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Ronald Ray Cobb (September 21, 1937 – September 21, 2020) was an American–Australian artist. In addition to his work as an editorial cartoonist, he contributed concept art to major films including Dark Star (1974), Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Back to the Future (1985), The ...
- American, Australian
- roncobb.net
- September 21, 2020 (aged 83), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Night Skies / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- The Rocketeer
- Dark Star
- Raiders of The Lost Ark
- Conan The Barbarian
- The Last Starfighter
- Back to The Future
- Alien
- Star Wars
- Aliens
After Close Encounters of the Third Kind saved Columbia Pictures from bankruptcy, Steven Spielberg saw fit to bring Ron Cobb on board to design a sort of mirror image follow-up in the form of Night Skies. In contrast to the positivity of Close Encounters, this film was supposed to be a somewhat violent horror with bits of comedy thrown in. Cobb not...
The 90s adaptation of The Rocketeermight have been a box office bomb when it debuted in 1991, but it's taken on cult status in recent years. At the time of production, Cobb was already a household name in Hollywood, having worked on a bevy of massive hits, and a few B-list sleepers. His sketch of the original Rocketeer wasn't very far off from what...
John Carpenter's Dark Star was co-written by Dan O'Bannon, who'd later go on to co-write the enormously popular Alien.Unfortunately, this first project was met with empty theaters and negative reviews, although the film has gone on to achieve respect and cult status among sci-fi fans. Ron Cobb wasn't nearly as well known back then, and barely makin...
Having made a name for himself in movie circles for some truly astonishing technical art concepts used in films like Alien, Cobb participated in Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark.He didn't have a major hand in many of the film's designs, but he was a key player in one of the film's most memorable sequences. RELATED: 10 Funniest Goofs & Mis...
Ron Cobb was less known for his work in fantasy films, having been promoted to an artist extraordinaire within the sci-fi community. Yet, his conceptual wizardry and keen eye for detail landed him a spot in the design phase of Conan the Barbarian, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. He helped design a ton of content for the film, from weapons, to armor...
One of the best things about Ron Cobb was his ability not just to conceptualize incredible vehicles, but also make them believable. Many a director in Hollywood has marveled about the way Cobb breaks down the way his designs function, from front to back. This level of detail is shown in his work for The Last Starfighter. The design of the iconic Gu...
The DeLorean might be one of the most recognizable cars in the world, but it was just a foundation for the technical mess that represented Doc Brown's eccentric scientific mind. To help sell it, Ron Cobb was brought in to sketch out how such a car could be Frankensteined to look like a mad scientist's vision of a time machine. Cobb took the DeLorea...
Ridley Scott's original Alien created a franchise that now serves as a pillar of the sci-fi world. Scott took an imperfect script, revamped it, and married it to a team of brilliant designers led by Ron Cobb and eccentric horror artist H.R. Giger. During the course of production, Giger handled the alien creature design, biomechanical creations like...
There was no shortage of talent on the set of George Lucas's original Star Warsback in 1977, and Cobb was there to help out. Though longtime fans would have thought that he played a part in ship designs, he actually focused most of his attention on the alien creatures shown during the Mos Eisley cantina scene. RELATED: 10 Of The Most Tragic Charact...
There are a few things that make no sense about 1986's Aliens,but Ron Cobb's concept designs are definitely not one of them. With a few more years of experience under his belt, Cobb was ready to tackle some of the most challenging conceptual designs of the film, which was no small task given Cameron's own aptitude for creating excellent concept art...
Jun 27, 2021 · Ron Cobb is one of the most celebrated cartoonists of the underground press. His cartoons and drawings were syndicated in underground papers all over the country. They (usually brilliantly) express Cobb’s perspectives on war, race, poverty, police, ecology, and the characteristically countercultural fear of excessive technological advances.
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Sep 28, 2020 · Ron Cobb: 1937 – 2020 Steven Ringgenberg | September 28, 2020 Ron Cobb — editorial cartoonist, ecology-symbol creator, Disney animator and production artist for just about every major science-fiction film you’ve seen in the past 50 years — passed away on his 83 rd birthday, Monday, Sept.21.
Jan 31, 2021 · Ron Cobb also did some art for the planet LV-426, depicting the scene where The Nostromo lands on the planet. The art also gives the viewer a glimpse of a very different planet design, which oddly looks very similar to the prison planet in Alien 3. Visible in the art are the characters Dallas, Lambert, and Kane, all heading towards their doom.
2015. Conceptual Artist. Scott Foster’s Affable Entertainment. Working on various projects. GALLERY. Ron Cobb, Cartoonist, Film Designer, 300 cartoons, 40 films, Artwork and Design!
