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Alien 3 (1992) colour palette

Directed by David Fincher · Shot by Alex Thomson

Alien 3 (1992), shot by Alex Thomson, runs natural and strongly warm, measured across 66 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is deep orange (#14110e), covering 10.9% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.708 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.309 — more saturated than 74% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.336 — brighter than 7% of ranked films

Measured across 66 frames. See the frames on the Alien 3 page →

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