The Extraordinary Life of a Terraformed World

Greetings from Planet Altamira — a spectacular alien world from creator Simon Roy.

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If you’re receiving this signal, count yourself lucky, because the folks on our research team have put together a special presentation on the charming creatures native to this jewel of the cosmos. And if these critters interest you, consider supporting the graphic novel Refugium on Kickstarter from Jordan K Walker and creator Simon Roy for a deeper look at Altamiran life. Now, pull up a chair, and prepare for a voyage across a planet of unmatched wonders.

0:00 Greetings from Planet Altamira!
0:57 The Wild Coast
3:41 Giants (and Pipsqueaks)
6:07 Extreme Survivalists
7:45 Gods of Jurado
9:11 The Highest Peaks
10:40 The Lichen Maze
12:19 Monsters and Man
14:03 A Most Peculiar Clade
16:16 A Planet Misjudged
17:34 More Secrets Remain…

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[Jordan_K_Walker_Art]

Thank you so much for making such a fantastic video featuring our book! Altamira is an incredibly rich and diverse biosphere, it's been super fun to open it up to so many fantastic artists! I hope everyone here will enjoy REFUGIUM in its final form!

[casyarttv]

I’m so excited you covered Altamira!! I’m an artist that gets to take part in this awesome project, I can’t wait for everyone to check this out!! This is the BIGGEST spec evo collab ever

[lucy_-ONI]

i love how all the artists get their own in universe rpg roles

[bauty]

ELEFANTITO LITERALLY MEAN LITTLE ELEPHANT, THIS IS SO CUTE

[Oliver_but_digital]

It was a joy contributing art to this project! Awesome to see an entire video dedicated to it!!

[negativedumpster]

I like how the whole "Terraforming an alien planet to make it more suitable for human life" thing is basically one giant metaphor for real-world habitat destruction. Granted, in this case, they're technically just replacing an alien ecosystem with a more Earth-like ecosystem; nevertheless, the parallels are still very much there. There's even the Kicking Wolverton, which was arguably spread to Altamira by accident. If it was accidental, then they'd be a parallel to many invasive species of real-world barnacles, which were inadvertently spread to inland regions when they clung to the bottoms of ships.

[MrDodo]

Can't wait to visit there! Pack your bags everyone, tickets are on me!

[sivanlevi]

I love how so many spec bio creators like Koseman and Ries got together for this, filling in not just the artwork, but the biological info too. What a team!

[_Wanderlustminded]

I love the cameos from other spec evolution artists in this project!

[Danimal]

This looks so cool! The blend of terraformed and not terraformed is always an interesting take!

Stuff like this brings me back to the good old days, reading Heavy Metal and finding articles in the 'Galactic Geographic' docu-fiction by Karl Kofoed.
The art and the way it was written like a scientific paper was such a joy!

[Mark_GL]

Some people watching this channel need to sub right now, it deserves way more subs. Thank you for divulging such quality content. I still appreciate learning about Simon Stålenhag from you.

[AphidKirby]

I'm so in love with Pinwheels!!!! Absolutely the best insect-parallel i've seen in spec evo works!

[AbhorrentArcana]

Fuck! And I just beat my addiction to supporting amazing spec evo projects! Damn you CA! Damn you!

[jennyfeare]

Man, how sick would a video covering Eaton's Runaway To The Stars project be~!? That work of theirs is such a delight, being more slice-of-life than just some grand, galactic epic.

[uufjxcx]

I want more of this type of spec evo related video's, please, explore more projects, its really motivating and also fun to watch.😅 And thank you for this entry in archive....

[Moses_Caesar_Augustus]

I really like the alien designs. They don't feel too earth-like but also not too alien.

[bunnycat]

I saw Jay Eaton's research in their blog but didn't expect you to cover this project so fast! Great video, thank you for bringing more speculative biology to us

[Cobra_Crown]

Life is horriflyingly and disgustingly beautiful

[Gabbyrod]

Your the first person I watch after I beat cancer!!!

[RandomName]

Ngl i wish we got hour long vids in this channel, i would sit my ass down in heartbeat and watch em fully when they come out, the current short ones are great still, love em