Xtra Studios

Making odd stuff since 2018

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About Me

Hi everybody, i go by XtraStudios, Xtra Motian, or preferably just Xtra, I'm an Artist, Writer, & Speculative Evolution enthusiast. while I've had (and still have) a load of projects, I've directed my focus to just one and one i have a lot of optimism for. The Star Scheme! The Star Scheme is a speculative evolution, worldbuilding, & writing project that i started in February, the current focus for the project is to explore the anthropologies of 4 alien species (plus humanity!) connected via an interstellar network. later on i want to properly write a story that takes place in this world, thus the name of the project here are my socials i barely use, feel free to check them out if you wish! Youtube Bluesky

i have other socials, but consider only the ones i explicitly share to be official

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A Quick Statement

hi guys!, I'm aware of the sudden lack in posts I've been making very consistently otherwise, don't fear, I'm not dead, I've simply had a lull in progress for the star scheme, I've mainly been toying around with programming which has been (mostly) fun i'll be back with posts soon, there's alot of the star scheme ahead, so in the mean time, take a look at bunnypede dentition, their front 4 incisors are probably bony extensions of the jaws (with some specialization in their internal structure), and their molars are like sort of mini jaws that can move relatively independently of their main jaws, evolved for mashing plant matter and small animals this MIGHT become my best summer in all honesty

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a continuation of my last post, but less important, here’s a little look into my art process for making Milos’s bust, I started with an itty bitty sketch, then drew the rest of the owl, and then adjusted the mouth’s positioning to look less like an overbite and rathergrossed out (the final art can be seen in my previous post

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here’s a silly animal I made for Spind, probably some tree dwelling super mantis that eats super large flying bugs. Many plants of Spind have something akin to super hydrophobic animal hair to absorb light instead of leaves (the stamen just look like phalluses😭)

also the alien was just bait for biographical info on the human you see here, Milos Illiam (They/Them) is the secondary protagonist of The Star Scheme, they are a biologist that much like their best friend, they were born just a couple years after humanity’s first contact. While they never got into aliens as much as Noah, they were still interested in learning about them in regards to their nature as a biologist.

They are a rather calm, collected, and tolerant person who tends to show an almost baffling degree of patience for people in one way or another, they are deeply empathetic, though has a hard time properly showing to all but their partner as since being a child, they were always unsociable. A significant ‘character flaw’ you could say is how non-confrontational they are, their difficulty with expression, and setting almost any kind of boundaries.

as could likely be inferred upon my choice of words, Milos gender neutral, appearing a bit androgynous. Though I carefully designed them to also possess masculine traits as I imagine they’re content with their masculinity despite identifying as gender neutral (it’s just style in their eyes… it’s also why I probably keep typing He/Him and promptly correcting myself💔)

I’ll try baiting you folks into more earth stuff so DON’T watch out…

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say hi to my precious cat, Vegeta, he’s a sweetheart with a bad habit of biting me when I he’s happy and licking my hand and eating plastic wrappers. I will not tolerate anything but kind words towards him💖

he sounds like a blaring siren when he meows though he doesn’t tend to meow for more than like a second

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this goofy shrimp I made last year because I was bored will be canon in the star scheme, it’ll probably just be a GMO,

would you eat one of these guys?

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Pick up the phone baby!! 250 notes or smth

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absolutely hate it when the pleasurable activity procrastination hits. i’m going to do something fun that brings me joy but not yet. yeah, not yet. not yet. maybe i shouldn’t do it at all, it’s not that fun

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Mecore;

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Main Human Characters (2 of the 3)

I made some simplified drawings of 2 of the 3 main human characters I’ll be having for the star scheme (the names shown here aren’t canon anymore)

Sue Noah (He/Him) is the primary protagonist of the story I’m making up, he’s an alien enthusiast and like their best friend was born just a few years after humanity’s first contact. He is a rather eccentric man, and easy to excite partly because he’s already looked through everything he can about the aliens. He grew up on the moon, though spent his collage years down on earth to spend more time with his best friend Milos.

Milos Illiam (They/Them) is a Pacific-born biologist, and secondary protagonist to the story, he is rather calm compared to his friend, yet despite this, have remained best friends since middle school (if that exists at this point lol). Sue Noah admittedly got him interested in alien biology, something he himself can’t seem to find enough of.

Ever since then, he’s been scraping enough together to spend a year living on an alien planet, perhaps a once in a lifetime opportunity to get to know more than most about alien life, culture, biology, and many other aspects. Though, with as vaguely as I can put it without it becoming outdated in like a year or 2, not everything is as it seems…

anyways, I’ll make some rendered drawings of these guys now (I’ll post one for each, maybe give some extra details?)

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spidarrot posting, heres a render of one.. their bottom jaws are conspicuously oriented different in this image than what i showed before... must be nothing. anyways, hey got 2 bottom jaws, ancestrally speaking, earth vertebrates got their jaws from very specialized gill arches repurposed into our chompers. For Hīgra's "Ventrochords" (Spidarrot phylum), they had a proboscis that began shortening and specializing into the 3 mouthparts you see here. Their gills were located between the base of the abdomen and the end of the thorax, they have since been heavily repurposed into their lungs via their diaphragm-like gill arches

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here are each of the alien planets all 4 sophonts reside on. I made all of these from mid February to early April (there are more map variants I’m not showing here such as biome maps and tectonics). The first map is of “Spind”, the home planet of the bunnypedes, it is a low gravity planet with blue and indigo vegetation.

the second map is of “Hīgra”, the home planet of the Spidarrots, it is a high gravity planet with magenta blue vegetation.

the third map is of “Aptųm”, the home planet of the Steedhorns, it is a Land dominated cold planet with orange and coral-color vegetation.

the last map is of “Ociin”, the home planet of the mergators, it is a ocean dominated warm planet with teal vegetation.

Consider these (and whatever variants I post) to be early renditions of what’s to come, the names too are also placeholders meaning Spindly, High gravity, Autumn, & Ocean respectively.

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I made this dumb ahh animatic last month of me sliming out my WHOLE friend group, I might as well share it here. The original audio is from DoorClozer: Original

Watch at your dismay

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Bunnypede Genders

Bunnypedes have indeterminate growth, meaning they do not stop growing until they die, more often than not of old age (2 centuries). with this, the most historically prevailing concept of gender is the Gender Hex (or Gender Ternary as is more agreed upon by scholars, aliens and humans alike). This system consists of 3 genders (+ neutral in many cases)- Lights(smallest and lightest hair), Blues(middle aged and fair blue hair), and Sloes(Oldest, largest, and of Sloe colored hair). From this concept, Gerontocratic concepts emerge, making Sloes the sort of dominant gender over the other 2. while like any other culturally developed sophonts, these ideas have been warped and broken down at large, the indeterminant growth among bunnypedes for all but the few genetically modified species that dont have this quirk tend to have some idea of the gender Ternary (mind the gender hex includes both natural bunnypede sexes so for example, a Bluelass for a female blue bunnypede, or Sloelad for a male Sloe bunnypede this system varies across cultures, for example, as bunnypedes age the patterns on their body begin suggesting their specific sex, this means younger bunnybedes (lights) tend to look very similar to each other and thus are categorized as just lights instead of lads or lasses, forming a sort of "Gender Quinary". i could go on further but i feel this is already in depth enough so yeah, traditional bunnypede gender roles i guess

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I dont know when ill get the oppurtunity to say this, but Runaway To The Stars is truly a marvelous piece of fiction, its one of my favorite pieces of worldbuilding and without a doubt my favorite speculative evolution project of all time, I've known about it since late 2024 but i only got into it at the end of last year and I've fallen in love with the project since. its most certainly my biggest inspiration for my own project (if that wasn't even slightly obvious enough lol). it would seem again I've made the latest project I'm working on derivative of something i like💔 nonetheless, i hope i can go a bit deeper on why i like this project so much when i start doing Youtube stuff again (go read the comic YESTERDAY, Jay made a whole website for it and its lore and stuff) (BTW THIS ISNT MY ART, look around on jay eaton's stuff- https://www.tumblr.com/jayrockin )

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Last Sophonts!

At last, I have finished— Mergators are sophonts that are native to planet aptum, they evolved in temperate river deltas and banks, they’re octopods that use their 2 hind pairs as paddling fins while the front pair are either used in seizing prey or manipulating objects and tools. They evolved as ambush predators akin to crocodiles, however they used simple traps to capture and seize prey, they have the largest variety of domesticated mammals, from herded fish-like or cattle-like animals, to traveling shark/whale-like beasts of burden, to dog-like hunting partners, and several others.

There is a significant size disparity between males and females has caused misandry and the de”human”ization of males, being treated more as pets to be mated with. It was only in the late colonial era when comparably ‘radical’ scientists tested the intelligence of males with results suggesting equal intelligence to females. Since then the global relations between males and females has been very unstable, with groups of males even enacting violence on females, for better or worse. Since their discovery just under a century ago, the interstellar network has made an effort to help males gain their rights, however further interference with the problems of mergators societies would be deemed as a soft form of colonization that can’t be tolerated on another note, here are some other things, a sketch of the group of aliens that would make first contact with humanity, one of them looking at the wreckage with a growing feeling the civilization here may have destroyed themselves. the second thing is just a bunch of concept art i made in march, there are sketches of a previous idea i had for the Spidarrots, they were previously called the "Lionsparrows". among other concepts. the last thing was also march concept art of some bullcrap aircrafts i made, probably stuff in the "Final War" (Nonchalant lore mention oooo...)

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4th sophonts either today or tomorrow!!

Monolith, Earth, Rain, Garden, Austral, Typhoon, Orbital, Regolith,

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Was human’s first alien contact with the bunnypedes? How did that go?

While The Star scheme seems interesting to folks, it’s important to remember this is only the beginning for the project and I don’t have all the proper answers, but I will reveal more very soon, alongside the last of the 4 sophonts (hope tomorrow or the day after)