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A slightly modified tail gesture ring design. This time done in Plasticity rather than Blender. Plasticity is more CAD-like, so it makes modeling tech a bit easier.

A musical instrument played by the tail. A spacer terraboo.

Moots fill the same social niche as the nuclear family. Childermoots are a special kind of moot, but moots can be formed without the intent to raise a litter. Biological factors limit childermoots to twelve members divided evenly between the sexes, but moots g...

While the Allied Worlds is the chief source of entertainment media, a few offerings from outside the AW have managed to achieve system-wide success. The Train of Wonders is a children's educational TV show from Hearthside starring a litter of pups and their c...

Kissing the glass of the star hearth is a common pious practice among Wayfarers. For yinrih, "kissing" means gently touching the wet part of the nose to a surface and quickly exhaling. Star hearths in more devout corners of Focus are covered in nose prints. Th...

As yinrih do not sweat, bathing is less frequent compared to humans. Yinrih from most cultures bathe weekly (about every 12 Terran days), usually before or after torpor. A comprehensive yinrih shower may take upward of an hour from start to finish, as a yinrih...

I'm figuring out UV unwrapping in Blender. I think my next step is to draw a model with techtonic plates, then I can sketch landmasses over that. The only set feature is that the yinrih's cradle continent, which I am calling Damsback (dam's back) in English, i...

I was just playing around with the shape builder tool in InkScape.

Logo of the Unionists, which is a reference to the standard Allied Worlds symbol. It's six circles inside a hexagon instead of four circles inside a diamond. The AW symbol done in the same style.

Here's a different version of the logo for the knights of the sun. It's more obvious that the arch in the center is Yih's ring.

Here's a 3D "render" of the Dewfall (really it's a screenshot of the Plasticity viewport because I'm too lazy to export it to Blender for actual rendering). While the colors are mostly there to differentiate the different parts, the forward impact shield is ma...

This is more or less what a womb ship looks like after it has landed. The force projectors (the green structures on the earlier image) and the impact shield (the blue outer shell) are jettisoned before the ship de-orbits. There are now "pawdles" (handle bars)...

Here's the Dewfall textured in Blender.

Myosteol is the human name for a chemical added to the potable water of orbital colonies that negates the bone and muscle atrophy that spacers would otherwise experience. It's toxic to humans. Humans can add tablets to drinking water to neutralize it. Human-fr...

I refuse to call it art, but AI-generated images can be a good source of inspiration sometimes. This is the closest I've come to getting an AI image generator to depict the yinrih. There are some obvious discrepancies beyond the usual AI horror show. The eyes ...

Here's a much nicer geopolitical map of Focus

Because yinrih language relies very heavily on subtle chances in volume, analog radio telephony--voice communication--proved much more difficult for monkey foxes than it did for humans. When radio signals bounce off the ionosphere, they can experience fading, ...

I'm impressed I've been able to keep this up for so long. I didn't even notice the 700th post at the time. Almost nobody IRL knows about this little project of mine. I feel ashamed to bring it up. I aggressively separate my online persona from my meatspace sel...