The Incredible World of the Birrin | Part I

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Imagine carbon-based alien life which is truly ‘alien.’ This is a breakdown of Alex Ries’s incredible worldbuilding art project: ‘The World of the Birrin.’ Part II: • The Incredible World o...
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Somewhere in the vast unknown of space, alien life may be waiting for us. But these beings, even if they’re carbon-based like we are, probably won’t be the familiar humanoids present in many stories - but organisms which are truly, well, alien. Alex Ries is an artist who strives to imagine speculative aliens with genuinely unique appearances. He also worked behind the scenes on the various aliens of the video game Subnautica.
And Alex Ries’s magnum opus of speculative biology is his ‘Birrin Project’ - a saga exploring the world of an intelligent species called the Birrin. So much of this world has been fleshed out - from the geography, to the history, to biology, to the culture - and it’s all so inventive and so detailed, that it’s going to be a challenge to explore everything in just one video. So, this is part one of two on the Birrin civilization.
So, let’s begin our deep dive into this incredible alien world…
0:00 World of the Birrin
1:10 Planet Chriirah
2:43 Birrin Biology
5:07 Other Species
7:20 Birrin History: Pre-Fall
9:39 Outro
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@CuriousArchive 2 года назад

Part II, for anyone who missed it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PfZ6RvgmS6s.html

@jalapenoandbanana 2 года назад

fard

@bruhmania7359 2 года назад

Our sun already emits mostly green light, plants reflect it because it’s too strong

@giorgosdetorakis5105 2 года назад

Is this a book like "All Tommorows"?

@zackbarkley7593 2 года назад

@@bruhmania7359 not sure. Plants use weak red and strong blue...and there is variability as well. This might be more an accident of chemistry or an essential element... as capturing energy is just one aspect of energy transfer in the electron transfer chain. Too efficiently capturing everything might be counter productive or too complex and unecessary for then other processes to be simple and effective enough to function.

@megadino6731 Год назад

When is the book gonna released?

@alexries3650 2 года назад

Alex here: thank you so much for making this! I will be pitching the first book in the series at the start of 2022 so fingers crossed!

@PondScummer 2 года назад

Yo it's the legend himself

@ayaanosaurasrex6582 2 года назад

Alex ur a noob

@animatorshub7448 2 года назад

I can't wait, do you have any idea what you will be naming it?

@alexries3650 2 года назад

@@animatorshub7448 Two Sky River is the working title

@animatorshub7448 2 года назад

@@alexries3650 Thank you, I will make sure to look out for it

@ComradeCorvus 2 года назад

Fun Fact: Alex is also behind "metahuman", which you may know as the "Alien God looks down at lower beings" meme image. Its shown near the end of this video!

@miquelescribanoivars5049 2 года назад

9:43 for reference.

@mitchh3092 2 года назад

Downside of being an intensely talented artist; people will straight up steal your shit to make memes (see also the ol' "LOL WUT" pear aka The Biting Pear of Salamanca)

@eliasmagus5086 2 года назад

@@mitchh3092 i know right i was suprosed when i found out he drew that

@liamtranka9777 2 года назад

Part of the birrin universe if you see part two

@mitchh3092 2 года назад

@@eliasmagus5086 hah!

@PvtMartin78 2 года назад

The lack of aliens crabs makes this totally unbelievable. We all know that everything evolves into crabs!

@BoogieWoogi 2 года назад

#WHEREARETHECRABS

@LilXancheX 2 года назад

@@BoogieWoogi money money mon- *aah AHHH AHHHHH!*

@SnubbyDaArtist 2 года назад

@@LilXancheX *AGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAAGGGGG AGGG AGGGGGG*

@ckl9390 2 года назад

Give it time.

@oppositeswitzerland1058 2 года назад

Mr crab took them

@calebthangg 2 года назад

Meanwhile in an Alternative universe: The incredible world of humans.

@adamwelch4336 2 года назад

It amazing what the lifeforms of the distant earth planet look like!

@NPSao 2 года назад

As the equatorial regions became too hot to live and humans fled to the north and south~

@sporelover9945 2 года назад

@@NPSao Nah we go to another planet due to the earth is now a hothouse and the entire oceans are toxic due to pollution

@voodoovince8001 2 года назад

The humans fled their homeworld to the fourth planet in their solar system

@michaelsilver2396 2 года назад

More like the shitty world of humans.

@itsalily_lei_lei 2 года назад

Something I love about this world is consistency. A lot of alien worlds just throw limbs together and make everything look completely unrelated to each other.

@funnyswangoosething5088 2 года назад

This feels like a jab at Subnautica. Edit: man I should have watched a few more seconds BECAUSE HE LITERALLY WORKED ON THE GAME.

@itsalily_lei_lei 2 года назад

@@funnyswangoosething5088 Yes, it is sort of a jab at Subnautica. I love Subnautica but it doesn’t have much consistency.

@funnygrunt_o7 2 года назад

haha i dont know if that sort of consistency is what subnautica is going for

@cadman2300 2 года назад

Yeah, that was an issue I had with Wayne Barlow's Expedition. The creatures looked believable but hardly any of them looked remotely related biologically.

@moisttowlette1247 2 года назад

You're exactly right.

@Elijah_Yinkledoink 2 года назад

I definitely want the book when it comes out.

@ComradeCorvus 2 года назад

Agreed.

@redeye4516 2 года назад

Hell, I want a movie with Ries as head writer and director. It would be something actually interesting for once.

@mosterchife6045 2 года назад

Y e s

@speed-xspeed-x700 2 года назад

Mi 5

@zasproductions9258 2 года назад

@@ccriztoff Well, I have the best movie name idea, like ‘The Other World’ or ‘A World Beyond’

@nakenmil 2 года назад

Aw man, I've been following the artist on DevianArt for years, so cool to see someone cover this!

@Blueoriontiger 2 года назад

Same, discovered him in school in 2012, been following him for about a decade. He has a lot of cool stuff and throws an XD at me now and then.

@dunkelklinge 2 года назад

Also same, I was glad to see some of his work brought to live in the game Subnautica Below Zero.

@SirBlackReeds 2 года назад

Oof, now there's a name that hasn't aged well.

@someaveragewatcher492 2 года назад

Same

@kayskreed 2 года назад

Yup, him and C.M. Koseman (Nemo Ramjet). This is Abiogenesis. : )

@pacoramon9468 2 года назад

I hate when aliens worlds are just "big earth animals" or a planet of only "super predators" I'm looking at you JJ Abrams.

@lazyyoutubename3468 2 года назад

Oddly the Xenomorphs are some of the more alien aliens in media. Too bad they were retconned to be not actual aliens, but instead genetically engineered humans.

@ameliaslater9383 2 года назад

@@lazyyoutubename3468 Xenomorphs aren’t genetically engineered humans, there’s a theory that they were created by the Engineers via the black goo as a bio weapon but even the aliens we’ve seen that spawned from the goo don’t directly match the Xenomorph displayed in movies 1 and 2. So it could very well be an apex alien species that the Engineers tried to copy. We don’t really know

@lazyyoutubename3468 2 года назад

@@ameliaslater9383 But in Prometheus David created the xenomorphs by mixing Human, alien wasp DNA, and the black goo together.

@davidec.4021 2 года назад

@@lazyyoutubename3468 yeah and so? Xenomorphs are bio weapons able to absorb and adapt from and to the host they come in contact with. Humans had no business in creating them.

@river.m2010 2 года назад

@KhAnubis 2 года назад

This is so fascinating! Honestly I really love seeing all the cities, structures, vehicles, clothing, etc. from a non-humanoid species. Something I feel is really lacking in science fiction

@user-mc6tq7xb2q 2 года назад

🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑

@sarahnade8663 2 года назад

It's really cool but honestly I think speculative biologists have gone a bit too far the other way from where they were in the past and imagining almost no species as being humanoid is a mistake I think. There have existed millions of different species, many of which were highly intelligent but so far we are the only ones we know of to have developed advanced cultures and civilisation, and I believe that's due to our body plan. We have no natural means with which to defend ourselves or any real means of bringing down prey and that's our real secret, this kind of body plan only works if the creature has a high intelligence to create the tools and advanced social structures that this kind of build benefits from so highly. So because of that, I would expect humanoid body plans to actually be quite common when it comes to creating civilised races because of those evolutionary pressures I talked about. It wouldn't be exclusively humanoids but I still think we'd make up at least 40% of the body plans for intelligent races.

@justusb.plorer8773 2 года назад

@@sarahnade8663 The human body's lack of natural weapons is more likely a result of our tool use and sociality, rather than its cause.

@ckl9390 2 года назад

@@sarahnade8663 Similar to the mindset of how civilisation and technology are adaptations humans had to make to compensate for our physiological shortcomings.

@eldritchbeauty 2 года назад

@@sarahnade8663 Except that's a huge assumption without much thought to evolutionary history. Looking at our own planet, over the course of hundreds of millions of years of complex life, humans as a species have only existed for about four million years, and almost all, sans modern humans, have gone extinct. Meaning that there is a good chance that our physiology and adaptations are problematic in terms of evolutionary longevity. I know that a lot of people like to think of humans as being exceptional, but strangely, besides humans, there has never been another species with our physiology(fully erect and bipedal, large-headed, tailless, etc). That's very telling, I think -- that evolutionary pressures have almost never selected a human-like physiology might mean humans were something of a fluke, and perhaps even a minor miracle. Which makes sense, as humans, though we are relatively large organisms, are rather weak compared to other large animals. And intelligence, though it can be a very dominating and powerful adaptation, is probably not very useful in the short-term -- meaning, a species that adapted high intelligence but had a weak physiology would be outcompeted by other species before their high intelligence would offer any significant advantage. And we cannot speak with any certainty about life forms on other planets, because life may arise in environments that lack an atmosphere, or have far more or very little gravity, or have extreme heat or cold, etc. Vertebrates only evolved on Earth the way they did because of the exact amount of gravity the planet exerts, and on other planets without that gravity they would never evolve at all, much less a human-like organism. So I'm not sure how you got the number that 40 percent of intelligent alien life should have humanoid body plans. The evolutionary history of our planet seems to prove otherwise (that human-like organisms would be quite rare), and we have absolutely no data about any life forms on other planets to put a number to anything.

@morganf7310 2 года назад

So about the plants being red, that actually means that the sun gives off more red light than our sun. As while it is a small amount, over all, our sun actually gives off mostly green light in the visible spectrum. This might seem counter intuitive as why would you want to reflect the light the sun gives off the most? however as green light is reflected there is actually a small amount of light that penetrates deeper into the leaf and feeds more chloroplasts than the light that is just absorbed. Just a small nitpick but an interesting one non the less.

@jjt1881 2 года назад

Completly accurate. Great comment.

@NathanTarantlawriter 2 года назад

I was thinking along those lines and confusing myself. You answered the question well.

@ImplyDoods 2 года назад

plants wherent always green on earth though and thats not the only theory / idea to why there green know

@Sponge_me_boy 2 года назад

The plants might just be red if most if them have evolved to produce red ketocarotenoids, betalains, and/or red flavonoids; it could also be that a lot of the plants' common ancestors have had red pigments and the pigmentation genes remained in the current generations, which may have also been influenced by agriculture. The star is most likely a young G-type main sequence star, like our sun, because of it's sufficient longevity and habitable zone distance, especially along with the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field protecting the organisms from ionizing radiation and solar weather.

@boningguan156 2 года назад

What about red algae on earth?

@romulusnuma116 2 года назад

I really love all the art of Birrin civilisation it's a really well realised hexapod society

@basabromander2778 2 года назад

I'd like to imagine that somewhere across the multiverse, there's a Birrin out there watching a video about those weird "humans" one of their artists came up with.

@Alteori 2 года назад

OMG YES!!!!! You don't even know what valuable finds videos like this are to me!

@ihateyou3976 2 года назад

Don't think your comment will take off just because you're verified.

@JcoleMc 2 года назад

Alteori , plox do a video on this , Alex rise is incredibly underrated

@ivanelias3916 2 года назад

hello there alteori 😄

@youcantwindarth1 2 года назад

hold up

@ylussjoel 2 года назад

@@ihateyou3976 bruh

@JoshieboyStudios 2 года назад

Your channel is really scratching an itch inside me that I didn’t even know existed.

@pacotaco1246 2 года назад

Look up SpecEvo channels on youtube. Thats what our subculture is called

@tristanjohnson5992 2 года назад

Same

@Tetopettenson1 2 года назад

You ever get the feeling where you are itching so you scratch it but it feels like its inside your skin

@parkerhayes9739 5 часов назад

Same

@kroneexe 2 года назад

9:40 I've seen this picture a billion times. Finally I know where it's from.

@Axgoodofdunemaul 2 года назад

I've been reading science fiction since 1953. Del Rey Books published my one novel in 1986. I have a strong preference for hard sci fi. I want to say this is absolutely the best work of its kind I have EVER seen. I'm going to find out all I can about Alex Reis, and I will support his work to my best ability. Congratulations to Mr. Reis and to everybody who made this video.

@ilkku239 2 года назад

This video's description has links to Alex's sites.

@geekdivaherself 2 года назад

Congrats on the Del Rey publishing! I know you say it's one novel but still, that's more than I've managed!

@cold_raviol3616 2 года назад

You're old

@geekdivaherself 2 года назад

@@cold_raviol3616 You can count

@aussieseal9979 Год назад

Which book?

@joaomendes1330 2 года назад

Been following the Birrin "universe" ever since its inception, and I'm absolutely fascinated by the art, attention to detail and scientific accuracy. Good to see this being spotlighted!

@DyslexicMitochondria 2 года назад

Lovely video

@tomhappening 2 года назад

@@DyslexicMitochondria HI man nice seeing you here. Love ur channeII btw

@makotopark7741 2 года назад

9:45 ohhh so this meme is about the Birrins....

@TheRaptor0101 2 года назад

Yooooo. I remember seein' this man's work in dA a while ago. Forgot their name and lost track of their work. I am so happy to see their stuff again in such neat scale

@SirBlackReeds 2 года назад

Oy, now there's a name that hasn't aged well.

@Arkzard 2 года назад

This is the dawn of a new sci-fi interpretation of aliens, more "sci" and less "fi", finally! I was tired of aliens wich are just humans with face paint or masks, excellent job!!

@ilkku239 2 года назад

A new, unique gerne.

@lorelord2418 2 года назад

If you're okay with dealing with a lot of sexism and some racism, you can actually look at a lot of Larry Niven's work in his Known Space universe. Lots of alien looking aliens, like Pierson's Puppeteers, a species with 3 legs, 2 heads, and its brain in its torso. Also some less original races, like the Kzinti, giant rat/cat people. Biggest problem is that most of his stories are kind of average quality, with a lot of 70s era sexism. But they're almost all set in amazing worlds and cultures that make biological and engineering sense.

@CAJfur 2 года назад

I now want a show or movie based exactly on this outstanding work.

@blazusyt3056 2 года назад

This is what I've always wanted/imagined! Why are aliens always anthropomorphic like us? It never makes sense, what are the chances they would evolve similar features to us. But this is a really amazing concept

@axolotl1777 2 года назад

Even worse it's when the supposed aliens look exactly like humans and can even reproduce with them.

@blazusyt3056 2 года назад

@@axolotl1777 gotta get those alien cheeks man

@JcoleMc 2 года назад

You should check out Birrin aviation and space tech next Id think you'd like it

@markdurand9076 3 месяца назад

Well one theory in scifi is that all aliens have a similar origin. Like in Star Trek. In the Next generation they even have an episode explaining it. But there are plenty of scifi books that have unique aliens. You should check out Barlowes guide to Extraterrestrials. It features many non anthropomorphic aliens from literature.

@abigailthompson838 2 года назад

Subnautica actually got me into speculative biology, so I can credit this guy for my interest in it.

@truessencemua1718 2 года назад

The channel is doing really good after the all today’s video

@alexism9656 2 года назад

I know right! All of his videos has thousands and sometimes millions of views now. I started following him just a couple of weeks ago when most of his videos had only a couple of views. He blew up fast!

@kajolika417 2 года назад

Yep, I started watching him when he's still have 200+ subs, I'm happy to see his channel grow.

@midloran 2 года назад

7:41 this looks wholesome for some reason

@LS1056 2 года назад

I remember this guy!!! I followed him on Deviantart years ago, and I remember his drawings of the Birrins. The drawings of the little ones were so adorable!!! It was two little ones playing and rough housing and the description was so cute!

@hotaruishere2133 2 года назад

This is weird, but I would actually like to pet a Birrin. Assuming that it would not be offended or antagonized by me doing so.

@LucarioredLR 2 года назад

most people don't like having their heads pat by a complete stranger so it's safe to assume you'd need to bond with one first

@heyozbee 2 года назад

@Lelo Stimulous bruh

@hotaruishere2133 2 года назад

@@LucarioredLR That's super true XD I wouldn't just pet one of them at random, at least not without permission first since they're such intelligent beings and all.

@hotaruishere2133 2 года назад

@Lelo Stimulous I have no idea what this has to do with my original comment, but okay!

@xx99Username99xx 2 года назад

In the Zones of Thought trilogy by Vernor Vinge, the Tines are a dog-like species whose sense of self and identity emerges at the pack level, rather than at the level of individual bodies, due to the unique way they emit and process sound. Normally, Tine packs have a much larger range of personal space than humans do, since if two packs get too close to one another, there will be interference between their "mindsounds," causing their sense of self to dissolve and their individual bodies to separate back into dumb animals. This dissolution of self is allowed to take place only during sex and warfare and only temporarily. In normal social circumstances, the packs communicate with one another from several yards away using a language that is completely different from the mindsound language that binds each pack together. When Tine packs first encounter humans, they find it difficult to understand how a single human body could house an intelligent being by itself. But once they figure out that among humans, each person just has one body, they also figure out that humans don't emit mindsound, and as a result, being close to one doesn't interfere with one's own sense of self. So the physical intimacy of being petted by humans is actually enjoyable to them, because it's an extremely novel form of closeness that they could never experience with one another without the noise breaking down their minds. It never dawns on them that this could be perceived as degrading, because their society has no real precedent for the significance of petting.

@imaredwhale2thenotsoelectr916 2 года назад

There's a whole bunch of other incredibly well thought out alien biology projects like Alex ries' s chirrah out there too: Like C.m kosemen's "Snaiad" project, Biblaridion's "alien biospheres" series, Wayne barlowe's masterpiece "expedition", (or Darwin IV if you're only familiar with the "alien planet" documentary) And the list goes on and on. I think these 3 aforementioned projects would make great video topics as well.

@youcantbeatk7006 2 года назад

Alien Biospheres doesn't even compare. C'mon. Everything else you listed is far more imaginative than land squids and giant spiders. The only real draw is the different perspective as his videos are done more from his perspective creating these creatures rather than trying to explain them as if they're actually real per-se.

@sabinekine2737 2 года назад

@@youcantbeatk7006 Shitting on Alien Biospheres because the art isn't as flashy or it's not been in production as long so it's "less imaginative" is pretty cringe. It's an extremely unique series that looks at evolution of life on a planet from its very beginning stages, explains the individual pressures and concepts that push evolution along, and has a considerable active community working together on the project.

@EmperorNiel 2 года назад

All the of them is worth checking out indeed. I also reccomend Serina: A Natural History of the World of Birds.

@youcantbeatk7006 2 года назад

@@sabinekine2737 I never stated the artwork as a reason why it's boring to me but I stand by the fact that it's not imaginative because it's not. IIRC in one of the early episodes he admitted himself that he wasn't trying to reinvent the wheel, that he was just doing it like a demonstration of how he thinks evolution works. Honestly compare all of the words you mentioned and you can't dare to honestly say alien biospheres is on the same level. It's detailed yes but it just doesn't do anything new.

@imaredwhale2thenotsoelectr916 2 года назад

@@youcantbeatk7006 i totally agree with you on the giant spiders thing, but cm kosemen's hypothesis of "drastic phenotypical convergence" could explain the resemblance between the osteopods and spiders.

@dirandrous7682 2 года назад

Dude I cannot express how happy I am that you covered the Birrin project!

@ilkku239 2 года назад

The number of people following him on twitter went up significantly.

@retroman355 2 года назад

You should look into serina. It's a world that is populated by finches and it shows their evolution. People would love it.

@silversauce2727 2 года назад

I was just thinking of that one! That would be so cool to cover

@tompotter8703 2 года назад

Created by the author of All Tomorrows.

@justashark776 2 года назад

@@tompotter8703 It's made by Dylan Bajda, not C.M. Kosemen

@tompotter8703 2 года назад

@@justashark776 ah. My bad. I just saw the two peoples works associated with eachother.

@justashark776 2 года назад

@@tompotter8703 It happens.

@immagical7036 2 года назад

8:20 I love how even tho the Birrin have facial structures completely different to our own you can tell that the rebel here is furious

@pedrobrunodeandrade 2 года назад

Such a beautiful and immersive journey. It's as if the creator was there himself to record this world's history. In a way, I feel like I'm watching a documentary about us, from a stranger's perspective. I was looking at the stuff from the website, too, and wow, what a place it is, this planet. There's also a lot of love for aeronautics. The Birrin aircraft are fascinating. I'd love to see a full illustration book by Mr. Ries, if he were to make one. Thanks for the video! :)

@totallynotana 2 года назад

9:40 so that's where that image came from, I'm surprised

@stoneforest2639 2 года назад

Oh my god he’s so cool. His art is so cool, I love subnautica so much and seeing the similarities between his personal series and Subnautica creatures is so cool. The squid shark has the same jaws as the birrin

@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 2 года назад

Careful how you say that name

@PondScummer 2 года назад

@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 ?

@ilkku239 2 года назад

Alex put SO many easter eggs in Subnautica: Below Zero from the Birrin project. Those also include Skydrop's white-green-blue colour pallete in Penwing, Penling and Titan Holefish, Birrin's quadrilateral jaws in the Ice Worm and in general, the common descendance between the tropical and arctic species (Stalker-Snow stalker, Peeper-Arctic Peeper, Holefish-Titan Holefish).

@alfredlaalpacadeageofempir9215 2 года назад

Holy shit! The birrin, i never expected a video about them.

@nakenmil 2 года назад

I know, right?!

@user-hd3rh 2 года назад

yeah there wearing swat armor 8:21

@robbabcock_ 2 года назад

Fascinating! I'd never heard of him nor his creations.

@mathieugariepy2948 2 года назад

My favorite illustration is the one with the riot gear. It shows how different an yet how similar they are to us.

@user-hd3rh 2 года назад

conflicts and war may be random for civilication

@kellisuzuki8889 2 года назад

finally! truly alien designs all in one world, they are extremely hard to come by and create. and damn, I knew the designs looked familiar, having played subnautica and blz for 4 years

@hamish3999 2 года назад

I love the fact that Ries contributed to the world of Subnautica. After playing through the first game (which was absolutely terrifying), I can't wait to see Below Zero for myself, and the incorporation of his work into the game. In particular the Chelicerate looks familiar to the Birrin, which I found interesting.

@The12hugo 2 года назад

Omg I just realized I've been watching this channel for a while and it only has 50k subs. I thought everyone knew this channel, it's so good

@BusterBuizel 2 года назад

Such a big inspiration for me! I love Birrin and all the artwork of it. I’m in the All Tomorrows fandom right now and I *trying* to hold a candle to the lore and worldbuilding of Birrin through my fanon Snake People country of Novy Lunia. A lot of people seem to like both my lore and artwork but I’m not gonna lie, Birrin is on a whole other level which is why it’s such a big inspiration.

@DemonicEngineer 2 года назад

A prime example of Imaginative realism. Really awesome artist.

@polish_boi3108 2 года назад

I’ve been following this artist work for years. Great to see their truly getting the recognition they deserve

@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 2 года назад

Reminds me of the work of Wayne Douglas Barlowe who along with H.R. Giger are the biggest influences on Ted Backman, the main monster designer for the Half-Life video game series.

@ZeeZeeBun 2 года назад

Saw some of this artwork a while back on DeviantArt.. Exceptionally awe inspiring stuff.

@JcoleMc 2 года назад

FINALLLY , Alex rise gets the attention he deserves , you don't know how long ive waited for this

@djprogramer973 2 года назад

I honestly can't stop watching this. It's storytelling to the extremes and I would've loved to have seen them in something like No Man's Skies. Imagine seeing something like that walking on 4 legs but pulling in nets on the banks of a river.

@walangchahangyelingden8252 2 года назад

A game is the next step, man. So many possibilities.

@djprogramer973 2 года назад

@@walangchahangyelingden8252 Or VR simulator. Ofcourse you can't see through 2 of the 4 eyes but maybe that could be compensated some how.

@walangchahangyelingden8252 2 года назад

@@djprogramer973 By connecting it directly to the brain? That's my idea but probably hard to commercialize. Hahaha.

@miketacos9034 2 года назад

Yeeeeeesss finally getting the attention they deserve!!!

@ilkku239 2 года назад

Alex's a blessed boi now. :P

@TheAustralianMapper5378 2 года назад

I love it when an alien species looks well completely alien.

@connorsimmons8781 2 года назад

Great video! I remember discovering Birrin years ago and falling in love with how weird, yet realistic it is I'd love to see you do a video on Sheather's Serina spec-evo project. It'd be impossible to cover in great detail in one video, but an overview would be awesome. It's really the gold-standard of speculative evolution projects!

@itsalily_lei_lei 2 года назад

First heard about Abiogenesis because he was a Subnautica: Below Zero alien desginer.

@anon515 2 года назад

all I know is that he made the chelicerate, which is def one of the best designed in below zero

@itsalily_lei_lei 2 года назад

@@anon515 Ah yes, evil shrimp.

@ilkku239 2 года назад

@@anon515 Subnautica: Below Zero's Wiki page shows he did a VAST majority of the creatures for the game.

@yassermelonvelociraptor4839 2 года назад

@@anon515 it's by far the least impressive design. I'll take literally anything else.

@yassermelonvelociraptor4839 2 года назад

@@ilkku239 It's very evident. I agree with you lol.

@maxthibodeau3627 2 года назад

half of these pictures just look like subnatutica concept art, they hired the right man for the job.

@backrooms_boy_0375 2 года назад

Hey, just wanted to say that I love your content and keep up the good work! 👍

@jackrutledgegoembel5896 2 года назад

So glad someone popular covered this!

@hotaruishere2133 2 года назад

NOOOOO WE NEED MORE!!!! THIS IS SO INTERESTING!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE BOOK COMES OUT!!!!

@whtwolfgames7983 2 года назад

I absolutely *love* the design of these aliens, and if they made a game set on this world, land-based and water-based, i'd buy it in a heartbeat

@nurgleGurgell 2 года назад

I absolutely love Alex Ries's works

@kaleeshsynth9994 2 года назад

This is so cool, the Birrin are pretty interesting.

@totallynotana 2 года назад

It's a good day when curious archive posts

@henrythekaktus 2 года назад

I feel like I’ve seen you before there’s a chance you’ve seen me

@totallynotana 2 года назад

@giantaxe8821 2 года назад

I love that you can tell he worked on Subnautica. It sounds weird cause like- y'know, artists are gonna have a similar art style across everything you do, but you can really see similarities in this from Subnautica things like Squidsharks.

@wobbmin3705 2 года назад

I think my favorite concept here is the Giants. Usually, races of giants are reserved for fantasy, but having them simply be a closely-related species that just happens to be much larger is a way for it to be believable and all the more interesting. Plus, there's the added touch of the Giants having a more distinct appearance and anatomy than that of the Birrin really drives home that they aren't just normal Birrin but huge.

@sansthedunker5685 2 года назад

I’ve always wanted to make up an alien world. Nice video!

@incyray9709 2 года назад

Gosh, its so cool and surreal to see this artist's work being discussed on YT; I still remember discovering their art on DeviantartArt waaay back several years ago, then seeing them get hired to work on Subnautica, and now they're being talked about on youtube! :D

@entombedmachine1518 2 года назад

This is some of the most impressive Alien Biosphere art I have ever seen. Wow.

@Spacecookie- 2 года назад

Elsewhere, a life-form is writing about the sci-fi race 'Humans',, and how they lived. Such weird life-forms standing on two legs.

@Noamevenhen 2 года назад

God, i really wish there would be a game abt it and not just a book. It can also be related to the subnautica universe since alex worked on the desin of the lifeforms there. I have some ideas for it A) its a multiplayer pvp battlefield style game where you choose a faction and fight with/against friends as birrin (with different game mods) B) a more like subnautice-ish game where you explore the ruins of the birrin, trying to survive, befriending with different factions (wich can lead to multiple endings) and even can ride some! (Idk, i would like to ride a birrin, maybe its because the way they look) C) an open world when YOU are a birrin exploring the vast world, fighting ememies, flying on spaceships and overall, i imagine it like a kind of horizon zero dawn style adventure. Anyway, that was enough info dump for today.

@Noamevenhen 2 года назад

Ah and feel free to tell me what y'all think!

@The.Heart.Unceasing 2 года назад

yes ! I always loved the art of Abiogenisis ^^

@mikorabago 2 года назад

I want more works with non-human intelligent aliens with this level of consistent world building, really!

@jerrybailey5797 2 года назад

Outstanding , very interesting . I would be interested in learning more about this fascinating alien world 🌎

@bluebrawler3558 2 года назад

i would love to see an ultra realistic CGI documentary about this. like the dinosaur ones coming out in the 2010’s

@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent 2 года назад

The Birrin is a race I would love for humanity to encounter. Intimidating yes. Possibly warlike yes. carnivores yes. However they like us had times of peace and technological advancement and like us can adapt. They are alien enough but still reconizable enough as similar to a large flightless bird for humans to not be too wierded out and it seems like us they really want to learn and discover.

@Trackers89 2 года назад

Alex has actually made some art showing humans and Birrin making contact, though I'm not sure how "canon" it is. One of these shows a human child and Birrin chick interacting with each other, so hopefully that's a good sign for relations between the species!

@DarthBiomech 2 года назад

@@Trackers89 It isn't canon anomore as far as I understand, and today's canon is that angel-like giant being a distant transhuman descendant of humanity.

@amysizemore2196 2 года назад

@@DarthBiomech but what about steam trains, what would the ones built by the birrin look like?

@sarahnade8663 2 года назад

They would probably find us way more terrifying then we find them. We can see elements of birds, horses and deer in them but there's nothing on their planet that even somewhat resembles us apart from the big predatory animals.

@ThrottleKitty 2 года назад

My favorite new channel! Please keep up the good work finding beautiful illustrations of speculative / mistaken / theoretical biology. Bio-art? Wait that just sounds like art grown out of flesh.

@greenghoul157 2 года назад

The birrin are surprisingly plausible as what an alien species on an alien planet might look like

@Bookspine5 2 года назад

The alien worlds and species you featured in your videos have helped influence a novel I've been writing for quite a while now. Thank you Curious Archive for sharing the creative power of these authors-artists. :)

@FalonRyan 2 года назад

That was so incredible. Thank you for making this! The Artist is amazing!!!!! Can't wait for the book Alex Ries!

@benpebbles4111 2 года назад

I strive for my series to be as good as this one. These drawings are SO GORGEOUS!!!

@Epoch11 2 года назад

I love this sort of speculation about the present and future please keep it up I will definitely keep watching and subscribe

@loweexpectations3222 2 года назад

Love abiogenesis art. It's honestly something special

@doctorheretic1417 2 года назад

This is very reminiscent of the much earlier works of Wayne Douglas Barlow.

@jonathanc.gillespie4897 2 года назад

Yep. Appears to be a positive influence.

@PondScummer 2 года назад

Speculative evolution is a genre, there's lots of cool stuff like that and this out there.

@blackraptor311 2 года назад

My thought exactly. Particularly his Expedition art.

@richie_23 2 года назад

Birrin is a wondeful world with lots of interesting stuff indeed, on a similar note you guys should do an episode on Snaiad, its a speculative alien world made by C.M. Kosemen, the same guy that made All tomorrows

@fredthecat9133 2 года назад

7:16 that’s pretty wholesome

@GlassesnMouthplates 2 года назад

I'm always fascinated by the topic of universe-building. It's why I tend to appreciate most sci-fi and fantasy movies that I watched even if the storylines of those films suck.

@rileyhall9320 2 года назад

I really like the Birrin. More often than not with speculative biology, alien means off putting. The Birrin definitely feel alien but I think they're kinda cute.

@samuelfawell9159 2 года назад

Great details, it’s nice to see a similarity in every creature, the 4 lobed mouth and face structure, similar to how earths life forms function s

@ticklemeelmo8387 2 года назад

Amazing vid! We need part 2 now!

@lha987 2 года назад

05:07 that thing in the water looks like squidshark in subnautica below zero!

@AfrosCanBeCool Год назад

Same!

@DrunkenIdaho 3 месяца назад

Yeah! In fact alex ries designed those creatures

@artsyastronaut9033 2 года назад

The art is amazing

@mikorabago 2 года назад

The world building is so detailed, it felt like I have discovered a possible area of reality that I have never ever seen!

@undynlicia7554 Год назад

The bir ran are actually kinda adorable in their own weird way, and I really want one as a friend!

@alphadraconis9898 2 года назад

Love to see this get more attention!

@sono_chi_no_sodium_chlorid7635 2 года назад

Hey I remember the Birrin I thought they were just a random character design submited to BaM Animations. And it turns out there is an entire planet created for them. Cool stuff

@crabbyink9849 2 года назад

What would be cool is different alien countries speaking different languages like we do. Most media shows all aliens speaking the same language and same culture and whenever there is another culture or language it's usually justified as being a subspecies or something