@@BigCroca 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.
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!
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)
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.
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.
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
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.
@@sarahnade8663 Similar to the mindset of how civilisation and technology are adaptations humans had to make to compensate for our physiological shortcomings.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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!
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
This is amazing work. Beautiful art, thoughtful fauna, and geography, and very interesting history. This is an absolute inspiration to continue my work, though I like to focus more on the language development of my own fantasy world recently.
"He also worked behind the scenes on the various alien designs in the video game subnautica" **looks at the Birrin** **looks at Al-An** Yup I can see it
The image towards the end that shows a humanoid of massive proportion makes me think humans exist in this setting as significantly more advanced beings.
That because they are humans. The world of Birrin takes place millions of years into the future and humanity had evolved into god like beings similar to the Asteromorph in All Tomorrows.
@@allendepacheco3419 That's not cannon , Alex rise says that humans live in space and have splited off into many different species , the birrin and humans have never actually contacted each other
It's creativity like this that makes me feel like I have no creativity whatsoever compared to them. XD Truly amazing stuff! It's probably on the level of Brandon Sanderson's world imagining.
Curious Archive: Too much amazing stuff, the video will be too long so we'll split it into two Me who's going to watch them back to back anyway: oh yeah, no problem 🤔
Part II, for anyone who missed it: th-cam.com/video/PfZ6RvgmS6s/w-d-xo.html
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Our sun already emits mostly green light, plants reflect it because it’s too strong
Is this a book like "All Tommorows"?
@@BigCroca 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.
When is the book gonna released?
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!
Alex ur a noob
I can't wait, do you have any idea what you will be naming it?
@@animatorshub7448 Two Sky River is the working title
@@alexries3650 Thank you, I will make sure to look out for it
@@alexries3650 Sounds like a good name
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!
9:43 for reference.
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)
@@mitchh3092 i know right i was suprosed when i found out he drew that
Part of the birrin universe if you see part two
@@eliasmagus5086 hah!
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.
This feels like a jab at Subnautica.
Edit: man I should have watched a few more seconds BECAUSE HE LITERALLY WORKED ON THE GAME.
@@funnyswangoosething5088 Yes, it is sort of a jab at Subnautica. I love Subnautica but it doesn’t have much consistency.
haha i dont know if that sort of consistency is what subnautica is going for
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.
You're exactly right.
I definitely want the book when it comes out.
Agreed.
Hell, I want a movie with Ries as head writer and director. It would be something actually interesting for once.
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@@ccriztoff Well, I have the best movie name idea, like ‘The Other World’ or ‘A World Beyond’
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
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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.
@@sarahnade8663 The human body's lack of natural weapons is more likely a result of our tool use and sociality, rather than its cause.
@@sarahnade8663 Similar to the mindset of how civilisation and technology are adaptations humans had to make to compensate for our physiological shortcomings.
@@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.
Meanwhile in an Alternative universe: The incredible world of humans.
It amazing what the lifeforms of the distant earth planet look like!
As the equatorial regions became too hot to live and humans fled to the north and south~
@@NPSao Nah we go to another planet due to the earth is now a hothouse and the entire oceans are toxic due to pollution
The humans fled their homeworld to the fourth planet in their solar system
More like the shitty world of humans.
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.
Completly accurate. Great comment.
I was thinking along those lines and confusing myself. You answered the question well.
plants wherent always green on earth though and thats not the only theory / idea to why there green know
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.
What about red algae on earth?
The lack of aliens crabs makes this totally unbelievable. We all know that everything evolves into crabs!
#WHEREARETHECRABS
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Give it time.
Mr crab took them
I really love all the art of Birrin civilisation it's a really well realised hexapod society
Your channel is really scratching an itch inside me that I didn’t even know existed.
Look up SpecEvo channels on youtube. Thats what our subculture is called
Same
You ever get the feeling where you are itching so you scratch it but it feels like its inside your skin
Same
I now want a show or movie based exactly on this outstanding work.
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
Oy, now there's a name that hasn't aged well.
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
Even worse it's when the supposed aliens look exactly like humans and can even reproduce with them.
@@axolotl1777 gotta get those alien cheeks man
You should check out Birrin aviation and space tech next Id think you'd like it
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.
Dude I cannot express how happy I am that you covered the Birrin project!
The number of people following him on twitter went up significantly.
9:40 I've seen this picture a billion times. Finally I know where it's from.
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!!
A new, unique gerne.
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.
Subnautica actually got me into speculative biology, so I can credit this guy for my interest in it.
9:45 ohhh so this meme is about the Birrins....
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.
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.
@@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.
All the of them is worth checking out indeed. I also reccomend Serina: A Natural History of the World of Birds.
@@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.
@@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.
9:40 so that's where that image came from, I'm surprised
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.
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
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.
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
@Lelo Stimulous bruh
@@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.
@Lelo Stimulous I have no idea what this has to do with my original comment, but okay!
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.
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.
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
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.
A game is the next step, man. So many possibilities.
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Or VR simulator. Ofcourse you can't see through 2 of the 4 eyes but maybe that could be compensated some how.
@@djprogramer973 By connecting it directly to the brain? That's my idea but probably hard to commercialize. Hahaha.
I’ve been following this artist work for years. Great to see their truly getting the recognition they deserve
It's a good day when curious archive posts
I feel like I’ve seen you before there’s a chance you’ve seen me
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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!
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.
NOOOOO WE NEED MORE!!!! THIS IS SO INTERESTING!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE BOOK COMES OUT!!!!
FINALLLY , Alex rise gets the attention he deserves , you don't know how long ive waited for this
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
half of these pictures just look like subnatutica concept art, they hired the right man for the job.
First heard about Abiogenesis because he was a Subnautica: Below Zero alien desginer.
all I know is that he made the chelicerate, which is def one of the best designed in below zero
@@anon515 Ah yes, evil shrimp.
@@anon515 Subnautica: Below Zero's Wiki page shows he did a VAST majority of the creatures for the game.
@@anon515 it's by far the least impressive design. I'll take literally anything else.
@@Astro_Aladfar It's very evident. I agree with you lol.
I want more works with non-human intelligent aliens with this level of consistent world building, really!
So glad someone popular covered this!
I absolutely love Alex Ries's works
I’ve always wanted to make up an alien world. Nice video!
I strive for my series to be as good as this one. These drawings are SO GORGEOUS!!!
The birrin are surprisingly plausible as what an alien species on an alien planet might look like
Yeeeeeesss finally getting the attention they deserve!!!
Alex's a blessed boi now. :P
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.
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!
@@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.
@@DarthBiomech but what about steam trains, what would the ones built by the birrin look like?
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.
This is so cool, the Birrin are pretty interesting.
I was also looking at doing this topic, it’s super fascinating
Yooooo azfk good to see you here! Could you do a vid on this sometime?
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.
yes ! I always loved the art of Abiogenisis ^^
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.
Outstanding , very interesting . I would be interested in learning more about this fascinating alien world 🌎
The kind of content I love!
I really hate the fact that most of the aliens we see online are humanoid,it just doesn't make a lot of sense.
I mean, it could be convergent evolution......or maybe just design choice
This may be one of my favourite fictional worlds. I’d love to have some kinda story or plot on this. Knocks anything in the media out of water
He is 1 of my favorite artists, as thinking out alien life was my childhood hobby. See someone else doing it with commitment feel my heart with joy.
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
3:06 they are land version of squidshark
I remember discovering Alex Ries' DeviantArt channel more than a decade ago and falling in love with his aesthetic and his attention to detail.
I love this sort of speculation about the present and future please keep it up I will definitely keep watching and subscribe
can't wait to see part 2
This is very reminiscent of the much earlier works of Wayne Douglas Barlow.
Yep. Appears to be a positive influence.
My thought exactly. Particularly his Expedition art.
Love to see this get more attention!
dude this is one of my favorite artists period
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
This artwork needs to be published!
05:07 that thing in the water looks like squidshark in subnautica below zero!
Same!
Yeah! In fact alex ries designed those creatures
Amazing vid! We need part 2 now!
i love how Ries snuck so many nods to his own created world into subnautica
So cool to finally see someone covering this
I follow the artist on DA and been a fan of his work for years! Thanks for uploading this in TH-cam!
7:16 that’s pretty wholesome
This is so interesting keep up the good work man
Ever since I watched your first video I couldn't stop myself from binge watching. Keep making these types of videos.
The art is amazing
since this dude made subnautica I already knew the designs were going to be good, especially the sea designs
Brooo this is amazing I can’t wait to learn about the rest of the world
I've been following Alex for years, so nice to see him get some recognition
I love alien zoology because anything can happen
Finally, somebody’s talking about Birrin
I can see some Wayne Douglass Barlow influences in his art.
6:30 the pseudo raptor reminds of the shriekers from the tremors movies
I am 100% buying this book. I’ve been following Alex’s work for years now.
I've been following his work since the beginning its so cool seeing someone make a video about it!!
This dude is awesome, been following him for a while
This is amazing!
I've been following his art work since 07'!
This is amazing work. Beautiful art, thoughtful fauna, and geography, and very interesting history. This is an absolute inspiration to continue my work, though I like to focus more on the language development of my own fantasy world recently.
DUDE! THESE ALIENS LOOK AWESOME! I love quadrapedal creatures!
Baby birrins are adorable
This feels straight out of planet 4546B and I love it
Okay now I need a book of this.
"He also worked behind the scenes on the various alien designs in the video game subnautica"
**looks at the Birrin**
**looks at Al-An**
Yup I can see it
The image towards the end that shows a humanoid of massive proportion makes me think humans exist in this setting as significantly more advanced beings.
That because they are humans. The world of Birrin takes place millions of years into the future and humanity had evolved into god like beings similar to the Asteromorph in All Tomorrows.
@@allendepacheco3419 That's not cannon , Alex rise says that humans live in space and have splited off into many different species , the birrin and humans have never actually contacted each other
@@JcoleMc Oh that's also very interesting. So you would basically get the typical green guys, but they're actually relatives we haven't seen in ages?
The bir ran are actually kinda adorable in their own weird way, and I really want one as a friend!
This is super intresting!
I've been following Alex's work on Tumblr for years, good to see them in the spotlight
Does anyone think that these guys would be perfect allies for humanity?
On Deviantart, Alex (Abiogenisis) has a work named "Altruism", which shows the babies of both species interacting.
Oh, my gosh! That is the first time I see a video about the Birrin here on TH-cam. You have my thanks for that.
Is it just me, or does anyone kinda wanna... hug a Birrin? Like, aren't they just weirdly adorable?
It's creativity like this that makes me feel like I have no creativity whatsoever compared to them. XD Truly amazing stuff! It's probably on the level of Brandon Sanderson's world imagining.
Curious Archive: Too much amazing stuff, the video will be too long so we'll split it into two
Me who's going to watch them back to back anyway: oh yeah, no problem 🤔