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Looks spectacular. If i was a birrin i think i'd freak out a little.
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Only the brave swim with Sardu
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Another winner! 
Great stuff - as always
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This is so amazing! The Birrin is lovely, as always, but the Sardu is absolutely magnificent... I'm getting chills! The underwater seascape is really well done... I can't imagine how it was done if it's not a photo... but it looks fully painted.
I am in awe... once again.
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The seascape is a combination of hand painted and textures from Mayangs' site, most useful
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Cool! I like Mayangs' site, I've used it before.
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Just wondering, is there a grand master plan for this alien world? Like pictures pave way to some more condensed thing, like a book, or comic, or game, or...?
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Hopefully paving the way for all those things.
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Wow...
This is stunning, I'm speechless
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Wow. Sardu is really beautiful. And its hunting method seems quite scarry, especially when this "little" birrin stay so close to it. My first thought when i saw this drawing was: "Pity it has too small resolution for desktop wallpaper"
How inteligent is sardu? Like a fish, or rather a dolphin?
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I can send a bigger one if you like.
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You need to make a book about the Birrin homeworld, and explain it in a documentary fashion. Your world and its individual species are so well explained that I would be surprised if someone didn't want to use your designs for something like a movie!
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I would like to make a movie about them
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Do it, I would pay extra to see it!
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Love that huge aquatic creature.. the Sardu? very believable design
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I love the world you are creating! 
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The planet has many names as the birrin have thousands of languages
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I love how you think about your world. It takes a lot of work to make a real living, breathing world in your imagination and then actually execute the work that brings that vision to others. In so much SF a planet has one race, with one language, and sometimes even one environment. But you gave me a really good answer in that there are many languages on a real planet, as there are many cultures, just like on earth. But, what language is 'birrin' in, or 'sardu' for that matter? Is there a lingua franca on their planet, much like English is on Earth? Also, many human languages, despite using a different word, refer to Earth as 'earth' 'ziemia' (Polish) '地球' pr. chikyuu (Japanese), etc. These three examples all refer to the ground, or the earth. Despite language differences, is there some symbol that generally refers to their planet?
Anyway, you don't have to answer any of my questions. As a long time science fiction fan, I just love thinking about this kind of stuff. And I really love the world you have created through your work! Keep it up!
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Thanks for the response.
Birrin and Sardu are anglicised versions of birrin pronounciation. They do have a common trade language or two and it is these I draw the words from, however they are very approximate because birrin voices are very different to ours due to their anatomy. They do not use the word earth as in soil, but generally ship. They saw their world as a ship in many cultures.
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You see, that is how you come up with a really alien psychology... you forget the human bias and take a look at the world with new eyes! Every extant human culture I know of calls themselves "the people" and calls the Earth "dirt/soil"... and "the world" just refers to the parts they know about.
But you go and free yourself from all that while still keeping true to the biological/physical necessities and you come up with this totally awesome stuff.
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All too amazing, everyone one of these designs are awe inspiring
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Again, you never cease to amaze with the Birrin homeworld, and its many, many, many unique flourishes.
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Will this all be collected into a book one day soon?
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I'll keep my fingers crossed!
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Excellent depiction of an alien ocean scene.
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I really love the totemic look of the sardu. This might, in fact, be my favorite of all your creature designs 
Bioelectricity is usually generated by rows of muscle blocks. Why are those present in the jaws? Erectile teeth?
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Heh, pretty funny about the common ancestor. I can actually see it a bit with the shape of the head.
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The tiny thumbnail made this creature look like a submersible B-1 bomber. A hot rod space yacht based on the sardu design would look really sleek and awesome.
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Haha nice XD keep this color scheme too.
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I Doth See Some Similarities Here~
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Astonishing! With every new picture your world becomes more fascinating. Are you planning to do a map of the Birrin homeworld?
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I have a sort of map in my head. The problem is once I make a map all the mystery is gone, and that is part of the fun
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