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yellosnacc · 5 months

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On the left, an older caretaker from some island culture. Sleepy babies get to hold on the adult's piercings. The ones too young get a ride in the basket.

On the right, an egg arch (a reproductive leader) of a coastal culture. The babies on their neck don't have the balance to walk but might not be so sleepy. Unlike the caretaker the arch carries their own children. They make great accessories but being your parent's keychains is also a good exercise, experts say.

Climbing on big uniimas is natural to a baby. Since uniima are evolved to be arboreal, it's better they can climb and grip as soon as possible. Their giant heads make it easy to hold their full weight on their jaws.

Before becoming a parent or a caretaker, one needs to realize they will also become a tree, a mountain, and a hanger.

#speculative biology #artists on tumblr #artwork #digital art #art #worldbuilding #speculative evolution #spec bio #uniima #fantasy #uniima culture #uniima c #parenting #alienart #alien species #speculative fiction

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cathchicken · 1 year

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Oh boy, the start of a probable series. The collector encounters an Uniima fellow!! (Uniima C sophonts belong to @/yellosnacc ) he would probably find their faces quite silly, always “grinning”.

I think a general exploration of a bunch of alien cultures would be fun for colly. But I’ll probably mainly stick to mine and mutuals sophonts so I don’t confuse random spec artists haha. But if anything I could save that for personal entertainment

#toh #the collector #speculative biology #sophont #uniima c

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grox-empire · 1 year

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Another DTCA doodle for @yellosnacc :)

Anatomy's a bit messy but i'm pretty happy with it regardless

#uniima #uniima c #speculative evolution #spec evo #spec bio #my art #creature

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monster-creator-12 · 7 months

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beeb-oob · 1 year

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Daily doodles because most of the stuff i make is just scribbles~

Daily doodles include:

• weird vampire faces

• lobster

• fish dragon thing and cat dragon thing

• me laying on the floor

• me staring at me screen

• yet to be announced alien species

• a Chirper, Uniima C, and Crown talking about tomatoes

Uniima C belong to @yellosnacc and Crowns belong to @charseraph !

If you have somehow managed to see my stuff before theirs, go check them out, they have the good stuff

#creature #creature design #alien species #xenobiology #spec evo #spec bio #speculative evolution #dragon art #dragon #fanart

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yellos2 · 1 year

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Gingerbread uniima man (Neal)

Yes I'm obsessed over him

Neal wip progress.

It's dealing me a lot of damage.

The hands just look wrong-

Anyway I made some new cultural stuff for Uniima C but before u see that a new pokemon game comes out.

There's airplanes, food, traditions, 2 new animals and of course the still unfinished wyverns..... Aaaaaah

#gingerbread #wip #digital painting #digital art #digital illustration #neal #uniima #yipee #autism creature

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yellosnacc · 6 months

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Welcome to the introduction (yippee)

I'm Philip/A/yello. I enjoy writing, art, science, and this is the blog focused on my personal brain worms.

My big brain worm is worldbuilding, and the world you are seeing is the World of All (placeholder name). World of All is placed on a single planet with multiple 'continents' that host independently evolved ecosystems and currently 4,5 sophonts/"aliens". This unique setup is all thanks to the Designers, mindless blobs that have managed to keep their landmasses isolated for billions of years (among other things). As a bonus, some of the blob physical manipulation is left in the sophont creatures' brains who have yet to understand physics on a deeper level.

Here are the 5 (O.s are having a redesign session). Mole stars have not made contact with the rest.

You can also find me on Twitter · Instagram · Bluesky ·

This post will be updated with time. Beware, many posts are outdated, but I try to mark them.

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yellosnacc · 9 months

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A small show of some very different central states uniima clothing. This is very small sample with only 3 and 4 being more universal.

From left to right - traveling representative, "egg master"/"gender supreme", pilot, casual commoner.

Fashion is very important for central and many other Uniima. All non casual clothing is custom made and rather than fitting a style it's designed to compete with other styles. This means very fast changes. Smaller communities like towns will have more uniform styles as they might have their own fashion guild that wants to be the best one.

Colors are also a VERY important part of fashion and even commoners will add some to their casual dress. I made this image more plain because that sort of stuff is personal. For the "egg master", white is usually the color of birth and life and is rarely personalized (but can show the wearer's accomplishments).

It follows these standards.

In many states, almost every outfit has a sort of skeleton that other pieces of clothing are attached to. It also serves as the underwear.

This allows the more flowy and loose fabric to stay controlled even when climbing.

While very varied among communities, centrals often hide more body with more layers and firm cloth than other regions which is partially because they are exposed to more sunlight and need protection from it. Doing "strategical" tree cutting for material and expansion, their lands have turned drier and sunnier. They still live mostly on trees but strongly manage the territory.

Lastly here's some non-explicit nudity of them to also show different body types.

#speculative biology #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #artwork #worldbuilding #speculative evolution #uniima #spec bio #fantasy #uniima c #clothing #alien nudity #this took too long #speculative fiction #alien species #alien

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yellosnacc · 9 months

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I don't know if this has been asked before, but do Uniima emote? If so, how do they do it? I've been following your worldbuilding for a while and I love how unique it is, and I've been wondering about this for a while

I did actually draw this before.

However, I did miss the important part, which would be sound expressions - the main way they express themselves, so here's that.

If you were a uniima in a uniiman society, you would hear this non-stop.

One can't exactly stop doing it without suppression.

And to accompany here's the older visual expression sheet.

#art #speculative biology #artists on tumblr #digital art #fantasy #artwork #worldbuilding #speculative evolution #uniima #spec bio #emotions #original species #alien species #speculative fiction #original alien species #spec evo #speculative zoology #uniima c

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yellosnacc · 4 months

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bigger Central religion post

Journey of the lost souls by an unknown pilgrim

A scene from the story of the "crystal Head".

With the help of a "harpy", the great sinner crosses the bridge to the new land as their sea-born crystal body cracks under the weight of a thousand souls.

If they were to fail, the sky may become richer, but the Uniima will end.

This is a bigger central Foru uniima religion post. All the information here is about the central religion's beliefs, not the world's biology or physics.

Now let's get the context for the painting.

To leave the Physical, one must die at a ripe age so that their wisdom can be put to the test. The glowing triangles are the souls of uniima. They resemble a larva/white and are parasite-like in behavior. After a soul is released out of a body by premature death (or created) it holds onto someone (soul-binds) until it's passed into a new body. Soul bonded can be anything with a soul but uniima souls are picky in what they cling onto and usually pick a parental figure, a friend, or pupil. When the soul senses an empty unii-body, it moves in. Twins/triplets are considered 'one-soul' with special powers.

The one depicted to carry this soul mass is the uniiman spiritual leader/s (their historical body and events), sometimes called the Heads, but there's definitely a better name in the native language (slomen and O.s use this name). The Head/s existed for most of the religion's history and is the one to name the 'uniima' (translates "own-one-mind". It's the name of the central people. Because of historical events, it caught on between aliens as the species name). Head/s is immortal because of a "curse" set on them for breaching into the spiritual world thousands of years ago. Since this event, they have been changing bodies and fixing their sins until today. Nowadays, they are considered the wisest, mentally strongest, and morally cleanest soul - an inspiration for everyone (which keeps them in power over Central Foru among other things).

More about the current Heads.

This art comes from an early chapter, only a few hundred years after the creation of people. After the Head dooms the uniima by peaking into the Spiritual, society starts falling faster than it did ever before, finally resulting in the 'death of creature people'. This society was one of constant sin and destruction since no holy parts were remaining (too complicated, let's leave that for another time), so this scene is something of a strange bitter-sweet moment. With both the land and the people gone (yes, land too), the Head is once more reincarnated - being put into a body of melted sand and rock. They collect all the wandering souls unable to ascend and travel to a new land with the help of a half-uniima-half-animal who feels sorry for the people it shares a soul with. This journey is the first major lesson and soul-cleaning of the Head. Now, what is the thing in their jaws?

This motive is common in images with the Head, but it's not very realistic for the time period. These "flesh lists" worn on the lower tongue-hand are a modern-ish invention. People wear these on special occasions. They show all the past lives on a uniima and can get very long in high mortality areas (soul moves until a body reaches the desired age to be final-judged). The significance and uses of these in status get very complicated, but I will keep it simple. A short scarf/list makes one seem strong, with potential, being naturally gifted, and wealthy. A long scarf shows weakness, and a tendency to sin, but also patience, and a wise mind (which in many cases is the most important feature of a person).

In religious art, "scarfs" help mark chapters, but in "Journey of the lost souls" it's to depict the scale of the tragedy.

Lastly, the Heads' stomach. It shows them moving a large "hole" out of their body. This is symbolism for shedding a sin. It's said a mind and body should be able to naturally "regurgitate" any "object" out of their stomach, clean of the evil within it.

Bad nature - sins, bad thoughts (even physical stuff such as poison and drugs), is stored in the stomach. The "hungrier" you are the more evil you have to shed and the more you are controlled by this "evil hunger". Being flagged as a "stomach-thinker" is not calling you a food enjoyer but rather an insane/deranged person. However, some regions consider the stomach the default thinking center (what's a brain?), so it's more like a scale of good to bad stomach.

If anything needs more explaining or isn't explained properly, please inform me in the replies or send me an ask for a dedicated post. Thank you for reading this far <3

#art #speculative biology #artists on tumblr #digital art #artwork #worldbuilding #speculative evolution #uniima #spec bio #spec evo #alien culture #uniima culture #culture #uniima c #fantasy #religion #The heads #alienart #alien art

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yellosnacc · 1 year

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Here is my current redesign of Uniima LL because they really needed it with the world changes.

For anyone who doesn't know Uniima LL are very closely related to Uniima C. They are an evolutionary branch that traveled to the lower deserts of Foru where they experienced welm... changes.

Just like Uniima C, their eyes are immovable and to focus they turn their heads (around 200°). Their expressions are also much like Uniima C (not the expression language but the system), with them moving their face markings in specific ways. This will sometimes lift other muscles with the markings, making them appear as smiling, upset, etc. to other humanoids.

They share a lot more with other uniimas than with the elven or human O.s.

The most common Uniima ll's believe of why they humanized is that their Designer wished for peace with the sloman Designer and gave them the ability to speak sloman(elven) language and soul.

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yellosnacc · 1 year

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-Outdated flora and details-

A small family

The two younger siblings still mostly eat "crop milk" from their parents but are already running around like the wild creatures they are.

Baby uniimas can walk and run a few days after hatching when their eyes are fully grown. Climbing needs a lot more practice so it's better to let them try climbing the parents before anything else.

Both parents take turns and will often compete a lot for their kids' affection (lovingly). Being the less-liked parent is a pain but to feed them you still have to work.

On average, there are two eggs per clutch with a pretty good survival chance for at least one.

bb zoom

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yellosnacc · 1 year

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-Outdated flora, rest is good-

Some basic coverage on wood

Some zoom-ins since it's probably unreadable at that scale

#digital art #art #artists on tumblr #artwork #speculative fiction #speculative biology #speculative evolution #spec bio #wood #uniima c #uniima #fantasy #fantasy culture #worldbuilding #guide #speculative fantasy

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yellosnacc · 1 year

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how is gender seen amongst uniimas or even any other sentient species, do they take an example of humans? do they even have a concept of it. srry if this is strange

Not a strange question, very good question actually.

For uniima c, our concept of gender is something of a taboo. Just like us, they are bi-sex, but unlike us, they have 0 sexual dimorphism and it's impossible to tell someone's sex on sight. This means that they also don't have a concept of homosexuality or heterosexuality but many pairs can't have children. Adoption is very common and families will trade eggs or get them from the community "birther".

There's nothing like our gender in Uniima c society but they do have ranks and gender-like stereotypes based on "courting traditions/rituals/skills". It's usually an artistic expression that is inherently romantic.

(Uniima ll have a very similar system but in some areas they have less rules and take some sloman inspiration)

For O.s, sexual gender doesn't exist at all, and in non-humanoid O.s no gender exists. For human O.s however, the concept of femininity and masculinity exists and they often choose an identity based on this. It is partially their own invention and partially inspired by elven/slomen.

For Slomen gender is actually less binary than for O.s. The females are usually bigger with bigger authority and males have bigger display features (I have not drawn that at the time of this post) but transgenderism is not a new concept in any way and is in most places accepted as nothing unusual. The average recognized set of genders is about 5. Some genders have spiritual meanings as well.

The stars are not yet very developed by me but they are very strict about sex and gender.

#art #speculative biology #worldbuilding #fantasy #artwork #digital art #spec bio #uniima #speculative evolution #gender #artists on tumblr #sloman #elven #o.#molestars #stars #uniima c

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yellosnacc · 1 year

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Why is Prof Faulkner's… head crest(?) far shorter compared to those of other Uniimas?

He doesn't know if it's a birth defect or a very early injury but it's one of those.

The crest is two horn bones fused together at the top, inside is the Uniima's vocal organ and the sound comes from the 4 holes at the front.

His crest is not really shorter, it's kinda just not there, making him physically mute. He can push air from his nostrils but it's no speech. It limits him in few other ways but he's doing fine.

(he also lacks all of his claws but those are definitely injury)

Sorry for using your question to infodump. Enjoy my not-refined-enough anatomy lesson.

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yellosnacc · 1 year

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Finally finished a pic of Fueem in their warm study/traveling outfit. They are a fancy one, who can afford quality bright clothing with their own symbols (however I need to figure those out before they are canon).

They have a single-piece dress/pants with a red 'suit' on top. When cold they will wear a bit more under that. There's also a leather backpack. These are ground clothes (better don't climb trees with them).

They also have gloves/socks but you are not supposed to notice those as they are uncool for a uniima c to wear.

Their tail is fashionably cut to be as little messy as possible but the 'feather fibers' are already growing back at the top.

(Fueem is one of the story characters and a student of Prof. Faulkner, they are the same student from that one comic).

#digital art #art #artwork #artists on tumblr #speculative biology #speculative evolution #spec bio #original alien species #fantasy #original species #speculative fiction #uniima c #uniima #fueem #lore #oc

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