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The Art of Alex Ries

@alexriesart / alexriesart.tumblr.com

The Tumblr of Alex Ries, creator of the Birrin project and concept artist on Subnautica: Below Zero
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I've noticed in a lot of your creature designs, you like to incorporate weird mouth bits, particularly ones with four jaws (like with the Birrin, or some beasties from Below Zero). Was there a particular inspiration for this? Could you tell us about it?

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I find it aesthetically pleasing and elegant. I think it links back to inspirations in my early life from Dune sandworms and the Graboids from Tremors.

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Anonymous asked:

What aspects of human culture would birrin actually enjoy more than their own society? Food? Entertainment? Sports? Or something else entirely?

Which birrin? ;)

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Would birrin find humans tasty? (yes this was prompted by the "what would birrin taste like" ask)

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I dont know enough about biochemistry to say for sure.

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How do you feel about fantasy or sci fi settings that assign one trait to all members of a race? (ex: all Orcs are violent)

Its fine, if that is the goal of the artwork, though its possible if not used sensitively it could feed into concepts of human prejudice. I prefer not to use it myself.

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Anonymous asked:

is the birrin home world kepler 186 f it has red plats it hotter and dyder it this case it will be 557.7 light years away form earth it this true

I have not chosen a star for the birrin world, but it must be relatively close to Sol.

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Are there any health repercussions to eating other Birrin like humans when we eat each other?

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There were transferrable diseases, which can be solved by curing the meat correctly.

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Anonymous asked:

Do individual Birrin like to travel across the planet?

There are absolutely adventurer birrin.

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Anonymous asked:

Would Great House internet servers be like an echo chamber? Are there some services in one house that are banned in other ones?

Less like an echo chamber, more of a large conversation.

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do birrin have any re-occurring nightmares like we humans do? for example, being naked at school, or losing all your teeth.

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Their stress dreams are related to early life stressors as with humans. That, as with us, depends on their cultural context.

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What inspired you to create this world, and how has it developed overtime? (in terms of design and world details)

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I have no idea why it started, as I was a kid at the time. But it used to be focused on the idea of humans invading an alien world, like Avatar, and the birrin were more humanoid.

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did the birrin ever have their robots in their everyday lives or did they just stay in labs and only get used rarely

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There were AIs like ours, and some basic robots. Mostly they were specialist machines.

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Anonymous asked:

so the birrin see more colors than use right and brown is mix of all the colors and all humans are on a shade of brown are human colorful to birrin

Birrin vision isnt as good as ours, BUT, they can see in multiple directions at once and are very movement sensitive.

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Will there be an exploration of the civil rights of the giants? I'd imagine it would be akin to certain mental health issues.

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Their relationship to the birrin is complex and varied a lot through time. I expect to explore it.