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I know u guys love walking so I tried to do my first walk cycle and made a mistake of trying to loop it. And meat legs are overrated.

Also trying to give you a bad brain lesson with Neal but he's slow.

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.

Just sketching around but take this as an introduction to the criminal mind behind 'the alive plane' - Wrath flyer.

Big helper in the extinction of the largest wyvern.

They are probably in uniima "jail" or dead today.

They are not an important character but a big deal historicaly.

Hopefully Canard (the uniima who dreams of electric planes) isn't in any way inspired by this inventor's work.

Thinking about Sloman redesign with some animal there for reference. Stalk eyes thoughts. Still, idk what their body should be like but it might be more bird-like than uniima ll.

I'm considering a Uniima ll-sona Also just sketching around for more experimentation

The hair is probably unrealistic for uniimas but it's more my hair.

definitely a guy

hello critters

helloo

Current look for the most humanized of Uniima ll. Southwest human uniima. (they are not normaly bold like that and some do have tail feathers too).

The uniima c on the right should be size accurate comparison. (if the ll is around 175cm bipedal).

However, even the most humanized Uniima don't spend all their time bipedaly as it's very tiring for their spine and legs.

When quadrupedal, they fold their hands so that their unfused wing fingers (that are bit stif compared to the rest) lay under their main fingers. (Or they get shoes that do a better job.)

Still need to draw a side view but pretend this is very finished.

What is an... "alive plane"?

An alive plane is very illegal activity stuff (in most places)

old design-inaccurate post for gods (i need a better name for them, this one is confusing) (link shows body horror)

it's not easy or safe to do this

A battle sketchy

and probably the only drawing so far having all people at once?

This Sloman armor is mostly leather and bronze/iron. Speed is important for this guy and it's not great to be a metal golem if you want to use your legs as an additional weapon.

For the ifey their armor is their main weapon. The two claw-ish things in their mouth are something used for hunting (made of wood or bone) but they aren't strong enough to pierce an opponent. The intended use of this very heavy armor is to get it stuck in someone, even if the wearer doesn't come back.

This uniima's heavy ground armor is made of wood and chainmail. Additionally to that, they also hold 4 weapons. 2 beak blades, 1 double-shield, and something to take out soft eyes probably.

Most societies are still strongly pushing the 'art' of battle. The current conflicts are regional, between countries, cities etc. but they are still very common. They battle for land, resources or due to beliefs or dumb misunderstandings.

There are not as many interspecies wars as they live on separate continents with only the bridges between the continents being shared and fought for.

Luckily for residents it's not too appetizing for rulers to try conquer alien territory when they aren't sure what lives there or what's edible. But there are always exceptions.

Hi there

I'm being a bit less active rn and I'm sorry about that. Got me into bigger things like the brain comic and city illustrating but I'm sooo slow and need to study for an entrance exam.

Here are some sketched pages (the text is a placeholder, the actual words are in my script). Neal will explain some very modern biology as you can see, but mostly how the designer structure works and where to find it.

Also an oc and some au content from a little fun thing on a server. The oc is a uniima ll hybrid who, unfortunately for them, has to work on a giant space station.

do the uniima not chew their food at all if they hold both the plates and utensils with their 2nd jaw? Do they have strong stomachs that prevent them from choking or are they are certain to always eat small or mushy food that makes it a non issue? Do they have strong stomachs that mean they never have to really worry about choking

It's true Uniima generally prefer soft foods like fruit and eat many mushy things but they can chew too.

While using their beak and "tongue hands" for manipulation, they have adapted their secondary mechanisms for processing.

Because breathing and digestive system is completely separated, Uniima and their ancestors have lot of control over their throat and bonus organs to get rid of things or push things farther. The clade that Uniima belong to have different levels of tooth covering in these parts.

This back "jaw" is not the strongest because it's not as well jointed or muscular for chewing but it does get the job done. Most of the remains will get finished by the stomach acids that are still stronger than those of a human because of the uniima wyvern ancestry (true wyverns generally swallow large prey whole).

Colors are only for navigation.

Might change some of this in the future but I like it rn.

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.

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.

Uniiman mount. They are present in almost every region either for travel or silk or both.

Something I forgot to add is their face plate rotates depending on how their body is angled. It's limited in movement but it gives the animal better spacial awareness. They have few eyes spots in their armor too but less sensitive.

More to their biology - while looking like a giant lobster they come from the same "fish" ancestors as Uniima. They belong to a group that kept their 3rd pair of limbs for locomotion, though these limbs are more specilised than the rest (in uniima the 3rd pair is part of their internal organs).

Been keeping this away for long since its a very out of context specific stuff.

These are the Heads - the mostly spiritual leader of the central Foru micro-state collective. Their role is to be a guide for all the leaders (archs) in central Foru and speak for all of them on an international level. They also bless lands and people and generally are well-liked by them. They can make big decisions, but it's ultimately on the archs if they comply (but the pressure is strong).

Every head has a more specialized role, each representing a 'sense' of their one shared soul (hearing, seeing, touch, thought...) and people they are patrons to (the old, the "rich", the leaders, the priests...). Each central Foru micro-state usually has its favorite head that they want to see the most in their community when bringing them news or blessings.

here are closeups

The Heads are the center of a religion practiced in the region. In short - the Heads share one spirit that in ancient times belonged to a priest who misused their power to get to the spirit world and instead became forever stuck in the material world. After many reincarnations, the priest became a wise leader who learned to speak with the spirit world and make final peace between the worlds of spirits and the material.

I would need to go into more religion details to go over that but that can be a separate post. Let's talk about how they get their role.

A 'competition' is held to determine the best leader, most spiritually attuned, most well-thinking, and best-presenting individual. The Heads in position at the time with a few other high-ranking individuals will judge the participants and then make their pick at the choosing ceremony. Luckily there are not too many to choose from, there are many requirements to participate.

However, the one picked isn't one that will become a head, they would be far too old at the time. Instead, they will force their system to make a rare phenomenon happen. This means making more of themselves with cloning (having babies grow out of diploid cells with no need for another person). This is usually achieved when under high amounts of stress and loneliness.

The uniima egg naturally holds 4 larvae but usually only 1-2 develop fully while the rest becomes food for the surviving ones. This clone egg has 4 identical whites (pre-babies) in them that get special care to ensure at least 3 survive. There have been heads with one member before and with 2 and 3, but 4 is a miracle as the bottom corner larva almost never develops enough to hatch. This egg is very lucky.

The identical quadruplets are given to be raised in different environments. These environments will decide what they represent as adults. It will also give them better perspectives of the world, making it easier/more difficult to make big decisions when the time comes.

Additionally, because there are 4 heads this time, a new environment had to be introduced. This environment was that of small communities, minorities, and generally people living in poorer conditions (yes, for the past Heads, war was more important than their people suffering (it's a very central Foru thing)). Unfortunately for The Ear, they are not respected everywhere, and many people assume them to be a fake among their siblings.

You can also see the heads have each their own signature and each Head generation has their own symbol that is recognized outside their writing systems.

Sketch dump

Another Uniima ll try. The body is meh but I like the head and neck much more than last time. Also, just them having bigger heads than slomen is right. However extra humanoid ones would still exist in a place. Ignore the random bones.

Just a little amphibian.

Snailke

More of this fuccin guy

I don't like planets this will end bad

the blorbos

This took a while because I wasn't sure about some visuals but I love my blorbos and how they ended up.

For anyone new to my characters, on the left is Neal, the professor of acoustics, sound manipulation, and other physical stuff that people of this time period can't differentiate very well. He lives a simple normal sloman life.

On the right is "bio man" (I still need to come up with names for 80% of my characters even though I have had them for ages). He teaches everything biology-related in a small school in a completely different country. But he would rather travel and discover the nature of the world (which he does with Neal in the story).

If it's not clear, they enjoy each others company (or at least will). This picture is for me to feel warm and to show the different ways they look at the world. It's abstractly set in the future where Neal gets to have a basic fasion sense and more open feelings.

Uniiman mount. They are present in almost every region either for travel or silk or both.

Something I forgot to add is their face plate rotates depending on how their body is angled. It's limited in movement but it gives the animal better spacial awareness. They have few eyes spots in their armor too but less sensitive.

More to their biology - while looking like a giant lobster they come from the same "fish" ancestors as Uniima. They belong to a group that kept their 3rd pair of limbs for locomotion, though these limbs are more specilised than the rest (in uniima the 3rd pair is part of their internal organs).

Which one of your creatures tastes best when cooked?

I was planning to do a bit more than this but sadly my mind is not doing the thing (the focus). Also- the "tastes the best" here only applies to some people of a single species.

This is a parasitic fruit (it does not aid in reproduction of the plant) you only really see once a year. It's often hard to spot and even harder to harvest at the right time as it's one of the few mobile fruits that changes its host plant regularly. (And when ripe it explodes and rots away very fast.)

However, because of its size, rarity, and traits, it's considered a delicacy. If you were to compare it to human foods, this fruit is fatty, very sweet and the bottom part can taste quite meatlike.

It's best served steamed or 'grilled' with raw eggsseeds. No seasoning added. Don't overcook it or it becomes mushy inside.

Can be made into gourmand alcohol.

Foru flora fruit reproduction - for context: The fruit of Foru trees is alive. Small flying animals, sometimes difficult to see with a naked eye, spread 'pollen' (sometimes also spores/seeds) of plants and later some of them attach themselves to a new plant. There they begin injecting the plant with signals that make it start feeding them. As the small organism matures it loses its eyes, legs and stops producing wastes. The plant, now connected firmly to the animal grows it's seeds inside the animal, using it as protection and 'incubator' of those seeds. In the meanwhile the fruit also gets fertilized and produces eggs in its top layer. While it depends on species, most often a ripe fruit dies and opens its back to release hundreds of small frying creatures. The remaining fruit might get eaten by another animal or fall on a comfy spot where seeds can start growing.

These designs might not be final. Still working out Foru flora.

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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.

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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.