You're going deep into prehistory here, I mean if I remember dogs were domesticated like 30kya ago. ... I wonder how your main character would react to a pet dog? Would she be afraid of it? Mystified by the idea? For that matter would she consider farming a terrible mistake? For that matter I think she predates alcohol? I wonder how she would regard a good stiff drink (not like a bud light or something, I mean a good drink, maybe a cider?).
@@ASpaceOstrich yes but I'm thinking of intentionally creating alcoholic drinks, of which the earliest evidence I'm aware of is only about 7000 or so years ago. Those drinks would be stronger than fermented fruit.
I love new content! Your willingness to embrace the difficulties of a palaeolithic setting have given my the confidence I need to fully embrace the bronze age setting I've always wanted to create!
Aaand all caught up. Gotta love the Creative's "Hey that's a lot like the thing I was gonna do.. I suck, this idea is now dead to me. Someone is already doing it better." gut reaction when you come across similar ideas. Lol, which was the journey I just went on. But then thinking about it, there were enough differences that it wouldn't feel the same. So. Great minds and all that! Your deep dive into this type of stuff is absolutely up my alley. Having researched similar things before finding your channel. So the work you've put in has saved me a LOT of time, and your ideas have inspired and reinvigorated me. Specially aesthetic wise and visually. Since I'm more of a writer than an artist. Clothing was already a big thing I was starting with, but I hadn't thought about the details as much. Or I was too focused on what they would be like at a particular point in the timeline that I hadn't thought about differences they might have had in the Paleo/Neolithic eras. Weapons however I'm a bit more passionate about, but only to an enthusiast's level. Not an expert*. But when I saw the spear you were talking about, then subsequently changed, I hadn't thought it was that bad. Perfectly optimal? Probably not, but plenty of personal and cultural reasons why humans did less than optimal things. Even beyond the almost infinite non-practical reasons like religious, superstitious, something to do around the fire, etc. Slipping in a few bone fragments or sharpened sticks into the wrapping wouldn't have thrown the weight off THAT much. 1: If it was more of a melee spear then getting used to the weight is no problem. 2: If it's a throwing spear, again, they'd get used to it. They would have to with any spear really, stone isn't as consistent as metal is anyway. So surely they'd have picked up new spears and felt the difference, without any adornment. 3: If a weapon works for a people, then they aren't as likely to try changing it. just for the sake of being more efficient? Nah. Maybe it would be 5% more effective, but maybe it wouldn't be and I wasted a spear on food that could keep me alive. Those extra spines and spikes could also mean that a near miss causes at least a little damage, which means a blood trail to follow. Or a little damage on an enemy, plenty of weapon techniques that aren't kill shots. As long as it isn't ridiculous, although, even then I could still see arguments to be made, then if it works for them, it works for them. And yes, just through sheer amount of spears made and iteration you'll come to a more balanced and efficient weapon. But these people are also from much earlier, with no written history or wide interconnectedness with other humans that could teach them. Obviously it's up to you, but just wanted to give an alternate opinion in case you need some ammo to justify keeping the thing you like more. LOL * (psst, even weapon experts aren't that much more expertizededed in the field. since we don't exactly walk around getting into sword fights or anything anymore. so there are plenty of differing interpretations on texts from the times. they ultimately end up at the fact that fighting for your life requires a lot of improvisational skills and any technique that gets you out of the fight alive was the correct technique at the time. so, if spiky spear work, then spiky spear good weapon.) : - )
Even if the spiky spear can't be used to hunt megafauna (via being thrown at said critters), it could still effectively catch fish, eels, snakes and small ground animals...and if you're holding the spear, it'd be a good way of using the Great White Shark style of hunting (bite the prey, let it run off and collapse from blood loss, you follow it at your leisure and carve up the prey when you arrive at it)
Just found your channel and busy catching up, so wanted to pop in to comment, like, etc. Before time is up, for the sake of the algorithm. Praise be to her, may she be merciful!
Your statement about dichotomies between deities reminds me of some gods I created in my early twenties for a worldbuilding project. A Sun God named Secra and a Moon Goddess named Natna. They were engaged in an eternal dance and throughout their dance they held between them a third divine entity, not a god, between them. Sort of a divine/cosmological artifact named Tetra. Tetra was the representation of the World and its form was ever-shifting dynamically with the tempo of Secra and Natna's eternal dance. You know how pre-scientific peoples conceived of the world not through literal top-down maps that focused on accuracy, but through artistic/spiritual conceptions like the World Tree in Norse mythology? Tetra was supposed to be that type of representation; The world as thought of by the worshippers of the Sun and Moon, was an emergent abberation of the substrate of reality brought on my the movements of Secra and Natna, whose dance was a purposeful act to bring about the living world of Tetra.
I am curious, since your main character will live through basically the entirety of (historically) moderrn human history, with she have to live put every day of every week and so on thought time, or will time sort of skip ahead? Cus if its the first option, i think that can open up some very interesting story and philosophical points (love the artwork btw)
At least in terms of longer video’s like this one that don’t need to be as attention-grabbing, fast-paced or you know, UA-cam Shorty?, it would be nice if you could still maintain the style shown in the first half of the video. Keep up the good work!
I think it could be fun to mess with dichotomies in religion. I had a "fever" dream of sorts years ago where there were two gods of Life. But one was the god of Life and Fire, while the other was the god of Life and Death. There was no brilliant scheme behind this, as it was born of dream logic, but I feel like multiple gods of the same domain is something we don't see often in fiction but can be much more interesting. Ares and Athena and to a lesser extent Aphrodite are the only one I can think of right now, but I'm not a dietician.
I like having the shorts in one place! So the comic is set 48000 years ago right, but I found recently that light skin evolved 28000-22000 years ago. Shouldn't all your characters have dark skin?
Might have to come up with an explanation unfortunately, it might come off as whitewashing to some people. Maybe they have a mutation that didn't survive to the modem day.
Or I suppose just darkening them is easy enough. I know that the "prehistoric people = white" trope is very negative and persists in art, scientific literature, and religious imagery. I don't want your project to be the site of any drama
You're going deep into prehistory here, I mean if I remember dogs were domesticated like 30kya ago. ... I wonder how your main character would react to a pet dog? Would she be afraid of it? Mystified by the idea? For that matter would she consider farming a terrible mistake? For that matter I think she predates alcohol? I wonder how she would regard a good stiff drink (not like a bud light or something, I mean a good drink, maybe a cider?).
I'm not sure any hominid predates alcohol. Don't a lot of animals eat fermented fruit?
@@ASpaceOstrich yes but I'm thinking of intentionally creating alcoholic drinks, of which the earliest evidence I'm aware of is only about 7000 or so years ago. Those drinks would be stronger than fermented fruit.
I love new content! Your willingness to embrace the difficulties of a palaeolithic setting have given my the confidence I need to fully embrace the bronze age setting I've always wanted to create!
Aaand all caught up. Gotta love the Creative's "Hey that's a lot like the thing I was gonna do.. I suck, this idea is now dead to me. Someone is already doing it better." gut reaction when you come across similar ideas. Lol, which was the journey I just went on. But then thinking about it, there were enough differences that it wouldn't feel the same. So. Great minds and all that!
Your deep dive into this type of stuff is absolutely up my alley. Having researched similar things before finding your channel. So the work you've put in has saved me a LOT of time, and your ideas have inspired and reinvigorated me. Specially aesthetic wise and visually. Since I'm more of a writer than an artist. Clothing was already a big thing I was starting with, but I hadn't thought about the details as much. Or I was too focused on what they would be like at a particular point in the timeline that I hadn't thought about differences they might have had in the Paleo/Neolithic eras.
Weapons however I'm a bit more passionate about, but only to an enthusiast's level. Not an expert*. But when I saw the spear you were talking about, then subsequently changed, I hadn't thought it was that bad. Perfectly optimal? Probably not, but plenty of personal and cultural reasons why humans did less than optimal things. Even beyond the almost infinite non-practical reasons like religious, superstitious, something to do around the fire, etc. Slipping in a few bone fragments or sharpened sticks into the wrapping wouldn't have thrown the weight off THAT much.
1: If it was more of a melee spear then getting used to the weight is no problem. 2: If it's a throwing spear, again, they'd get used to it. They would have to with any spear really, stone isn't as consistent as metal is anyway. So surely they'd have picked up new spears and felt the difference, without any adornment. 3: If a weapon works for a people, then they aren't as likely to try changing it. just for the sake of being more efficient? Nah. Maybe it would be 5% more effective, but maybe it wouldn't be and I wasted a spear on food that could keep me alive.
Those extra spines and spikes could also mean that a near miss causes at least a little damage, which means a blood trail to follow. Or a little damage on an enemy, plenty of weapon techniques that aren't kill shots. As long as it isn't ridiculous, although, even then I could still see arguments to be made, then if it works for them, it works for them. And yes, just through sheer amount of spears made and iteration you'll come to a more balanced and efficient weapon. But these people are also from much earlier, with no written history or wide interconnectedness with other humans that could teach them. Obviously it's up to you, but just wanted to give an alternate opinion in case you need some ammo to justify keeping the thing you like more. LOL
* (psst, even weapon experts aren't that much more expertizededed in the field. since we don't exactly walk around getting into sword fights or anything anymore. so there are plenty of differing interpretations on texts from the times. they ultimately end up at the fact that fighting for your life requires a lot of improvisational skills and any technique that gets you out of the fight alive was the correct technique at the time. so, if spiky spear work, then spiky spear good weapon.) : - )
What are humans if not flightless crows? XD
Love it!
Even if the spiky spear can't be used to hunt megafauna (via being thrown at said critters), it could still effectively catch fish, eels, snakes and small ground animals...and if you're holding the spear, it'd be a good way of using the Great White Shark style of hunting (bite the prey, let it run off and collapse from blood loss, you follow it at your leisure and carve up the prey when you arrive at it)
Just found your channel and busy catching up, so wanted to pop in to comment, like, etc. Before time is up, for the sake of the algorithm. Praise be to her, may she be merciful!
Love your content! Glad I stumbled upon this series. Praise the algorithm god!
I made a big critique of your sound on previous videos. There are some small things here and there, but-overall-this video sounds great 👍
This is another great video. Kudos!!
My question is how come tala and her family all have white hair? Is it genetic or just a stylistic choice?
Your statement about dichotomies between deities reminds me of some gods I created in my early twenties for a worldbuilding project.
A Sun God named Secra and a Moon Goddess named Natna. They were engaged in an eternal dance and throughout their dance they held between them a third divine entity, not a god, between them. Sort of a divine/cosmological artifact named Tetra. Tetra was the representation of the World and its form was ever-shifting dynamically with the tempo of Secra and Natna's eternal dance. You know how pre-scientific peoples conceived of the world not through literal top-down maps that focused on accuracy, but through artistic/spiritual conceptions like the World Tree in Norse mythology? Tetra was supposed to be that type of representation; The world as thought of by the worshippers of the Sun and Moon, was an emergent abberation of the substrate of reality brought on my the movements of Secra and Natna, whose dance was a purposeful act to bring about the living world of Tetra.
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Blessed day
I am curious, since your main character will live through basically the entirety of (historically) moderrn human history, with she have to live put every day of every week and so on thought time, or will time sort of skip ahead? Cus if its the first option, i think that can open up some very interesting story and philosophical points (love the artwork btw)
What's funny is that there are cities older than agriculture
At least in terms of longer video’s like this one that don’t need to be as attention-grabbing, fast-paced or you know, UA-cam Shorty?, it would be nice if you could still maintain the style shown in the first half of the video. Keep up the good work!
I think it could be fun to mess with dichotomies in religion. I had a "fever" dream of sorts years ago where there were two gods of Life. But one was the god of Life and Fire, while the other was the god of Life and Death. There was no brilliant scheme behind this, as it was born of dream logic, but I feel like multiple gods of the same domain is something we don't see often in fiction but can be much more interesting. Ares and Athena and to a lesser extent Aphrodite are the only one I can think of right now, but I'm not a dietician.
When the close up of the picutre of Speaker without the beard popped up, he looked like Einstein.
Watching this later!!
Yoooooooooooo new upload! 😃
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Love ur vids keep it up ❤
This is fun.
Amazing 🤩
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NEW HANNAHSMTH VIDEO LES GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Hannah just dropped wooooo
Nice
7:02 Okay, very important question then, does she, like basically every lactose intolerant person I know, still eat dairy?
I like having the shorts in one place! So the comic is set 48000 years ago right, but I found recently that light skin evolved 28000-22000 years ago. Shouldn't all your characters have dark skin?
Realistically yes! I unfortunately didn't know that before designing them ^^"
Might have to come up with an explanation unfortunately, it might come off as whitewashing to some people. Maybe they have a mutation that didn't survive to the modem day.
Or I suppose just darkening them is easy enough. I know that the "prehistoric people = white" trope is very negative and persists in art, scientific literature, and religious imagery. I don't want your project to be the site of any drama
@@jivejunior8753 let her do what she wants bruh at the end of the day this is still a fictional story
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