"TV Tropes, Edgar here, and welcome to Artifexian! Here you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about world building, and then some!"
Carl Sagan once said, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Now I do love me some pie, so logically, I've embarked on a one-man mission to construct an entire fictional universe, from scratch.
— From Welcome to Artifexian
Artifexian is a YouTube-based video channel created in early 2014. The host's name is Edgar Grunewald, and he's from Ireland.
The videos created cover a wide variety of topics on Worldbuilding and conlanging, though not for the purposes of writing a book or making a game, but rather to teach the audience how to create believable, scientifically plausible, constructed worlds. note
The main channel is here, and a podcast channel with his friend Bill McGrath is right here.
Artifexian also contributed to the first episode of Alien Biospheres.
Provides examples of:
- Alien Sky: Multiple examples:
- One of the aspects looked at in the alien atmospheres video. Niflhiem is shown to have yellow skies while Clorox has a lime haze.note
- Discussed on how to do in the sky/plant color video. Methods include adding certain gases, suspending colored particles, or changing the type of the star/stars.
- As for how the objects in the backdrop of the sky would actually look, there's this video.
- One of the aspects looked at in the alien atmospheres video
- Art Evolution: The earlier videos often used whiteboard stop-motion, while the current videos are completely animated.
- Binary Suns: Talked about, along with the restraints that come with it, in a couple videos.
- Build your own Tatooine gives a few rules and tips on doing a Type I system.note
- Build your own Anti-Tatooine covers building a Type III system.note
- Creates a system with four stars, AKA, a "Battlestar Galactica" system here.
- Build your own Tatooine
- Conlang: Has a series of videos meant for helping with this.
- Fantasy World Map: A multi-video step by step tutorial for doing one that looks quite professional in Adobe Illustrator right here.
- Planetary Romance: His podcast features regular worldbuilding segments set in a solar system where the three inhabited planets are based on different worldbuilding paradigms, one of them being a planetary romance. It has .6 earth gravity, meaning that humans who grow up there are much taller, humans who reach there from other worlds are comparatively far stronger, and airship technology is much easier to develop with pre-industrial technology.
- Worldbuilding: What the channel's about.
- World Shapes: Has an overview on Synestia/"donut-shaped" planets here.
