@@Vultus873 I'm somewhat hesitant to put anything as personal as this project out there into the void of the internet. Since people seem interested though I might reconsider that.
@@voidjellies Pleeeease!!! I was about to write to OP suggesting a speculative evo world seeded (lol) with vegetal life only. See them evolving to occupy the animal kingdom niche would be awesome!
“It’s pointless to create a 4 page backstory on a plant that is only going to appear in your story once” Tolkien would like to have a word with the you
@@CreoSolus the flora and fauna of the show are incredible. Its a show worth watching more than once because of the environmental design alone. I'm rewatching with some friends at the moment and I keep seeing new details in the environment that bring more life and variety into the story each time I see it. everything is show and not tell so its easy to overlook some of the finer details the first time around. The show creates an entirely believable and alien ecosystem that feels like it could really exist in a way I cant really compare to any other media out there.
Going in depth on plant properties, folklore, and cultivation has always been one of the main ways i start building up worlds. The environment makes civilizations, and plants are an important part of that environment. In my opinion they don’t have to be relevant or mentioned, but they give me a framework for how a community evolved into what it is now.
Totally agree you don't always explain everything to the audience, but u as the world building should adequately understand the workings of your own world.
Not only making alien-ish plants is fun, it also can make stories a little more interesting since most of a planet (at least our planet) is covered in plants, and makes a landscape.
Before 2022 can be used as a filter to help scrub out the AI nonsense, also some conceptual things around plants can help too for design such as plants in hotter/dryer environments having smaller leaves or those in rainy environments being more waxy. There are exceptions of course but in designing concepts these ideas can be helpful in addition to awesome botany books. Less relevant to fantasy but following some base rules real plants follow with regards to physics & how they store water/nutrients can make them seem more believable/relatable. Awesome video!
@@CreoSolusJust commenting to say that the art app Cara has a strict anti-AI policy and doesn't allow AI images to be posted in their app, if you're looking for a completely AI free space to look for references. The community is not very big yet and I wouldn’t rely on the search function as of yet either but if you just hop in to casually scroll around you can find art and pictures that interest you and build up a home page that allows you to almost always find something inspiring. That's the way it is for me, anyway. These two things, coupled with the friendly community, gave even little me the courage to start posting my own photos (: Sorry for rambling, I just can't seem to leave anything unexplained haha
Ant plants deserve a mention. There are over 100 different genera of "myrmecophytes", or plants that host ant colonies within their stems. Very few of them are related, meaning that they each developed the ant-hosting traits separately. Many species have nectaries on the leaves that will feed their buggy guards, while the ants keep the plant safe from predation. Could be a very cool idea to adapt into fantasy! In my own world I have a plant called Beastbane. It's a neotenal herb that only ever grows two leaves, coating the ground like a moss. It has intense animal repellent properties and is magically engineered to sedate a dead god inside the planet 😊
I am ashamed to admit that even though 'The Plants' are the main opposing force (not necessarily evil) in a game I'm working on, I've sorta massively failed on making them super plantlike. Currently there's just a few that are the equivalent of rather plant-y alien/elf like creatures, which is admittedly pretty mid. Excellent timing on the video haha, my current task was to make a unkillable "tutorial boss" simply called the Giga Flower, and I have much more places to look than googling... well, 'flowers.'
You know the Arum family? Arum maculatum is an almost unkillable weed because of the deep tubers and rhizomes. Like many of the family it contains raphides, needle-like crystals of calcium oxalate that are spring-loaded in the cell so when the cell is broken they are fired out into the tissues of the mouth. It also contains toxic resins to further irritate the creature trying to eat it. It is related to the plant with the largest flower - the Titan arum. Some members of the family (like skunk cabbage) can raise their temperature 35°C above ambient temperature to melt snow or volatilise attractant smells from the flowers.
I HAVE MORE FUN PLANT ENEMIES FOR YOU!!!! My ick in fantasy is when the only plant thing is Vine. Vine spell to move or attack or grow. Nah. Vines are cool but there’s so much cool stuff. Carnivorous plants~~~~ Okay they’re animal like I guess but hear me out. I made a whole dnd spell once with just different carnivorous plant options. You’ve got the bladderwort which has tiny bladders with negative pressure and trigger hairs that open in a fraction of a second and viciously suck in microfauna. Sundews are sticky traps that slowly curl around you once you’re in. Venus fly traps you know. Pitfall traps (Nepenthes, Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and others) are so effective they’ve evolved multiple times over. Like crabs. There’s a huge group of proto-carnivorous plants. Just read through the wiki page of that. It means like a plant is not fully carnivorous but kinda. Just read the wiki, this comment is too long. Some proto-carnivorous only kill animals but don’t digest. More on that next section. I’ve actually heard it hypothesized that cypress knees evolved to trip dinosaurs so the dinos would die and fertilize them (although I don’t believe that fully) Symbiosis with animals~~ Maybe this is cheating but there’s cool symbiotic relationships plants have that could be good enemies. There’s a species of Nepenthes (pitcher vine) that shaped itself into a toilet bowl shape for a species of shrew. The plant makes sugar (low effort for plant to make but high value for animal) with laxatives that makes the shrew poop and provides the Neps with nutrients like nitrogen (low value for animal to give but high value for plant). There’s two species of sundew (maybe not sundew, might be convergent evolution - fact check me) that each coevolved with two species of assassin bug. The assassin bug lives safely on the plant but other bugs who come by get trapped on the plant’s sticky secretions. The assassin bug eats the bugs and poops onto the plant, fertilizing it. Imagine being that poor bug, trapped and seeing a massive assassin bug coming to eat you.
Sorry new comment my old one got too long Plant on plant violence ~~ Plants do nasty things to each other. Strangler figs grow up trees, encircle them, take over their light, and ultimately kill the tree inside. The end result is beautiful draping tree with a hollow inside. Vines basically cheat by climbing trees (who do hard work of building trunks) straight up to the light. Some plants parasitize other plants like mistletoe. Others tap into mycorrhizae networks and take nutrients without giving anything back. There’s some beautiful all white flowers in the PNW that do that. The giant corpse flower is parasitic as well. Fire ecosystems ~~ A lot of plants in ecosystems that regularly burn not only are adapted to burn but can actually HELP SPREAD THE FIRE. I’m in Florida and our wiregrass species have phenols (iirc) that makes the leaves burn while green and alive. Our pine trees drop needles that help spread fire. They do this because the fires keep competing plants away. Stinky plants ~~ The arum family does this a lot (thanks pattheplanter for bringing up). The flowers smell like rotting flesh to attract flies as pollinators. Some mushrooms do this too like the stinkhorn family. Iirc, one species of flower actually gets the nutrients from the maggots that the flies lay (the maggots die because there’s no actual rotting flesh). Skunk cabbage (the hot one) is a personal fav. Famously, that “cut grass” smell is actually a pheromone the plants release to attract wasps - they think they’re getting eaten! And some cucada release reproductive bug pheronomomes to attract beetles when they want to be pollinated. The big with with plants is they move slower so a lot of their violence either happens slowly or with a trap method I’ll leave more comments if I think of more sorry lol Edit: Sensitive mimosa plants move their leaves and curl them inward when disturbed! Scientists are studying them because it looks like they learn - when repeatedly exposed to the same stimulus they stop reacting but when exposed to a new one they react again. Some plants turn their leaves up at night (oxalis, prayer plants) but idk why they do.
GBIF has millions of images online including the rarest and weirdest plants - all properly identified. Some only have herbarium specimens but many have photos of the live plants. African Plants A Photo Guide has a great selection as well, though much smaller. You want weird start with the parasites like Hydnora. For strange flowers, I love the Ceropegias and stapeliads like Boucerosia, Huernia, Stapelia, Rhytidocaulon, Orbea, Edithcolea and other asclepiads in the Apocynaceae family - Matelea, Hoya, Asclepias.
Personally I make sure my work involves plants as long as it's not characters I draw and write about plants how they interact with the world and how they interact with each other. For example: A magnificent tree in the middle of a plateu atop a mountain who's main purpose is to guard the petrified corpses of the people who chose this end and the tree has a symbiotic relationship with the grass on its roots that extract the sous trapped within the corpses collecting the memories of the souls and release the soul as a waste allowing the soul to return into the cycle of everything without the burden of its previous memories. The tree offers protection to the grass and in turn the grass offers the excess memories to feed the tree. And very rarely the grass will pop out a tiny flower that can be turned into a child for those who want to have a child. The next one is a forest of different trees that have their own sentience but are just basically trees with no way to move or see. Their existence is solely to offer themselves to the lonely god of that mountain as either literal firewood or emotional support and in turn the lonely god nurtures their growth and be their mediator. They have their own culture, thoughts and emotions, but without the god they have no way of expressing it to either outsiders or each other most of the time. The god has no way of affecting them in any way since they don't belong to this god and are the creations of another god.
I'm currently taking part in a gamejam as the artist and today I want to take on the plants of the gaming level. So finding this on my homepage was very well timed. Thank you for the inspiration and putting me into the right mindset
Especially for fantasy worlds, I find including specific real world plants to be really helpful and fun for making it feel real and atmospheric. Not only does learning what grows in certain areas/why help you make your own plants, but all of the folklore and relationships between plants is so interesting! For example, here in Australia the waratah flower is said to have become red when a wonga pigeon went looking for her mate and got caught by a hawk, who made her bleed all over the white waratahs. If you look at endemic plants there are some pretty crazy things, too. It disappoints me a little when some authors get so into the worldbuilding and then forget about plants, so I'm happy to see this video and read the comments. Plants and ecology are so cool :)) Thanks for the video!
I loved the video! I've recently started getting really into plants and botany and have been wanting to put them in a fantasy world or story, so it's really inspirational to see others share that love of plants. Truly a realm of untouched possibilities for worldbuilding. In the case of video length, I think it's all about what you think works best for what you're trying to communicate, so do what feels natural for you! You're doing great :D
This video is so helpful! I'm making a post apocalypse story where plants are Really Important, but I've grown up drawing people, so I've been having a hard time figuring out where to start on designing and drawing them. The suggestion of plant books was really eye-opening!
Pelargoniums are pretty dope plants, for example P. tetragonum, square stems with sparse hairy leaves followed by big flowers, stems can grow meters long but very fragile. P. gibbosum have yellow flowers that smell like banana in dusk and dawn but scentless the rest of the day and night. Silvery foliage that smell like mild soap, the stems are thick and super thin, they are called gout pelargoniums for that reason. P. cotyledonis grow like bonsai trees without really training them, really pretty foliage as well. P. mirabile also falls into bonsai territory. P. bowkeri have really cool flowers that look like they were bred for generations by human hand but alas no, it's a wild species just like the rest of them. P. quinquelobatum is close to impossible to get color accurate pictures of, they look blue, pink, white, yellow and purple just between two pictures taken at the same time in a series.
I looooove this video! I'm totaly into plants, leeches and fungi! I love the patterns, the colors the shapes... it's another world! And bringing a story arround that world is so amazing. It's just I didn't find much artist doing so. There are some and still there is so much potential from plants, leeches and fungi geting lost because it's so redundant for many people...
Absolutely agree. I should dive deeper into the world of fungi. There are so many amazing species out there. I'd love to design something with bio-luminescent
Oh yeees ! Fungi is just so crazy! How they live and procreate and the looks are fantastic hahha a recomendation for the point in the video about history and legens. I've read the book Gathering moss from Robin Wall Kimmerer. There she describes differt moss typs from a botanical perspective and from historical and mythical side from the native tribes from North America. It's just such a lovely reading that totaly get the creative mood swinging hahaha also Häckel and his botanical illustrations! There you can see how other worldly plants can look like! Totaly material for creating new fantasy plants.
Oh yeah, genetically modified mini ecosyetems that are used as filters for helmets. Closed systems that thrive in the dark, thin, knight like face visors across helmets of mercanaries, police forces, and military personnel across the milky way. They utilize the carbon dioxide produces by the wearer and the moisture of their breath to produce air. All dead or dying fungus filtration systems are ejected into the wearers mouth for relative sustenance, continuing the closed system for awhile. It is HIGHLY recommended not to panic or hyperventilate with the filtration systems in place, you will only lose your oxygen faster as it takes a bit to produce oxygen. Breath deep and slowly to maximize air usage and allow the filtration systems to continue to produce oxygen in vaccums, high or low pressure environments, or extremely dangerous exterior conditions where oxygen may not be available or utilizing oxygen tanks is inefficient and cumbersome. (Such as heavy warfare or extremely hot, cold, or radioactive environments where an oxygen tank may burst, be damaged or comprised in some way.) If you must overwork with the filtration system, make sure it is only one way so you can breath the oxygen you provide to the filters. The filters will filter heavy chemical agents, nerve agents, gasses, liquids, dirt and dust at the cost of producing oxygen slower. Use the deep breath techniques in these situations. If there is no need to filter out any sort of breathable atmosphere, you may close the filtration vents with a button on the helmets temple. Then, you may breath freely as if wearing nothing. Make sure to clean the mask once every 35 years to prevent mold.
I wasn't even thinking about plants for my stories except for maybe one or two instances where they'd be relevant to a spell or something. Now I want to explore a little more botany, which is not something I ever thought I'd say again after college outside of brewing tea.
what a gem to find in my recommed! I love botany and world building both. I've thought a bit about what real life plants might be in my worlds, but now I want to try creating my own! Luckily I have plenty of books I can use as a refrence!
I have a fantasy world that's inspired by the 3 kingdoms of biology (animalia, plantae, fungi), this is so helpful for providing me with many cool plants ideas for the character designs. I've been working on the Plantaeans recently, and one of the faction is basically the 12 knights of the round table but each are different types of flowers
@@CreoSolus inspiration could come from anything. This world orginally came from some sketches i drew when i get bored in biology class. Now it has become my creative testing ground, making a bunch of cool and wacky characters i've never even thought off before
i hate character design, mainly when characters are people, but animals are different thing! I love designing creatures thats so much fun! Plant are also really fun to do i love making fantasy forests and plains magicaly alive. Thank you! AMAZING VIDEO
@@CreoSolus dinosaurs are always a fun draw. now thinking about it, you could probably try adding paleontology to your world. dinosaurs, plants and whatnot. but the real interesting part is how the fantasy civilization perceives the past vs the actual past. just like how we thought dinosaurs were these scary lizards, but most likely are just big birds. for example looking at a hippo skull, you will find many beastly interpretations outside of what we know a hippo is. it would be interesting to apply this to creature drawings
for the SlipperWorts I would recommend against using the word "parasitic" to describe their relationship to bones (as this implies that the SlipperWorts infiltrate a host and feed on their bones while the host is alive). Instead, describing it as "the bones having a catalytic relationship with the blooming of the SlipperWorts". (parasitism requires the parasite to be deriving the nutrients/resources from a living host
As an artist plant and nature love as well as a writer this only furthers what I've already had planned for my story. I 100% agree that people should include plants into their stories more often, thank you for making this video ❤
Not only do I appreciate the topic of this video, I am pleased that it is short and to the point. Lately, I’ve stopped clicking on videos longer than 10 minutes because they’re nearly always filled with filler instead of actual information. This video, by contrast, is just right: intro, a few good points and instructions, examples, and a few words in closing. Thank you for not wasting my time!
Something I also wanna add to the discussion are subspecies of plants -- that is taking a simple plant and seeing how many variants you can make of it while still keeping it in the same "family". Best example are the silverswords: there are 3 species of silverswords but there's roughly over 20 SUBspecies recorded that vary from stalk plants to shrubs to actual trees to a literal vine! Yet all of them have similar blooms and or leaf shapes and tend to grow at high altitudes. It'd be interesting to see more variants of important plants in a series that seem to look wildly different at a glance!
i recently tired some fantasy botany like this, it's pretty fun making a plant basically it's own little character in a way i think a fun way to think up designs and ideas is to have a theme for them, for example, 1 plant i made was a plant that represents heart break, so i made the leaves look like broken hearts, and had it have poisonous barbs that won't kill you but will give you the same ache like you are heart broken then that leads to MORE fun when you think of how it's used or what animals could eat such a plant
I've been working on a world called 'Aludel', which is a post-post apocalypse world radically transformed by the alchemy of dragons trying to perfect themselves and the world at large into pieces of art. It is now 100,000 years into the future and all the life forms that were once made to be statements of art now have to scrounge for bio-accumulating alchemical compounds. I've been at a loss for how to incorporate plants into them, but this video gives me the confidence to commit to making mutant plantlife. Heck, plants are much more accepting of mutations, so they should, really, be the strangest of them all. Thank you so much for making this video.
Ooh I hve something similar iin mind. Trying to build and evolve an ecosystem from living works of art (and in my case, art made by an alien intelligence with a wild array of senses and especially a natural awareness of inner biological processes and further complications, which is also tempered with by other, somewhat naive intelligence including humans, implying the possibility that the creator might get inspired by human input, but me being wary of taking the bait to drop literal dragons because of this, and adding to this the complexities of having this world in a very different cosmic environment... Sorry for the rant lol) has proven to be a challenge indeed. I'd be interested in whatever you feel like uploading in the future
Lovely video! One of my favorite plants has got to be the passionflower, with its wild violet tendrils, mesmerizing rings, and distinctive towering pistil. Plus, its fruit is delicious! 😋
I am really glad someone made a video like this! When I was making my story idea years ago, I wanted there to be a substance that was highly addictive substance that carried some of the narrative, but was also thematic to the story's themes and motifs. I settled on something called Sickle Root! Much of the story revolves around magic that uses vitality and blood, and so sickle root was a root that resembled a sickle blood cell as seen with sickle cell anemia. This video reminded me I should really incorporate even more plants and environmental phenomena!
Even me as a biology student me and my pears tend to forget(or atleast not care really) the importance of plants in any ecosystem. I would personally find them boring. It was when my professor discussed about root systems and how certain plant roots can effect their surrounding such as certain trees destroying cement with their large roots, That there really peaked my interest. So my advice to anyone in my shoes is to just go and find out the cool things you like about plants
The art and concepts are so cool and I love your intro animation! Back in middle school I would create/design a lot of complex ecosystems and species for my stories, but my current work doesn’t have enough of it. Now I’m inspired to add more botany to my story again!
I'm in the realm between worldbuilders, readers, gamers, devloggers and worldview discussions. I love everything and do nothing proper. When it comes to plants then I think the best thing I can contribute to your question is a little story of mine. When was on my bachelor in electrical engineering I had to look stuff up for a project of mine. I have no clue anymore, what the project was. I only remember it was not related at all. And that is when I stumbled upon a curious book on google books. It is called plants and water. I found that an interesting combination. Who do plants actually handle water. I didn't immediately pursue the book, as I had studying to do and the book has about 1000 pages. But after school finished, I went through my to buy book list and saw it again. That's when I bought it. The book is setup in a way that each chapter is written by a different scientist. Because of that, not only the difficulty but even the language differs in each chapter. I'm Swiss, so both the German and English chapter didn't pose any problem to me. After reading about 700 pages I needed a break and I'm still in that break. When I go about continue to read that book, I will be greeted by one chapter that is in French. That will be a bit difficult for me, as I forgot most of my school French. Another thing that is interesting about that book is that it was published in 1956. So many things that they found difficult to calculate back then is a small python script of today. But they still found out many things about how the chemistry in cells works, how the roots interact with the soil and the water in the soil and how water evaporates on the leaves. I think it is one of the more memorable spur of the moment buys and I would love to make a game at one point in the future, where you have to manage the growth of a plant based on that book. But I have many other ideas which I want to do before that.
@@CreoSolus Any book is fascinating, if someone who is interested in talks about it. :) What are the 2 languages you speak? If you want to call Swissgerman and German different languages then those are two. This is actually something which linguists disagree on. Some say it is the same language, just different dialects and others say they are different languages. And then there is French which I had a conversation level 10 years ago, but not anymore. If I have enough time and easy enough sentences then I can still understand it somewhat. But my French speaking skills are terrible and if something is a mildly complicated French then I struggle a lot. So in a way I also only speak 2 languages.
I'm not, like, a huge plant person. But I do love when the flora in a book is put to use. All of the botany books I have are on medicinal/edible herbs. I've got a book on trees, but the one I actually use is all about the edible and medicinal wild plants of North America. Useful in the real world, and also for your books. Like did you know that pricky pear was applied underneath bandages to promote healing? it was also used to increase milk in new mothers, sooth sores on people and animals, soothing arthritis, to reduce fevers, to treat dysentery.
yeeeessssss love this. plants are pretty integral to my main fantasy story as it follows 2 botanists/naturalists and the antagonist is (in a massive oversimplification) a disease which starts by infecting plants. the whole reason it's botanists "saving the world" is just because they were the first ones to care about a disease affecting only birch trees (at first)
around 20 minutes seems like a good video to me. also, as a (self proclaimed) plant enthusiast and writer, I'm VERY grateful for ideas on how to incorporate more plants into my books besides a character being able to control them
[[Edited: Corrected for better understanding (Portuguese is my primary language)]] I will add plants to the worldbuilding of my book, but I'm still learning how to fit them harmonically. I was almost info dumping my future readers, but I would rather write the characters interacting with them and just casually talking about as if it were popular knowledge/common sense in the world. Scavengers Reign does that really well. Thanks for the video!
I highly recommend Subnautica for a well-thought underwater flora. The way devs tied it to the gameplay is amazing, I've scanned and read all of the info entries in that game which I almost never do. They even have quite a few symbiotic plants and fish pairs existing in tandem. And just generally speaking I appreciate their pretty cohesive ecosystem. Like I'll scan a boring-looking plant knowing there's most likely no recipe using it, and I wouldn't even use it for my underwater garden, but then the data entry will say it's a staple food for local fauna, and thus very important even if it's completely useless to me. Stuff like this really puts things into perspective! And it's true for real life, too. Really can't recommend Subnautica enough, there's a lot effort that went into their big plant catalogue :)
the Philippines has a lot of legends about origins of plants. Most popular is the legend of pineapples as it is taught in schools. A pineapple was born because of a kid who refuses to use her eyes to find the items her mom asked her to look for, hence the pineapple having a lot of eyes. That kid turned into a pineapple. There are different variations of the story, there's others who say the mother wished the kid had more eyes to use out of frustration which she regretted the morning the kid turned into a pineapple while others say the kid is punished by a diwata(fairy spirit) for her refusal to help her mother. There are a lot of legends out there and my favorite is the legend of Waling-Waling, a type of orchid. It's because I like orchids and the story is also similar to Rapunzel. you can draw out inspiration from existing cultural legends from around the world to incorporate in your story. They are pretty cool.
I’m a writer and YT recommended this and I thought it was gonna be writing advice and I was so here for it like “YES. TELL ME HOW TO INCORPORATE PLANTS STRAIGHT UP INTO MY STORY. ARE THEY SENTIENT?!” 😂😅 This makes more sense
An aunt once told me to beware the plant in her living room during a short stay at her place. She said it's sap could take away my voice if it got into my mouth or a cut. I have never confirmed the species or the potential of poisons that plants can possess, after all she was likely just trying to prevent a bored child from damaging her property. Regardless of the truth, i still maintain the awe and respect of plant life that her warning commanded from me.
The reason why you aren't seeing character artists take an interest in plants is literally just because they are character artists who are focused on characters. Once you get to the environmental and concept artists both in the 2D and 3D space y'all be a lot happier! :D
I would just like to mention, I have only found out about your channel today and after looking at many different more popular channels I think I've found what I've been looking for with yours. When you talked about the hard / soft magic in your other video I immediately subscribed to your channel with notifications on. I completely agree and most other channels I've seen really try to "stick to the rules" I guess whilst I feel like you encourage the creative freedom someone can have while writing compared to others who make these kinds of videos. I really wish you the best with your youtube channel as well as your own stories and I'm honestly surprised you aren't more popular. I've always been told in my life that I have a talent for writing or just creative work, however I never felt encouraged to pursue anything to do with it until recently when I've decided to start writing my own books and learn how to draw. A lot of self-doubt comes into play, especially when I feel I've written my world into a dead-end and have to back-track the world building again. Videos like these that talk about world building and story writing tend to be a big help with getting out of the self-doubt mindset and I'm very thankful for it. And one more thing: please, please, please keep making content. I'm not familiar with editing or anything like that and I'm certain you put a lot of effort into your videos, but I genuinely think your channel has so much potential to grow and help others like me.
Thank you for your wonderful comment. Absolutely, creativity shouldn't be limited. Keep aiming for your dreams, wish you the best of luck with your writing. Self doubt is a natural part of any artist and somedays it's a lot stronger than others.
loved this video! I struggle alot with drawing any sort of vegetation, and I found this dive through getting reference, designing and implementing plants in worlds really intriguing. will be looking out for plant related books the next time I enter a library.
I am making my own homebrew world for a tabletop game, and its honestly so fun, even if i never manage to gather a group to play it! While it works as a good creative challenge, both while designing and writing, it gets sort of distracting to look for inspiration online! I would never have thought to look through my bookcase if not for you, and lo and behold, i managed to find an old book about botany from 1910 from an old relative! The illustrations are fantastic, and it has short descriptions about its parts! Thank you for the inspiration and tips! ☺
It's become somewhat popular recently, but the Sandbox tree is a, well, tree, that has 'fruits' growing on it's trunk that explode and shoot the seeds out at genuinely dangerous speeds.
Outside of second hand bookstores, check out your local libraries for plant books!! I bet that local libraries have sections for them, and if not you can always request plant books!!
Thank you for this video, after it I immediately grabbed album and pencil, very inspiring. I honestly never thought about plants in my stories! That was a huge oversight
This was super helpful for me. Especially the way you explained how plants can help a series develop. My series is heavily inspired by southeast asian mythology (specifically parts of tibet and Malaysia.) with some things in my world offering a twist on the creatures I read about. Your video made me look at a bunch of tibetan wildflowers for inspiration and theyre all so gorgeous. I'll definitely think of a way to add some of them into the story Im developing. Thank you so much. I will definitely be adding more flora to the series im working on.
A work of art that heavily features plants as an integral part of the narration is the game Elden Ring. It may not seem so at first glance, but there are different plants, flowers and such for every area of the game, and even every magical power. There are flowers for the lightning, for certain demigods, flowers for the frenzied flame, even flowers that only bloom on corpses of those who died fighting dragons. The best part is that this applies for the fauna as well, with butterflies, for example.
Literally perfect timing to get this recommended as I was just recently thinking about developing different plants / evolved plants since my story has a lot to do with insects
Your appreciation for plants is lovely, I was planning on getting more into the study of plants and bugs to hopefully give me ideas for my story, but at some point I completely forgot about the plants, this video popping up on my recommendation was a great reminder!
Quite wonderful ideas for such a great subject! We should educate ourselves about plants and at the same time nature in general is a constant and huge inspiration for artist and scientists!
"like all projects, start with reference". Why? That's exactly why people get stuck in the same style, same way of drawing things .... You'd be surprised to discover just how much originality can come out of drawing when you don't really know how you "should" be drawing it, and OPEN yourself up to the library of images you already have stocked in your mind from all your life AND draw how you'd want to Express that certain something instead of how it should look like. HUGE distinction if you are able to get it. That's when your Genius is actually activated, by navigating uncharted territory, as that's what Creation ultimately is. Connect to the current Artwork, allow it to bloom - pun intended - into whatever it wants (not in what you need it to be) and take Ownership of those Choices that don't have the outside validation of a reference photo.
i once had an idea for a world where human and plant swapped places in an event of some sort. It was interesting trying to figure out how the plants would show emotions and have more humanoid bodies while still keeping to the original thing, and you could imagine how freaky the scenery would’ve looked xD
I want to make a comic where the world having strange fictional biodiversity like in animation series scavengers reign, but it's quite hard to find refference and what fundamental should i learn for the first step, this video help me a lot❤
I think with all designing, in the beginning borrow a lot for already existing plants and forms in nature. And with time you can push the limits to what is believable or not.
If you are a university student, check if your university library has botanical books! and if they have "online copies" for download, since those mostly last until you delete them
I’m actually worldbuilding an island full of exotic plant life that is designed in very similar ways to the way that you come up with yours. Except instead of starting with a species as inspiration, I start with an adaptation. I’m not saying this is the only way to do it. I just want to vent some passion for a moment. So by adaptations, I mean things like carnivorous plants. In my story, there’s a vine that latches onto to a victim as a burr. The seed then sprouts roots that grow deep into the victim. The vine can not be killed through cutting the leafy vine itself. It will only resprout much like a Winter Ivy vine. You have to remove the entire taproot which often grows to be several feet long and wrapping itself around organs or crawling down a limb towards the digits. Eventually the animal will become immobile or dead as the vine either expands into joints or strangles the organs. As soon as the taproot senses that it has touched dirt, the vine will flower. The tower bison have skin so thick that these vines will have trouble breaking through. The bison will very often sniff and nibble at eachother looking for leach vines that they can snack on. When a vine is deep enough that the tower bison can sense the end drawing near, the bison will wander deep into the dark jungle far away from the herd. After the bison finally succumbs to the vine, it flowers. The bison carried the vine far away further spreading the parasitic flora and bringing the vine to a new gene pool preventing inbreeding.
Oh my goodness, plants that grow inside people terrify me. Can't imagine the pain of roots breaking tissue. You've got some awesome ideas, best of luck with your world building.
I'd be more than onboard for a full series. As for plants that aee really stuck in my mind, the Giant Hogsweed for its ease of maiming people comes to mind. So do mosses for me though, though unassuming they have a fascinating reproductive cycle and their soft touch and building of biomss stand out to me. I've always been more of a zoology biff though so ill plop out the required bit about sea lilliesand corrals not being plants at all although reeef building corrals have algae in them. Gianr Kelp isnt technically a plant either though it is a eukaryotic autotroph...if we are sticking to formal defintions for plants. Wonderful video!
omg this is exactly the content i wanted. also, for photo references of plants on the internet, i recommend inaturalist! it's meant to be a place to upload photos of wild species (plants, bugs, mushrooms, birds, whatever!) to identify them, which means it has a bunch of pictures sorted by species (or genus or whatever)
In my story, the name of a flower that only grows along the banks of one river became the name of the river itself, which influenced the names of settlements along the river bank, which led to different chiefs fighting for control over travel and trade on this stretch of the river, which led to one chief using the name of the river as an honorific meaning "ruler of the river" (other opposing chiefs copied him) and this honorific became a full on royal title when one of the chiefs beat all the others in a war. Then, in control of all of the settlements along the bank of the river, he divided the lands into large sections and referred to these sections with a word that comes from the rivers name. So this term of a body of land became synonymous with this large growing human settlement and eventually the new term was shortened into what is now the name of the nation and it became the name of the whole nation when a ruler from that settlement went on to conquer neighboring lands and bring them into his own
a good example of a fictional animal (I know this video is about plants, but I still think it's worth mentioning) is the yellow-spotted lizards of the book and movie HOLES. They aren't overly fantastical, so even though they're fictional, it's still easy to imagine a poisonous lizard that lives in the Southwestern United states
Have you seen camas flowers? They're pretty unique! If you aren't looking closely, they might blend in with other flowers in a grassy field, but they're actually in the Agavoideae subfamily so their anatomy is quite different from the plants around them! Plus some are purple and purple is the best color. (Just don't eat the white camas or you'll be super dead!)
@@CreoSolus No problem! They're interesting little flowers! Apparently, the purple kind were grown as a crop by native peoples near where my parent's house stands today. But there are no camas flowers there anymore... It really makes you wonder what colonization takes from a land and its people.
I love plants! They are so interesting and diverse. Very underrated too. I have a vintage orchid care book that i bought at a pub of all places! Its gorgeous
I wonder if the creator has seen scavenger's reign (its on both hbo and netflix)? it has incredible design for the plant life and the creators did an amazing job to use the flora and fauna design to create an incredibly unique scifi world that is all show and almost no tell.
Place plants into your world, and so much world building can grow from there. Agriculture, economics/trade, architecture, magic(sciences), culture, medicine, and much more has been affected by plants in real life. Even if it’s just a shade tree in the backyard of your protagonist’s childhood home. They don’t need to be front and center. But definitely consider your world’s flora. In a world of mine, there is a strain of genetically modified grains that are hardy enough to survive arctic regions. It doesn’t come up anywhere, but you can see fields of this grain as you travel the tundra, and it means there can be bread and porridge and domesticated livestock there as well.
You have a great point here, i'm designing a world but yea i have a bunch of creatures but very few plants, i need to get into it right now ! Plus i love plants and i'm recently getting into it so yea
I world popped into my head a couple months ago that was mostly about a squad of friends exploring this new world, specifically the non human part of the world. But for this, I needed to know a lot more about plants and animals, something I knew absolutely nothing about so I’ve been quite stuck on just the character development. Which sucks cause now it’s like Scavenger’s Reign on HBO without the nature, which is the beauty of the story.
your designs are so interesting i love the roots evolving to whip around and the self made terrarium and the idea of plants growing on bones these are such sick ideas im just ecstatic that i found a video about plant design
Avatar frontiers of Pandora have awesome plants too! I love reading their descriptions its so cool how they made them with the world and they have their own unique designs n abilities. There are electric plants and plants that help you jump. :3 theres also giant ones you can rest your Ikran on.
As a botanist creating an entire specevo alien world dominated by plants, this video is much appreciated.
Omg can you post any of it on your UA-cam channel?!
@@Vultus873 I'm somewhat hesitant to put anything as personal as this project out there into the void of the internet. Since people seem interested though I might reconsider that.
that sounds amazing, something u dont rlly see in the spec evo world. would love to learn more about your work :))
@@voidjellies Pleeeease!!! I was about to write to OP suggesting a speculative evo world seeded (lol) with vegetal life only. See them evolving to occupy the animal kingdom niche would be awesome!
Semiosis by sue burke does somthing similar!!! It’s a fun duology to read 😊
“It’s pointless to create a 4 page backstory on a plant that is only going to appear in your story once”
Tolkien would like to have a word with the you
Tolkien would create a completely continent with mythology and history. Just so a name of sword could reference it. XD
This is part of why I loved the Redrwall series so much.
The author goes into great deal about the plants, their uses in medicine and food
Now that's a book series I haven't heard in a while.
Scavenger's Reign (Netflix) has great worldbuilding that integrates plants and fungus with the wildlife in very creative ways.
I've wanted to watch this, I should set aside some time for it
@@CreoSolusYou'll love it, it's everything the vid is about.
Yes 100% watch it!!! It has such fantastic botanical art
@@CreoSolus the flora and fauna of the show are incredible. Its a show worth watching more than once because of the environmental design alone. I'm rewatching with some friends at the moment and I keep seeing new details in the environment that bring more life and variety into the story each time I see it. everything is show and not tell so its easy to overlook some of the finer details the first time around. The show creates an entirely believable and alien ecosystem that feels like it could really exist in a way I cant really compare to any other media out there.
Going in depth on plant properties, folklore, and cultivation has always been one of the main ways i start building up worlds. The environment makes civilizations, and plants are an important part of that environment. In my opinion they don’t have to be relevant or mentioned, but they give me a framework for how a community evolved into what it is now.
Totally agree you don't always explain everything to the audience, but u as the world building should adequately understand the workings of your own world.
Not only making alien-ish plants is fun, it also can make stories a little more interesting since most of a planet (at least our planet) is covered in plants, and makes a landscape.
Totally agree
Before 2022 can be used as a filter to help scrub out the AI nonsense, also some conceptual things around plants can help too for design such as plants in hotter/dryer environments having smaller leaves or those in rainy environments being more waxy. There are exceptions of course but in designing concepts these ideas can be helpful in addition to awesome botany books. Less relevant to fantasy but following some base rules real plants follow with regards to physics & how they store water/nutrients can make them seem more believable/relatable.
Awesome video!
Ahh thats clever. It should work really well with plants and landscaping. You seem well versed on the topic.
Thank you for the advice.
@@CreoSolusJust commenting to say that the art app Cara has a strict anti-AI policy and doesn't allow AI images to be posted in their app, if you're looking for a completely AI free space to look for references. The community is not very big yet and I wouldn’t rely on the search function as of yet either but if you just hop in to casually scroll around you can find art and pictures that interest you and build up a home page that allows you to almost always find something inspiring. That's the way it is for me, anyway. These two things, coupled with the friendly community, gave even little me the courage to start posting my own photos (:
Sorry for rambling, I just can't seem to leave anything unexplained haha
Ant plants deserve a mention. There are over 100 different genera of "myrmecophytes", or plants that host ant colonies within their stems. Very few of them are related, meaning that they each developed the ant-hosting traits separately. Many species have nectaries on the leaves that will feed their buggy guards, while the ants keep the plant safe from predation. Could be a very cool idea to adapt into fantasy!
In my own world I have a plant called Beastbane. It's a neotenal herb that only ever grows two leaves, coating the ground like a moss. It has intense animal repellent properties and is magically engineered to sedate a dead god inside the planet 😊
Fascinating, there are also a few plants that flowers are pollinated by ants. So they grow down facing the ground.
I am ashamed to admit that even though 'The Plants' are the main opposing force (not necessarily evil) in a game I'm working on, I've sorta massively failed on making them super plantlike. Currently there's just a few that are the equivalent of rather plant-y alien/elf like creatures, which is admittedly pretty mid. Excellent timing on the video haha, my current task was to make a unkillable "tutorial boss" simply called the Giga Flower, and I have much more places to look than googling... well, 'flowers.'
Glad i could help, good luck with your game it sounds interesting.
What engine are you using?
@@CreoSolus Godot! It's a Zelda 1 + turned based RPG, and is currently called Everything Breaks.
You know the Arum family? Arum maculatum is an almost unkillable weed because of the deep tubers and rhizomes. Like many of the family it contains raphides, needle-like crystals of calcium oxalate that are spring-loaded in the cell so when the cell is broken they are fired out into the tissues of the mouth. It also contains toxic resins to further irritate the creature trying to eat it. It is related to the plant with the largest flower - the Titan arum. Some members of the family (like skunk cabbage) can raise their temperature 35°C above ambient temperature to melt snow or volatilise attractant smells from the flowers.
I HAVE MORE FUN PLANT ENEMIES FOR YOU!!!! My ick in fantasy is when the only plant thing is Vine. Vine spell to move or attack or grow. Nah. Vines are cool but there’s so much cool stuff.
Carnivorous plants~~~~
Okay they’re animal like I guess but hear me out. I made a whole dnd spell once with just different carnivorous plant options. You’ve got the bladderwort which has tiny bladders with negative pressure and trigger hairs that open in a fraction of a second and viciously suck in microfauna. Sundews are sticky traps that slowly curl around you once you’re in. Venus fly traps you know. Pitfall traps (Nepenthes, Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and others) are so effective they’ve evolved multiple times over. Like crabs.
There’s a huge group of proto-carnivorous plants. Just read through the wiki page of that. It means like a plant is not fully carnivorous but kinda. Just read the wiki, this comment is too long. Some proto-carnivorous only kill animals but don’t digest. More on that next section. I’ve actually heard it hypothesized that cypress knees evolved to trip dinosaurs so the dinos would die and fertilize them (although I don’t believe that fully)
Symbiosis with animals~~
Maybe this is cheating but there’s cool symbiotic relationships plants have that could be good enemies. There’s a species of Nepenthes (pitcher vine) that shaped itself into a toilet bowl shape for a species of shrew. The plant makes sugar (low effort for plant to make but high value for animal) with laxatives that makes the shrew poop and provides the Neps with nutrients like nitrogen (low value for animal to give but high value for plant).
There’s two species of sundew (maybe not sundew, might be convergent evolution - fact check me) that each coevolved with two species of assassin bug. The assassin bug lives safely on the plant but other bugs who come by get trapped on the plant’s sticky secretions. The assassin bug eats the bugs and poops onto the plant, fertilizing it. Imagine being that poor bug, trapped and seeing a massive assassin bug coming to eat you.
Sorry new comment my old one got too long
Plant on plant violence ~~
Plants do nasty things to each other. Strangler figs grow up trees, encircle them, take over their light, and ultimately kill the tree inside. The end result is beautiful draping tree with a hollow inside. Vines basically cheat by climbing trees (who do hard work of building trunks) straight up to the light. Some plants parasitize other plants like mistletoe. Others tap into mycorrhizae networks and take nutrients without giving anything back. There’s some beautiful all white flowers in the PNW that do that. The giant corpse flower is parasitic as well.
Fire ecosystems ~~
A lot of plants in ecosystems that regularly burn not only are adapted to burn but can actually HELP SPREAD THE FIRE. I’m in Florida and our wiregrass species have phenols (iirc) that makes the leaves burn while green and alive. Our pine trees drop needles that help spread fire. They do this because the fires keep competing plants away.
Stinky plants ~~
The arum family does this a lot (thanks pattheplanter for bringing up). The flowers smell like rotting flesh to attract flies as pollinators. Some mushrooms do this too like the stinkhorn family. Iirc, one species of flower actually gets the nutrients from the maggots that the flies lay (the maggots die because there’s no actual rotting flesh). Skunk cabbage (the hot one) is a personal fav. Famously, that “cut grass” smell is actually a pheromone the plants release to attract wasps - they think they’re getting eaten! And some cucada release reproductive bug pheronomomes to attract beetles when they want to be pollinated.
The big with with plants is they move slower so a lot of their violence either happens slowly or with a trap method
I’ll leave more comments if I think of more sorry lol
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Sensitive mimosa plants move their leaves and curl them inward when disturbed! Scientists are studying them because it looks like they learn - when repeatedly exposed to the same stimulus they stop reacting but when exposed to a new one they react again. Some plants turn their leaves up at night (oxalis, prayer plants) but idk why they do.
GBIF has millions of images online including the rarest and weirdest plants - all properly identified. Some only have herbarium specimens but many have photos of the live plants. African Plants A Photo Guide has a great selection as well, though much smaller. You want weird start with the parasites like Hydnora. For strange flowers, I love the Ceropegias and stapeliads like Boucerosia, Huernia, Stapelia, Rhytidocaulon, Orbea, Edithcolea and other asclepiads in the Apocynaceae family - Matelea, Hoya, Asclepias.
Ah yeah thank you, can't wait to check it out
There are also other amazing resources for plants online like this! I had to use them for a game project I worked on.
Personally I make sure my work involves plants as long as it's not characters I draw and write about plants how they interact with the world and how they interact with each other.
For example:
A magnificent tree in the middle of a plateu atop a mountain who's main purpose is to guard the petrified corpses of the people who chose this end and the tree has a symbiotic relationship with the grass on its roots that extract the sous trapped within the corpses collecting the memories of the souls and release the soul as a waste allowing the soul to return into the cycle of everything without the burden of its previous memories. The tree offers protection to the grass and in turn the grass offers the excess memories to feed the tree. And very rarely the grass will pop out a tiny flower that can be turned into a child for those who want to have a child.
The next one is a forest of different trees that have their own sentience but are just basically trees with no way to move or see. Their existence is solely to offer themselves to the lonely god of that mountain as either literal firewood or emotional support and in turn the lonely god nurtures their growth and be their mediator. They have their own culture, thoughts and emotions, but without the god they have no way of expressing it to either outsiders or each other most of the time. The god has no way of affecting them in any way since they don't belong to this god and are the creations of another god.
Wonderful ideas, glad to see other world builders incorporating nature into their stories.
I'm currently taking part in a gamejam as the artist and today I want to take on the plants of the gaming level. So finding this on my homepage was very well timed. Thank you for the inspiration and putting me into the right mindset
Youre welcome, good luck with your game jam. Competitive creative games are always a blast.
Especially for fantasy worlds, I find including specific real world plants to be really helpful and fun for making it feel real and atmospheric. Not only does learning what grows in certain areas/why help you make your own plants, but all of the folklore and relationships between plants is so interesting! For example, here in Australia the waratah flower is said to have become red when a wonga pigeon went looking for her mate and got caught by a hawk, who made her bleed all over the white waratahs. If you look at endemic plants there are some pretty crazy things, too. It disappoints me a little when some authors get so into the worldbuilding and then forget about plants, so I'm happy to see this video and read the comments. Plants and ecology are so cool :))
Thanks for the video!
Very interesting indeed. A tad violent... Poor little pigeon : (
@@CreoSolus i know :( from what I've found most folklore for red flowers seems to be similar though
You’ve tickled my imagination with the idea of a « Chekov’s Flower Arrangement » that has to be key to the plot. 😂😂😂
Glad to help
Love that, I've got a surrealist slice of life so I just thought "I might do that" about the writing lore for an unimportant plant bit haha
I loved the video! I've recently started getting really into plants and botany and have been wanting to put them in a fantasy world or story, so it's really inspirational to see others share that love of plants. Truly a realm of untouched possibilities for worldbuilding. In the case of video length, I think it's all about what you think works best for what you're trying to communicate, so do what feels natural for you! You're doing great :D
Glad you liked it. I appreciate the feedback for video length.
Absolutely agree, always great to meet like minded people.
This video is so helpful! I'm making a post apocalypse story where plants are Really Important, but I've grown up drawing people, so I've been having a hard time figuring out where to start on designing and drawing them. The suggestion of plant books was really eye-opening!
People are so difficult, you'll be able to pick up plants in no time.
Pelargoniums are pretty dope plants, for example P. tetragonum, square stems with sparse hairy leaves followed by big flowers, stems can grow meters long but very fragile. P. gibbosum have yellow flowers that smell like banana in dusk and dawn but scentless the rest of the day and night. Silvery foliage that smell like mild soap, the stems are thick and super thin, they are called gout pelargoniums for that reason. P. cotyledonis grow like bonsai trees without really training them, really pretty foliage as well. P. mirabile also falls into bonsai territory. P. bowkeri have really cool flowers that look like they were bred for generations by human hand but alas no, it's a wild species just like the rest of them. P. quinquelobatum is close to impossible to get color accurate pictures of, they look blue, pink, white, yellow and purple just between two pictures taken at the same time in a series.
I used to have a pelargonium tetragonum, I'll definitely do some research on all your suggestions.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I looooove this video! I'm totaly into plants, leeches and fungi! I love the patterns, the colors the shapes... it's another world! And bringing a story arround that world is so amazing. It's just I didn't find much artist doing so. There are some and still there is so much potential from plants, leeches and fungi geting lost because it's so redundant for many people...
Absolutely agree.
I should dive deeper into the world of fungi. There are so many amazing species out there. I'd love to design something with bio-luminescent
Oh yeees ! Fungi is just so crazy! How they live and procreate and the looks are fantastic hahha a recomendation for the point in the video about history and legens. I've read the book Gathering moss from Robin Wall Kimmerer. There she describes differt moss typs from a botanical perspective and from historical and mythical side from the native tribes from North America. It's just such a lovely reading that totaly get the creative mood swinging hahaha also Häckel and his botanical illustrations! There you can see how other worldly plants can look like! Totaly material for creating new fantasy plants.
Oh yeah, genetically modified mini ecosyetems that are used as filters for helmets. Closed systems that thrive in the dark, thin, knight like face visors across helmets of mercanaries, police forces, and military personnel across the milky way. They utilize the carbon dioxide produces by the wearer and the moisture of their breath to produce air. All dead or dying fungus filtration systems are ejected into the wearers mouth for relative sustenance, continuing the closed system for awhile. It is HIGHLY recommended not to panic or hyperventilate with the filtration systems in place, you will only lose your oxygen faster as it takes a bit to produce oxygen. Breath deep and slowly to maximize air usage and allow the filtration systems to continue to produce oxygen in vaccums, high or low pressure environments, or extremely dangerous exterior conditions where oxygen may not be available or utilizing oxygen tanks is inefficient and cumbersome. (Such as heavy warfare or extremely hot, cold, or radioactive environments where an oxygen tank may burst, be damaged or comprised in some way.) If you must overwork with the filtration system, make sure it is only one way so you can breath the oxygen you provide to the filters. The filters will filter heavy chemical agents, nerve agents, gasses, liquids, dirt and dust at the cost of producing oxygen slower. Use the deep breath techniques in these situations. If there is no need to filter out any sort of breathable atmosphere, you may close the filtration vents with a button on the helmets temple. Then, you may breath freely as if wearing nothing. Make sure to clean the mask once every 35 years to prevent mold.
Awesome, well written. As if it's straight out of a novel
@@CreoSolus Thanks! It's gonna be one alright!
I wasn't even thinking about plants for my stories except for maybe one or two instances where they'd be relevant to a spell or something. Now I want to explore a little more botany, which is not something I ever thought I'd say again after college outside of brewing tea.
I love tea, but I only sometimes have the patience to brew with my tetsubin teapot. What is your favourite type of tea?
what a gem to find in my recommed! I love botany and world building both. I've thought a bit about what real life plants might be in my worlds, but now I want to try creating my own! Luckily I have plenty of books I can use as a refrence!
Awesome, it's always great to rely on your collection of books.
Good luck with your world building and plant design.
I have a fantasy world that's inspired by the 3 kingdoms of biology (animalia, plantae, fungi), this is so helpful for providing me with many cool plants ideas for the character designs.
I've been working on the Plantaeans recently, and one of the faction is basically the 12 knights of the round table but each are different types of flowers
That is a really neat idea, I feel uniqueness is key to a good story
@@CreoSolus inspiration could come from anything. This world orginally came from some sketches i drew when i get bored in biology class. Now it has become my creative testing ground, making a bunch of cool and wacky characters i've never even thought off before
i hate character design, mainly when characters are people, but animals are different thing! I love designing creatures thats so much fun! Plant are also really fun to do i love making fantasy forests and plains magicaly alive. Thank you! AMAZING VIDEO
Creature designing is awesome. I haven't drawn one in forever.
Whats your favourite creature to draw?
@@CreoSolus hard question, i think my favorite are when an idea comes to my head and i instantly know how this creature will fit to my world
@@CreoSolus dinosaurs are always a fun draw.
now thinking about it, you could probably try adding paleontology to your world.
dinosaurs, plants and whatnot.
but the real interesting part is how the fantasy civilization perceives the past vs the actual past. just like how we thought dinosaurs were these scary lizards, but most likely are just big birds. for example looking at a hippo skull, you will find many beastly interpretations outside of what we know a hippo is. it would be interesting to apply this to creature drawings
for the SlipperWorts I would recommend against using the word "parasitic" to describe their relationship to bones (as this implies that the SlipperWorts infiltrate a host and feed on their bones while the host is alive). Instead, describing it as "the bones having a catalytic relationship with the blooming of the SlipperWorts".
(parasitism requires the parasite to be deriving the nutrients/resources from a living host
Thanks for the advice, I just thought of parasitic worms that eat bones. But you're right catalytic might be a better description.
As an artist plant and nature love as well as a writer this only furthers what I've already had planned for my story. I 100% agree that people should include plants into their stories more often, thank you for making this video ❤
No problem. Best of luck with your writing.
Avatar was a very frustrating experience as a spec bio nerd who knows trees are not interchangeable background details.
I can imagine
I'm very glad I bought so many how to draw and art reference books during my adolescence before the AI imagery trend ruined art references online
Money well spent indeed. Books truly last the test of time.
Not only do I appreciate the topic of this video, I am pleased that it is short and to the point. Lately, I’ve stopped clicking on videos longer than 10 minutes because they’re nearly always filled with filler instead of actual information. This video, by contrast, is just right: intro, a few good points and instructions, examples, and a few words in closing. Thank you for not wasting my time!
Thanks for the feedback, i totally feel you. Or worse when its just basically a 10min ad for their own merchandise.
Something I also wanna add to the discussion are subspecies of plants -- that is taking a simple plant and seeing how many variants you can make of it while still keeping it in the same "family".
Best example are the silverswords: there are 3 species of silverswords but there's roughly over 20 SUBspecies recorded that vary from stalk plants to shrubs to actual trees to a literal vine! Yet all of them have similar blooms and or leaf shapes and tend to grow at high altitudes. It'd be interesting to see more variants of important plants in a series that seem to look wildly different at a glance!
Fantastic addition. viburnum has over 150 variants. Absolute insanity
@@CreoSolus 150?!? Good lord that IS insanity! Don't know how scientists recorded them all but that's SO COOL!!
i recently tired some fantasy botany like this, it's pretty fun making a plant basically it's own little character in a way
i think a fun way to think up designs and ideas is to have a theme for them, for example, 1 plant i made was a plant that represents heart break, so i made the leaves look like broken hearts, and had it have poisonous barbs that won't kill you but will give you the same ache like you are heart broken
then that leads to MORE fun when you think of how it's used or what animals could eat such a plant
Very cool, art is always better when you find a way to incorporate meaning into it
@CreoSolus exactly, it's such a cool feeling
I've been working on a world called 'Aludel', which is a post-post apocalypse world radically transformed by the alchemy of dragons trying to perfect themselves and the world at large into pieces of art. It is now 100,000 years into the future and all the life forms that were once made to be statements of art now have to scrounge for bio-accumulating alchemical compounds. I've been at a loss for how to incorporate plants into them, but this video gives me the confidence to commit to making mutant plantlife.
Heck, plants are much more accepting of mutations, so they should, really, be the strangest of them all.
Thank you so much for making this video.
Awesome idea good luck with your story.
Yip they are super adaptable.
Ooh I hve something similar iin mind. Trying to build and evolve an ecosystem from living works of art (and in my case, art made by an alien intelligence with a wild array of senses and especially a natural awareness of inner biological processes and further complications, which is also tempered with by other, somewhat naive intelligence including humans, implying the possibility that the creator might get inspired by human input, but me being wary of taking the bait to drop literal dragons because of this, and adding to this the complexities of having this world in a very different cosmic environment... Sorry for the rant lol) has proven to be a challenge indeed. I'd be interested in whatever you feel like uploading in the future
@@LeDingueDeJeuxVideos Oh, dude, we should collaborate.
@@pokenectionswithprofessorp2979 Lol, I dont have much to show for it unfortunately
The internet archive is great for reading books if you can't buy them!!
And the Biodiversity Heritage Library for plants and animals.
Excellent suggestion
Lovely video! One of my favorite plants has got to be the passionflower, with its wild violet tendrils, mesmerizing rings, and distinctive towering pistil. Plus, its fruit is delicious! 😋
Absolutely spectacular flower, and the passion fruit is relatively quick to grow from seed.
I am really glad someone made a video like this! When I was making my story idea years ago, I wanted there to be a substance that was highly addictive substance that carried some of the narrative, but was also thematic to the story's themes and motifs. I settled on something called Sickle Root! Much of the story revolves around magic that uses vitality and blood, and so sickle root was a root that resembled a sickle blood cell as seen with sickle cell anemia. This video reminded me I should really incorporate even more plants and environmental phenomena!
That is very clever, creating a unique substance and a viable source of origin.
Sickle Root sounds like an awesome idea!!
Even me as a biology student me and my pears tend to forget(or atleast not care really) the importance of plants in any ecosystem. I would personally find them boring. It was when my professor discussed about root systems and how certain plant roots can effect their surrounding such as certain trees destroying cement with their large roots, That there really peaked my interest. So my advice to anyone in my shoes is to just go and find out the cool things you like about plants
Funnily enough i had to dig up my concrete path the other day, because a tree root destroyed it.
@@CreoSolus oh i see, i hope it wasnt too hard for you sir!
The art and concepts are so cool and I love your intro animation! Back in middle school I would create/design a lot of complex ecosystems and species for my stories, but my current work doesn’t have enough of it. Now I’m inspired to add more botany to my story again!
Always a treat to relive youthful moments. Hope you can spare some time for it.
I've made my story into the main driving force behimd the villain's motif... I love them that much and I WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLANTS CONSTANTLY
Great appetite for knowledge
I'm in the realm between worldbuilders, readers, gamers, devloggers and worldview discussions. I love everything and do nothing proper.
When it comes to plants then I think the best thing I can contribute to your question is a little story of mine.
When was on my bachelor in electrical engineering I had to look stuff up for a project of mine. I have no clue anymore, what the project was. I only remember it was not related at all. And that is when I stumbled upon a curious book on google books. It is called plants and water. I found that an interesting combination. Who do plants actually handle water. I didn't immediately pursue the book, as I had studying to do and the book has about 1000 pages. But after school finished, I went through my to buy book list and saw it again. That's when I bought it.
The book is setup in a way that each chapter is written by a different scientist. Because of that, not only the difficulty but even the language differs in each chapter. I'm Swiss, so both the German and English chapter didn't pose any problem to me. After reading about 700 pages I needed a break and I'm still in that break. When I go about continue to read that book, I will be greeted by one chapter that is in French. That will be a bit difficult for me, as I forgot most of my school French.
Another thing that is interesting about that book is that it was published in 1956. So many things that they found difficult to calculate back then is a small python script of today. But they still found out many things about how the chemistry in cells works, how the roots interact with the soil and the water in the soil and how water evaporates on the leaves. I think it is one of the more memorable spur of the moment buys and I would love to make a game at one point in the future, where you have to manage the growth of a plant based on that book. But I have many other ideas which I want to do before that.
Wow that book sounds fascinating. And im impressed that you can speak so many languages I struggle with just the 2.
@@CreoSolus Any book is fascinating, if someone who is interested in talks about it. :)
What are the 2 languages you speak?
If you want to call Swissgerman and German different languages then those are two. This is actually something which linguists disagree on. Some say it is the same language, just different dialects and others say they are different languages.
And then there is French which I had a conversation level 10 years ago, but not anymore. If I have enough time and easy enough sentences then I can still understand it somewhat. But my French speaking skills are terrible and if something is a mildly complicated French then I struggle a lot.
So in a way I also only speak 2 languages.
I'm not, like, a huge plant person. But I do love when the flora in a book is put to use. All of the botany books I have are on medicinal/edible herbs. I've got a book on trees, but the one I actually use is all about the edible and medicinal wild plants of North America. Useful in the real world, and also for your books.
Like did you know that pricky pear was applied underneath bandages to promote healing? it was also used to increase milk in new mothers, sooth sores on people and animals, soothing arthritis, to reduce fevers, to treat dysentery.
Totally cool, I've also got one but for southern Africa
I turn videos like these on for company so I will gladly listen to an hour long video on plants and art
I do that with history videos
yeeeessssss love this. plants are pretty integral to my main fantasy story as it follows 2 botanists/naturalists and the antagonist is (in a massive oversimplification) a disease which starts by infecting plants. the whole reason it's botanists "saving the world" is just because they were the first ones to care about a disease affecting only birch trees (at first)
Man that sounds cool, good luck with this awesome idea.
You just opened a whole new concept for me to use. thank you! I never really gave much thought to plants as a story element only worldbuilding.
Happy to help
I always wanted to have a botanic textbook about the plants in my world, these old books are so beautiful. Thanks for the video!
No problem, yip old books are an absolute gem
I love plants so much, I love stories that pay attention to even small things like this
Same here
around 20 minutes seems like a good video to me.
also, as a (self proclaimed) plant enthusiast and writer, I'm VERY grateful for ideas on how to incorporate more plants into my books besides a character being able to control them
Thanks for the feedback, always nice to meet fellow artists
Been meaning to look into flora, the sciences of plants and even the culture we have around them. Thank you
That sounds like an exceptionally interesting research project. Good luck
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I will add plants to the worldbuilding of my book, but I'm still learning how to fit them harmonically.
I was almost info dumping my future readers, but I would rather write the characters interacting with them and just casually talking about as if it were popular knowledge/common sense in the world.
Scavengers Reign does that really well.
Thanks for the video!
Awesome stuff, thxs for the recommendation
I highly recommend Subnautica for a well-thought underwater flora. The way devs tied it to the gameplay is amazing, I've scanned and read all of the info entries in that game which I almost never do. They even have quite a few symbiotic plants and fish pairs existing in tandem. And just generally speaking I appreciate their pretty cohesive ecosystem. Like I'll scan a boring-looking plant knowing there's most likely no recipe using it, and I wouldn't even use it for my underwater garden, but then the data entry will say it's a staple food for local fauna, and thus very important even if it's completely useless to me. Stuff like this really puts things into perspective! And it's true for real life, too.
Really can't recommend Subnautica enough, there's a lot effort that went into their big plant catalogue :)
Yeah it's an awesome game, but man do i fear the murky dark waters
the Philippines has a lot of legends about origins of plants. Most popular is the legend of pineapples as it is taught in schools. A pineapple was born because of a kid who refuses to use her eyes to find the items her mom asked her to look for, hence the pineapple having a lot of eyes. That kid turned into a pineapple. There are different variations of the story, there's others who say the mother wished the kid had more eyes to use out of frustration which she regretted the morning the kid turned into a pineapple while others say the kid is punished by a diwata(fairy spirit) for her refusal to help her mother.
There are a lot of legends out there and my favorite is the legend of Waling-Waling, a type of orchid. It's because I like orchids and the story is also similar to Rapunzel.
you can draw out inspiration from existing cultural legends from around the world to incorporate in your story. They are pretty cool.
Very fascinating, i absolutely love seeing wild orchids always a treat to stumble upon.
I’m a writer and YT recommended this and I thought it was gonna be writing advice and I was so here for it like “YES. TELL ME HOW TO INCORPORATE PLANTS STRAIGHT UP INTO MY STORY. ARE THEY SENTIENT?!”
😂😅
This makes more sense
Awesome. Yeah definitely lent more towards drawing and style advice over writing tips.
Really good topic, this need more attention
Thxs for the words of encouragement.
An aunt once told me to beware the plant in her living room during a short stay at her place. She said it's sap could take away my voice if it got into my mouth or a cut. I have never confirmed the species or the potential of poisons that plants can possess, after all she was likely just trying to prevent a bored child from damaging her property. Regardless of the truth, i still maintain the awe and respect of plant life that her warning commanded from me.
She sounds like an interesting fellow. Who cares a great deal about her plants.
great video! it's really inspired me to add more plant life to my writing :)
Thank you. Happy to help.
The reason why you aren't seeing character artists take an interest in plants is literally just because they are character artists who are focused on characters. Once you get to the environmental and concept artists both in the 2D and 3D space y'all be a lot happier! :D
Definitely, I love it when a game or movie is done and i get to see all the artists drop their concept creations
I would just like to mention, I have only found out about your channel today and after looking at many different more popular channels I think I've found what I've been looking for with yours. When you talked about the hard / soft magic in your other video I immediately subscribed to your channel with notifications on. I completely agree and most other channels I've seen really try to "stick to the rules" I guess whilst I feel like you encourage the creative freedom someone can have while writing compared to others who make these kinds of videos. I really wish you the best with your youtube channel as well as your own stories and I'm honestly surprised you aren't more popular.
I've always been told in my life that I have a talent for writing or just creative work, however I never felt encouraged to pursue anything to do with it until recently when I've decided to start writing my own books and learn how to draw. A lot of self-doubt comes into play, especially when I feel I've written my world into a dead-end and have to back-track the world building again. Videos like these that talk about world building and story writing tend to be a big help with getting out of the self-doubt mindset and I'm very thankful for it.
And one more thing: please, please, please keep making content. I'm not familiar with editing or anything like that and I'm certain you put a lot of effort into your videos, but I genuinely think your channel has so much potential to grow and help others like me.
Thank you for your wonderful comment. Absolutely, creativity shouldn't be limited.
Keep aiming for your dreams, wish you the best of luck with your writing. Self doubt is a natural part of any artist and somedays it's a lot stronger than others.
loved this video! I struggle alot with drawing any sort of vegetation, and I found this dive through getting reference, designing and implementing plants in worlds really intriguing. will be looking out for plant related books the next time I enter a library.
Awesome to hear that, good luck with your future drawings
I am making my own homebrew world for a tabletop game, and its honestly so fun, even if i never manage to gather a group to play it! While it works as a good creative challenge, both while designing and writing, it gets sort of distracting to look for inspiration online! I would never have thought to look through my bookcase if not for you, and lo and behold, i managed to find an old book about botany from 1910 from an old relative! The illustrations are fantastic, and it has short descriptions about its parts! Thank you for the inspiration and tips! ☺
Thats awesome that you were able to find one, best of luck with your world and finding a group to explore it with.
It's become somewhat popular recently, but the Sandbox tree is a, well, tree, that has 'fruits' growing on it's trunk that explode and shoot the seeds out at genuinely dangerous speeds.
Yip that tree is wicked looking
THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR FOR WEEKS AND NOW YOU POP UP IN MY HOME FEED. YES.YESYYEYSSSSS SUCH A BLESSING
Hopefully it was worth the search
Most amazing my friend! Truly inspiring good sir
Thank you for the wonderful comment
This is so cool! Its giving me a lot of ideas for my own world. Loved your invented plants & drawings
Thank you.
As someone who loves alchemy in worldbuilding, plants do have a certain hold on me
It's such a cool part of history and fantasy
Outside of second hand bookstores, check out your local libraries for plant books!! I bet that local libraries have sections for them, and if not you can always request plant books!!
Good idea. Thxs for the addition
the greatest of all fictional plants: The Triffids!
Day of the triffids
Thank you for this video, after it I immediately grabbed album and pencil, very inspiring. I honestly never thought about plants in my stories! That was a huge oversight
No problem, always glad to get someone interested in plants
This was super helpful for me. Especially the way you explained how plants can help a series develop. My series is heavily inspired by southeast asian mythology (specifically parts of tibet and Malaysia.) with some things in my world offering a twist on the creatures I read about. Your video made me look at a bunch of tibetan wildflowers for inspiration and theyre all so gorgeous. I'll definitely think of a way to add some of them into the story Im developing. Thank you so much. I will definitely be adding more flora to the series im working on.
When my work is able to help That is all I could ever ask for. Thanks for the wonderful comment
A work of art that heavily features plants as an integral part of the narration is the game Elden Ring.
It may not seem so at first glance, but there are different plants, flowers and such for every area of the game, and even every magical power. There are flowers for the lightning, for certain demigods, flowers for the frenzied flame, even flowers that only bloom on corpses of those who died fighting dragons.
The best part is that this applies for the fauna as well, with butterflies, for example.
Interesting thought, I'll play more attention next time i see game play.
Literally perfect timing to get this recommended as I was just recently thinking about developing different plants / evolved plants since my story has a lot to do with insects
Awesome timing indeed, good luck with your story
lol i stole some plant trimmings from a zoo today. i love them so much fr
I'll do then same when I see interesting succulents. I'll grab a small cutting and propagate it.
Your appreciation for plants is lovely, I was planning on getting more into the study of plants and bugs to hopefully give me ideas for my story, but at some point I completely forgot about the plants, this video popping up on my recommendation was a great reminder!
Hope you continue to develop your story, bugs are fascinating, i love spiders.
I don't think the relationship can be "parasitic" if the other half of it is dead. It's more of a saprotroph thing.
Great video❤
Good point, I'll think of a better way to phrase it. Thank you
Quite wonderful ideas for such a great subject! We should educate ourselves about plants and at the same time nature in general is a constant and huge inspiration for artist and scientists!
We definitely should, The natural world is limitless inspiration
Just what I needed ❤ algorithm gods are good to me today
They have smiled upon us indeed.
"like all projects, start with reference". Why? That's exactly why people get stuck in the same style, same way of drawing things ....
You'd be surprised to discover just how much originality can come out of drawing when you don't really know how you "should" be drawing it, and OPEN yourself up to the library of images you already have stocked in your mind from all your life AND draw how you'd want to Express that certain something instead of how it should look like. HUGE distinction if you are able to get it. That's when your Genius is actually activated, by navigating uncharted territory, as that's what Creation ultimately is. Connect to the current Artwork, allow it to bloom - pun intended - into whatever it wants (not in what you need it to be) and take Ownership of those Choices that don't have the outside validation of a reference photo.
Well said, thanks for the wonderful addition of information.
Less than 20 mins is a good place to start!
Thanks for the feedback
This is giving me a hankering to draw some plants now.
Awesome stuff. Good luck
The video game Strange Horticulture is wonderful
A few people have recommended it, its awesome
this was a super helpful video, thank you :) i got here after thinking about how dungeon meshi uses plants in its story
No problem, and thanks for the kind feedback.
i once had an idea for a world where human and plant swapped places in an event of some sort.
It was interesting trying to figure out how the plants would show emotions and have more humanoid bodies while still keeping to the original thing, and you could imagine how freaky the scenery would’ve looked xD
Very interesting idea, but sounds very tricky to develop.
I really liked this! I'd love to watch a vid on how you decide what kind of features a plant has given its use and environment!
Those are some good ideas prehaps I'll try to incorporate them into a future video
As an aspiring game developer making a large world, this video was very inspirational. thank you.
Happy to help, good luck with your future development. What engine do you use?
@@CreoSolus I just use Unreal Engine 5. It's really nice to use, and it just looks really good.
I want to make a comic where the world having strange fictional biodiversity like in animation series scavengers reign, but it's quite hard to find refference and what fundamental should i learn for the first step, this video help me a lot❤
I think with all designing, in the beginning borrow a lot for already existing plants and forms in nature. And with time you can push the limits to what is believable or not.
If you are a university student, check if your university library has botanical books! and if they have "online copies" for download, since those mostly last until you delete them
Excellent suggestion
I’m actually worldbuilding an island full of exotic plant life that is designed in very similar ways to the way that you come up with yours. Except instead of starting with a species as inspiration, I start with an adaptation.
I’m not saying this is the only way to do it. I just want to vent some passion for a moment.
So by adaptations, I mean things like carnivorous plants. In my story, there’s a vine that latches onto to a victim as a burr. The seed then sprouts roots that grow deep into the victim. The vine can not be killed through cutting the leafy vine itself. It will only resprout much like a Winter Ivy vine. You have to remove the entire taproot which often grows to be several feet long and wrapping itself around organs or crawling down a limb towards the digits. Eventually the animal will become immobile or dead as the vine either expands into joints or strangles the organs.
As soon as the taproot senses that it has touched dirt, the vine will flower.
The tower bison have skin so thick that these vines will have trouble breaking through. The bison will very often sniff and nibble at eachother looking for leach vines that they can snack on. When a vine is deep enough that the tower bison can sense the end drawing near, the bison will wander deep into the dark jungle far away from the herd. After the bison finally succumbs to the vine, it flowers. The bison carried the vine far away further spreading the parasitic flora and bringing the vine to a new gene pool preventing inbreeding.
Oh my goodness, plants that grow inside people terrify me. Can't imagine the pain of roots breaking tissue.
You've got some awesome ideas, best of luck with your world building.
@@CreoSolus Thank you, Same to you and your ideas
I'd be more than onboard for a full series.
As for plants that aee really stuck in my mind, the Giant Hogsweed for its ease of maiming people comes to mind.
So do mosses for me though, though unassuming they have a fascinating reproductive cycle and their soft touch and building of biomss stand out to me.
I've always been more of a zoology biff though so ill plop out the required bit about sea lilliesand corrals not being plants at all although reeef building corrals have algae in them.
Gianr Kelp isnt technically a plant either though it is a eukaryotic autotroph...if we are sticking to formal defintions for plants.
Wonderful video!
Totally agree kelp, seaweed and moss are some of my favourite plants
@@CreoSolus Btw, I am sorry for writing poorly spelled comments, typing while sleepy is a bad practice of mine.
omg this is exactly the content i wanted. also, for photo references of plants on the internet, i recommend inaturalist! it's meant to be a place to upload photos of wild species (plants, bugs, mushrooms, birds, whatever!) to identify them, which means it has a bunch of pictures sorted by species (or genus or whatever)
Glad it was useful, yip ive used it before its pretty good.
In my story, the name of a flower that only grows along the banks of one river became the name of the river itself, which influenced the names of settlements along the river bank, which led to different chiefs fighting for control over travel and trade on this stretch of the river, which led to one chief using the name of the river as an honorific meaning "ruler of the river" (other opposing chiefs copied him) and this honorific became a full on royal title when one of the chiefs beat all the others in a war. Then, in control of all of the settlements along the bank of the river, he divided the lands into large sections and referred to these sections with a word that comes from the rivers name. So this term of a body of land became synonymous with this large growing human settlement and eventually the new term was shortened into what is now the name of the nation and it became the name of the whole nation when a ruler from that settlement went on to conquer neighboring lands and bring them into his own
Awesome way to use plants. Nicely written and incorporated into your story.
a good example of a fictional animal (I know this video is about plants, but I still think it's worth mentioning) is the yellow-spotted lizards of the book and movie HOLES. They aren't overly fantastical, so even though they're fictional, it's still easy to imagine a poisonous lizard that lives in the Southwestern United states
Sounds intriguing I'll check it out, thank you
Have you seen camas flowers? They're pretty unique!
If you aren't looking closely, they might blend in with other flowers in a grassy field, but they're actually in the Agavoideae subfamily so their anatomy is quite different from the plants around them!
Plus some are purple and purple is the best color. (Just don't eat the white camas or you'll be super dead!)
Just searched them up I have seen them but didn't know their name.
Had no idea they were poisonous, thanks for the warning.
@@CreoSolus No problem!
They're interesting little flowers! Apparently, the purple kind were grown as a crop by native peoples near where my parent's house stands today. But there are no camas flowers there anymore... It really makes you wonder what colonization takes from a land and its people.
Beautiful idea. Haven't heard this one before and (not surprisingly) you've caught me with this video in a phase of being fascinated by plants.
Thank you, hopefully you fascination of plants will continue.
adding plants to my world rn
Awesome stuff
7:05 Ah, yes. Floral horrors beyond typical comprehension.
XD
I love plants! They are so interesting and diverse. Very underrated too. I have a vintage orchid care book that i bought at a pub of all places! Its gorgeous
I can imagine, old orchid illustrations are fantastic.
I recommend adding bioluminescence to the plants. It's what I enjoyed about Avatar despite its many flaws.
Yip i plan on trying it out with fungi.
I wonder if the creator has seen scavenger's reign (its on both hbo and netflix)? it has incredible design for the plant life and the creators did an amazing job to use the flora and fauna design to create an incredibly unique scifi world that is all show and almost no tell.
Indeed i have. A pleasant watch to be sure.
Place plants into your world, and so much world building can grow from there. Agriculture, economics/trade, architecture, magic(sciences), culture, medicine, and much more has been affected by plants in real life. Even if it’s just a shade tree in the backyard of your protagonist’s childhood home. They don’t need to be front and center. But definitely consider your world’s flora. In a world of mine, there is a strain of genetically modified grains that are hardy enough to survive arctic regions. It doesn’t come up anywhere, but you can see fields of this grain as you travel the tundra, and it means there can be bread and porridge and domesticated livestock there as well.
Excellent advice, agree completely.
You have a great point here, i'm designing a world but yea i have a bunch of creatures but very few plants, i need to get into it right now !
Plus i love plants and i'm recently getting into it so yea
Awesome, you can make a food source for all your creatures
I world popped into my head a couple months ago that was mostly about a squad of friends exploring this new world, specifically the non human part of the world. But for this, I needed to know a lot more about plants and animals, something I knew absolutely nothing about so I’ve been quite stuck on just the character development. Which sucks cause now it’s like Scavenger’s Reign on HBO without the nature, which is the beauty of the story.
If you've found the problem you're halfway there to fixing the problem.
Good luck with your world
your designs are so interesting i love the roots evolving to whip around and the self made terrarium and the idea of plants growing on bones these are such sick ideas im just ecstatic that i found a video about plant design
Thank you. Judging by your usename are you a lego enthusiast?
Avatar frontiers of Pandora have awesome plants too! I love reading their descriptions its so cool how they made them with the world and they have their own unique designs n abilities. There are electric plants and plants that help you jump. :3 theres also giant ones you can rest your Ikran on.
Indeed, I've been seeing a lot of the concept art on art station lately