: "Please take this spaceship to another site".
