Alien: Covenant Engineer screenshots *Updated

"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair."

I'm glad to see some female Engineers, I feel my hypothesis on the Engineer's creating Deacons through the black goo/pathogen/xenovirus is becoming more plausible since they have female eggs in which to make facehuggers/trilobites. Also, like David explained in an earlier post of mine http://www.alien-covenant.com/topic/45855 , the radius in which the goo is dropped I feel is inconsequential as I feel, like BigDave said, starts to spread and infect wider areas through initial contact, botanical infection, and perhaps Deacons.

I also concur with Dark Nebula with his assessment of the Engineers and their classes. The ones on Planet 4 are more civilian while the ones we saw on LV-223 are warriors.

Only 5 years between these two prequels and this big inconsistency. Hmmm interesting.

I mean if they spend like 10k for black contact lenses the Engineers would look more believable. I dont know why they saved costs on the wrong end?

They could have done it easily digitally. They just wanted them to look different. Why? Hard to say for certain.

@auximenes

Thanks for the reply.

If they are supposed to be the same species they cant have different eyes. Look at the humans for example. Iris and white eyeballs. They should have the same eye -characteristics.

The more i think about it i dont believe RS, that he declared these planet 4 beings as "Engineers".

Maybe they are one of the most promising experiments they have done, to be integrated in their eternal society.

That inconsistency really asks for the right answers.

Like you said, they could done it with post edit CGI effects but from what i saw the LV-223 Engineer-character had simple black contact lenses.

I see lots of comments about the eyes being different than the ones in Prometheus, and some saying they were black. Other than the eyes of the shorter (female?) Engineer, which look like they have a brighter sclera than the others, the rest of the Engineers eyes are so dark they can barely be seen.

The scene in Covenant is in sunlight. The eyes shown in Prometheus were mostly in dim or dark lighting, but they also clearly have a brighter sclera, not all black.

The Engineers in Prometheus are different than Covenant.  I do not think it was an oversight.  This is just another seeded planet.  The beginning of Prometheus is the seeding of the planet seen in Covenant.  

@Kethol

Thanks for the images.

This just confirmes that the beings on planet 4 have much different eyes than the sacrificial Engineer or the LV223 ones.

Maybe they have a small white area around the iris when illuminated right but they are still mostly dark compared to humans.

The short flashback scene in A:C already showed the inconsistency even without looking into it further. The eyeballs had a clear difference to the Prometheus Engineers.

I think indeed the shots Kethol Shared are interesting, and it shows these Contact Lenses were not 100% really Black, maybe they was Specially made some Darker Color and the cost of doing so is more expensive than using Black Out Sclera Contact Lenses that can be Purchased for as little as $30 each.

Maybe this is why they did not choose to give those Actors such Cheap Contacts?  Maybe there is a purpose more than Budget or Oversight?

The Concept work does show us a Darker Sclera, here is some of the concepts with some of the Engineers including the Head Prop where they are clearly Dark, and so it could be the lighting that makes them appear not so Totally Black.

The intention was however there Eyes, are different to Humans and indeed those beings on Paradise/Planet 4

May have to view the images for details... and below is the Elder Engineer both with Contacts and without.

so the intention was to have different eyes, and we have to go back to Jon Spaights again for the Origins.. his Draft the Engineers Eyes were different more Advanced and could see in more Spectrum's than the Human Eye

Now its  a case of is the Alien Covenant Engineers, different for a reason? Or was the intended to look the same as Prometheus but they just had to cut back on Budget and Time as far as Make up for such a short Scene?

We can assume they are different, and can think of reasons why, they could be Older Superior beings to those on Paradise, and so Descendants, or they could be Genetically Modified and Advanced/Evolved versions of those beings on Paradise.

Its quite open for debate...

RS referred to the Engineers as NOT A RACE... but a Civilization and even pondered that just how there are many different races/versions of Mankind and there could be many more, then there could be many kinds of Engineers.

So Genetically these beings are related to the Engineer in Prometheus but a bit different, but so are Humans they are also generically related to Engineers and these beings on Paradise.

We need to remember what Prometheus showed us, and RS comments on Prometheus.. these beings (Ones who dropped off the Sacrificial Engineer) use these Engineers to Seed Worlds and come back over and over Genetically Evolving us and thus creating Humans... but RS had said they had been doing this on many other worlds too.

We are thus a variation of the Engineers and the Humanoids they attempt to create via their Seeding Methods.

Added more screenshots, the black goo is literally bursting from their chests, mouths, heads, eyes, fingers etc. 

Plus I made this image by merging 2 screenshots.

 How did I miss to reply to this thread? It as toilet humor in it! :D

Engineer hierarchy chart, something I created out of boredom, based on the xenomorph evolution chart. Tried to decorate it and most of the stuff I made up.

FULL 8886×4820 RESOLUTION HERE