Jaitea said:

Hi Monroville, the main thing that annoys me about Alien is the scene with the decapitated Ash. The jump cuts between Ian and the dummy head need fixed and when the skin is being burnt off by the flamethrower the final blast of flames blows off the last of the skin revealing the white plastic looking mannequin head, no eye sockets, skull, nothing.

I'll have to check it again, maybe the last blast of flame could be cut before the plastic head was revealed.

J

YES! That is definitely something I want to work on; be it editing and/or taking images of Ian Holm and figuring a way of mapping it onto the fake head (I definitely want to deal with the bit where Ripley is trying to get the head to stay down and it keeps wanting to tip over - I would consider just editing that bit out so the first you see is Ian's head through the table).

In fact, it's funny you bring up the "mannequin head" that appears after the 2nd flamethrower blast, because I was thinking about that yesterday - it needs either something akin to an endoskeleton skull or at least a more Incredible Melting Manish appearance

...or just cutting out the 2nd flamethrower burst.