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Published: 2010-01-27 09:28:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 107026; Favourites: 1498; Downloads: 1021
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A Headshot of a large predator from the Birrin world.Upper eyestalks contain eyes and ears, lower contain eyes and sensory tentacles.
Most creatures related to the Birrin have 4 'lips' covering their jaws. However in this case the upper lip has evolved into a head shield which helps the creature push through dense forest. The blue membrane is used for display and can be retracted under a shield when not in use.
The animal hunts like a large heron, snatching smaller prey by shooting forward its long neck. It swallows most food whole, or by tearing it apart with its smaller inner jaws and toothed tongues.
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Is a fully-grown individual of this species similar to an average sized Birrin?
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Like apex predator big?
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Can I just say that your artwork is amazing?! It reminds me so much of Wayne Barlowes artwork in his book Expedition. Are you intending to make this world of yours into a book similar to that? I would love to buy it and read it if so.Β
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Book is underway
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Awesome! I'm so going to buy it when it comes out!
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Totally reminds me of the Goa'uld on Stargate SG-1 - little snake like things that moved very fast and had mouths that opened by spreading in all directions. Creepy and dangerous... both the Goa'uld and your design.Β I like theΒ colours you used and how the open mouth kind of looks like a plant one way but the mandibles of a beetle the other way. Β ... Definitely still looks like a penis though π, sorry π .
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Yeah no escaping the wang
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sigmund freudΒ would have a field day with this π
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sometimes an alien head is just a human penis
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Yep if alien has taught me anything is that the longer you look at it Β the more it looks like penis
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So I guess everything on Chriirah has the same mouth type?
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Everything on the Flowerjaw line of evolution
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And there are Flowerjaws outside of Chriirah?
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If there are they would have had to be artificially transferred
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Is this a worm or something of a long-necked centipede?
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Actually it is related to the birrin, so behind the neck is a multi legged body
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Yay! Just wanted to know so When the final design for an alien species of mine called "Jijiku" is done, I may want to commission an art of it...
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at first glance (without paying much attention) it looked like a weird alien penis, so i looked closer and wow, it looks like it could be (could this be a back story??? please?) something out of an anime, some kind of creature on... some kind of "thingy" that came from outer space to planet earth, oooh, and would its colour change when in contact with different materials, kinda like a chameleon and it can hypnotise people and talk through their bodies and they are running away from another extraterrestrial being.
(Australian spelling)
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It is part of the birrin universe, and when I update it I will definitely de-penis it a bit
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This is actually really beautiful. I especially like the coloration. I like how it does not look like any terrestrial creature, but still looks like something that could actually exist.
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Tried to bring together principles other animals use, rather than just copying any one creature.
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have you ever doneΒ anything for science fiction movies.I like your artwork.
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okay maybe this is more barnacle lookingΒ
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Looks similar to that Mutant JellyFish from Godzilla the Series
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Reminds me of the designs in Avatar. Really inspiring, I find it hard to "think through" something before representing like you seem to have done here, it seems like you thought through every aspect of the creature resulting in a very interesting and most importantly believable design. Bravo!
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The fun part for me is figuring out how to make it all work
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are there eyes near the base of the lower tentacles? also, are the eyestalks retractable or do they stay like this all the time?
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There are eyes at the ends of both eyestalks, and yep they are retractable, usually retracted when afraid or tackling prey.
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so the circular shape near of the lower eyestalk isn't an eye? so it is the sheath to which it retracts? and I have noticed that some of the animals only have one thick eyestalk on the top and not two (for example the xenoraptor?), and I have seen the same on the older birrin sketches. is it just how time went and you gradually changed the basic anatomy a bit?
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Yep, the circle is part of the eyestalks' protection.
And yes, those changes you have noticed over time are just part of the development progress. Now they all have two on top, two on bottom.
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Thanks for the answers, i know I've been spamming you a bit lately...
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Spam is no bad thing
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As long as I am not hit by a bus or something, I will put a book out. Even if it takes a decade it will happen.
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