One of the big hits of 2009 was District 9, and despite having a rather modest budget, the filmmakers managed to achieve a great deal of visual style and some high quality effects. We’ve collected a bunch of concept art from the movie, done by the artists David Meng, Greg Broadmore, and Leri Greer, all working at Weta Workshop. Read on for the full gallery.

H. R. Giger (Hans Rudolf Giger — Wikipedia entry and his official site), widely recognized as one of the greatest surrealists of the 20th century, has worked on movies such as Dune, Species, and Alien, for which he is most famous for, creating the “Alien” creature itself, a feat which gathered him an Academy Award in 1979. Read on for a full gallery of some of his best work.