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Published: 2010-09-20 11:05:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 170368; Favourites: 3819; Downloads: 5476
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(For a basic view of the Birrin Bodyplan, which has 6 legs, see this link [slightly out of date] [link] )Refugees, faced with starvation and loss of livelihood by the diversion of the river that feeds the vast lakes they live upon, were shipped to uninhabited badlands in neighboring nations. The state responsible for the disruptive developments paid local poor governments, in arms and financial relief, to accept millions of displaced people inside their borders.
Ill feelings due to the destruction of their towns and habitat, anger soon erupted into large scale protests which the financially insecure and corrupt nations had trouble containing.
Seen here is a vast march from a nearby tent city; angry refugees storm an area of newly (but cheaply) build admin towers created to manage the huge displaced population.
Younger and angrier refugees quickly turned to violence, attacking understaffed riot police staff with knives and other improvised weapons.
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Beautifully done ^^ I like the emotion showed in it, and am very impressed at how 'human' these creatures are without appearing to be. They definitely trump most of the aliens seen in most science fiction media!
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Thanks
I am trying to make them relatable, without just being straight up avatar style blue people
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At the time of this drawing in the Birrin planet, how advanced is their technology compared to ours at present? Also, I like your work, I just found one of your works today, and I really like what your doing. I hope to see more!
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Is very strange, this is very familiar but in a wat very alien.
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We never may know what goes on in other worlds... it's safe to say they may be very much like ours, in whatever ways we care to imagine.
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Fascinating notion executed in a compelling way. Very impressive. Yet a little scary. If aliens make the same mistakes we do, what hope is there?
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May I ask a question?
The Birrin, are they an advanced race technologically? Because in this they have armour helicopters, a settlement and police shields but in other pictures they appear simple but with ancient yet vast temples like Kaybor Gate.
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IF you come to Earth you can see ancient tribes in africa, the pyramids, and also space shuttles and the international space station.
The Birrin are a society with lots of different cultures and history at different stages of development .
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You know what, I must go to Earth, I here its one of those places you have to visit before you die!
Ok, but I mean the Birrin aren't helicopter flyin' and temple building at the same sort of period are they?
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I like the familiar forms of technology here (the riot gear and the helicopter).
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reminds me of district 9.
your art is amazing!!!!!
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Can i ask you one thing 
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em nvm 
My interest in science has influenced my style, and each major work I try to render as accurately as possible without sacrificing aesthetics. Even if the creature or machine does not exist, studying science and quality reference material helps me try to make each picture improve on the last. Photorealism would be wonderful, but perhaps in a few years. I also love doing line art, a fun style reminiscent of comic books and the first style I used when I started out.
For wildlife illustration, accuracy is key and I use a variety of reference materials to ensure illustrations of existing creatures are as lifelike as required. " ^^
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i use references for every single image I do now
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true.. i miss judge using ref so bad!!!! i was like always tryin to work from imagination imagination.. fel guilty when i was using ref!!! SUCH AN IDIOT I WAS....
your work is just amazing! the thing with me is that i m still .. well no idea what i want to be.. fine artist, digital artist, illustrator, concept artist blablabla all of this
Aanyways time to not bored you to death! Good luck with your work : )
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Feels so much more relevant after the protests in Egypt.
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I like it. I just have one little problem. The culture and technology is to0 'human'. There's more than one solution to the various problems a sentient species has to face.
And, what kind of ecological niche did they evolve to fill? That would affect their psychology a lot.
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I dont know how to create non human technology.
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Just consider alternative designs that would work just as well.
Even though the Known Space books aren't hard sci-fi, they contain good examples of alien tech. For example, puppeteer tech tends to lack sharp edges due to that race's built-in cowardice. Just think about the species' psychology, and use that as a starting point.
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What specific elements are too human?
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Well, the helicopter looks like it could have been designed by humans. The riot shields also look a little too 'terrestrial'.
What are the conditions on the planet? Gravity, atmospheric pressure, atmospheric composition, temperature, whether the planet is tidelocked or not would all affect the form their technology takes. On a high gravity world, for example, towers like that would be a very bad idea.
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I think copter is justified. Laws of physics are same and planet have very similiar pressure & gravity, after all. And from that distance you cannot see these little details, like different handles to get in and out.
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Atmospheric pressure is slightly higher than earth, gravity about 95% of earths.
Can you suggest an alien configuration of a helicopter?
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Rotation period would also be useful knowledge here. As well as the planet's Semi-Major Axis, orbital eccentricity, axial tilt, hydrographic coverage, average surface temperature, maximum surface temperature, and minimum surface temperature. Any large moons? What's the hydrosphere's distribution? Large oceans? Scattered seas? What?
I'd have to know all of these before I could make a suggestion.
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I can help you with that for future deviations. Of course, if you are open to advice, suggestions, coordination in those terms etc.
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What specific elements are too human?
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I would say everything psychologically. Of course, considering their history as species (they was hunters/gatheres in tribes, too) it would not be surprising they would develop psychology similiar to humans.
And I suppose very alien psychology is way harder to create than alien biology. So Birrins as is are fine.
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bizarre, but very great image!
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Bam! And the robocop goes down. Very cool scene. And certainly an innovation to see six-legged hypothetical aliens in riot gear
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Young folk: no matter where they're fro, or even what species they are, they all seem to have crazy hair-dos.
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I like the simple design of the knife. Simple yet efficient. Nice work.
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Nice work. You should do more fighting scenes with these guys.
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I love this picture. It's almost Vinge-esqe in how it details the happenings of a society within itself rather than in relation to human observers.
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In the early days of the project I did want humans to invade. But for now, and since avatar did it anyway, I prefer to keep them alone
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Yeah, that keeps it more strictly within Xenofiction territory. Going to be looking forward to seeing how this fiction universe pans out.
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Wow, this so much like Earth, it's scary...
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Awesome pic, beside being a real treat to the eye it also mirrors similar problems that we have on Earth irl. I giv[link] it thumbs up
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christmasla ? i think i failed the first emotion
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You draw this? 
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The Birrin are often sort of an asshole race, aren't they?
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They can be
But they aint all bad
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