it says ALIEN but it has stuff from "aliens" also.

Im seeing it for 35 bucks on ebay, Ill probably get it. Im curious about the licensing of the blueprints. there were some pretty well known people on these designs. I wonder if these blueprints are the ones that they made or if they hired artists to make blueprins to put in this book, based on the drawings to avoid having to pay the original artists.

I don't get this statement - when you work on a movie it's all work for hire. The original draftsmen were paid for the services, and the "rights" to that material becomes property of the studio.

No, I was the only one hired to do the blueprint art from the book. It's pretty hard to do a blueprint without referring to the concept art or sets created or made for the movie. The Nostromo for instance did not have a blueprint they followed to build the ship exterior models. They worked from concept art by Ron Cobb, so I had to draw the exterior blueprint from scratch.

DO WANT.

There's also talk about "The Making of Aliens," from J. W. Rinzler, over on AvPGalaxy. Not a huge surprise since he just did "The Making of Alien," but it certainly feels like Aliens has been overshadowed by Alien's 40th anniversary.

Just of curiousity, was the art made by mesuring models or just original sources photos?
I expect that no interviews with perspectives of Mead, Cobb, Cameron etc. was made, but tech was invented by some fan level narrator as in some other of these books. Basically its just another comic franchise art book and no movie book, right?

/Jonsey