Starchild Artists' Impressions Large Skull Pics

Artists' Impressions DIY

For anyone who might want to try reconstructing the Starchild's face, we STRONGLY recommend that you view the slideshow (below) to get a clear idea of the skull's morphology. Please submit your efforts to Lloyd at lloyd@lloydpye.com and we will post them here on the site.

"Starchild: External Anomalies" examination of the Starchild Skull's external characteristics in comparison to a normal skull.
PC- Macromedia Flash Format 1MB click to download Flash viewer
Macs- Microsoft PowerPoint Format 5.5MB click to download PowerPoint

Good luck, have fun with it, and keep these points in mind:

The eyes are centered low in very shallow eye sockets (roughly at the midpoint of the nose), and would almost certainly protrude from the face if they are remotely like human eyeballs. Normal eye sockets are three times deeper, with the optic foramen (the diagonal "slit" which sits directly behind the eyeball) in the middle of the socket, as opposed to the Starchild, where it sits at the bottom of each orbit.

The Starchild's cheekbones slant downward and do not appear to arch away from the face, creating a jaw much narrower than a normal human jaw, with a narrow lower jaw, producing a narrower chin with an overall "pinched in" look. Its eyelids will almost certainly be longer and narrower than normal.

The ears are very low on the side of the head, aligned under the level of the cheek bones, which we know slanted downward close to the face because of the stumps of each are clearly visible as small hook-like attachments angled upward rather than horizontal, as is normal.

We are able to determine from the attachments of the Starchild's neck muscles that it would have a neck about half as thick as normal, and the head would have rested directly on top of the neck, like a weird shaped golf-ball on a tee.