The Shop Years · 1989

The Abyss

For Cameron’s The Abyss, George worked as a credited sculptor at Steve Johnson’s XFX, Inc. — the shop that designed and built the NTIs (Non-Terrestrial Intelligences). His sculpts gave the aliens their fluid, organic lines, which XFX cast in translucent urethanes and lit from inside with fiber-optic rigs. The pale glow used for this site’s focus rings and this page’s accent is theirs.

(Correction, 2026-07-07: this page previously attributed the NTIs to Stan Winston Studio. Production records credit Steve Johnson’s XFX — Winston’s shop did not build the NTIs.)

abyss-nti-01NTI — translucent fabrication with internal lightingawaiting image — assign this id in the triage tool