The Incredible World of the Birrin | Part I

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Somewhere in the vast unknown of space, alien life may be waiting for us. But these beings, even if they’re carbon-based like we are, probably won’t be the familiar humanoids present in many stories — but organisms which are truly, well, alien. Alex Ries is an artist who strives to imagine speculative aliens with genuinely unique appearances. He also worked behind the scenes on the various aliens of the video game Subnautica.

And Alex Ries’s magnum opus of speculative biology is his ‘Birrin Project’ — a saga exploring the world of an intelligent species called the Birrin. So much of this world has been fleshed out — from the geography, to the history, to biology, to the culture — and it’s all so inventive and so detailed, that it’s going to be a challenge to explore everything in just one video. So, this is part one of two on the Birrin civilization.

So, let’s begin our deep dive into this incredible alien world…

0:00 World of the Birrin
1:10 Planet Chriirah
2:43 Birrin Biology
5:07 Other Species
7:20 Birrin History: Pre-Fall
9:39 Outro

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[alexries]

Alex here: thank you so much for making this! I will be pitching the first book in the series at the start of 2022 so fingers crossed!

[lyly_lei_lei]

Something I love about this world is consistency. A lot of alien worlds just throw limbs together and make everything look completely unrelated to each other.

[Elijah_Yinkledoink]

I definitely want the book when it comes out.

[ComradeCorvus]

Fun Fact: Alex is also behind "metahuman", which you may know as the "Alien God looks down at lower beings" meme image. Its shown near the end of this video!

[PvtMartin]

The lack of aliens crabs makes this totally unbelievable. We all know that everything evolves into crabs!

[nakenmil]

Aw man, I've been following the artist on DevianArt for years, so cool to see someone cover this!

[KhAnubis]

This is so fascinating! Honestly I really love seeing all the cities, structures, vehicles, clothing, etc. from a non-humanoid species. Something I feel is really lacking in science fiction

[calebthangg]

Meanwhile in an Alternative universe: The incredible world of humans.

[basabromander]

I'd like to imagine that somewhere across the multiverse, there's a Birrin out there watching a video about those weird "humans" one of their artists came up with.

[romulusnuma]

I really love all the art of Birrin civilisation it's a really well realised hexapod society

[morganf]

So about the plants being red, that actually means that the sun gives off more red light than our sun. As while it is a small amount, over all, our sun actually gives off mostly green light in the visible spectrum. This might seem counter intuitive as why would you want to reflect the light the sun gives off the most? however as green light is reflected there is actually a small amount of light that penetrates deeper into the leaf and feeds more chloroplasts than the light that is just absorbed. Just a small nitpick but an interesting one non the less.

[AlfredoPuente]

I hate when aliens worlds are just "big earth animals" or a planet of only "super predators" I'm looking at you JJ Abrams.

[Axgoodofdunemaul]

I've been reading science fiction since 1953. Del Rey Books published my one novel in 1986. I have a strong preference for hard sci fi. I want to say this is absolutely the best work of its kind I have EVER seen. I'm going to find out all I can about Alex Reis, and I will support his work to my best ability. Congratulations to Mr. Reis and to everybody who made this video.

[JoshieboyStudios]

Your channel is really scratching an itch inside me that I didn’t even know existed.

[CAJfur]

I now want a show or movie based exactly on this outstanding work.

[TheRaptor]

I remember seein' this man's work in dA a while ago. Forgot their name and lost track of their work. I am so happy to see their stuff again in such neat scale

[kroneexe]

9:40 I've seen this picture a billion times. Finally I know where it's from.

[immagical]

8:20 I love how even tho the Birrin have facial structures completely different to our own you can tell that the rebel here is furious

[joaomendes]

Been following the Birrin "universe" ever since its inception, and I'm absolutely fascinated by the art, attention to detail and scientific accuracy. Good to see this being spotlighted!

[Alteori]

OMG You don't even know what valuable finds videos like this are to me!