Imagine carbon-based alien life which is truly ‘alien.’ This is a breakdown of Alex Ries’s incredible worldbuilding art project: ‘The World of the Birrin.’ Somewhere in the vast unknown of space, alien life may be waiting for us. But these beings, even if they’re carbon-based like we are, probably won’t be the familiar humanoids present in many stories — but organisms which are truly, well, alien. Alex Ries is an artist who strives to imagine speculative aliens with genuinely unique appearances. He also worked behind the scenes on the various aliens of the video game Subnautica.