ASTROVITAE ISSUE 03
The third issue of Astrovitae Magazine is here! This issue features an interview with the popular Youtuber Curious Archive and unique section spreads and cover art commissioned by contributors. The front cover, created by the artist J. J. Aniorte, displays a creature from his project 'Polinices'. J. J. Aniorte was recently featured on Curious Archive's channel, and the first article of issue 3 highlights his project containing a plethora of bizarre, colonial animals. Three colorful spreads were illustrated by the artist Michal Sadowski (aka Ycyprid online), who has composed elaborate scenes representing the spirit of each magazine section. There is even more hiding inside, so take a peak!
The third issue of Astrovitae Magazine is here! This issue features an interview with the popular Youtuber Curious Archive and unique section spreads and cover art commissioned by contributors. The front cover, created by the artist J. J. Aniorte, displays a creature from his project 'Polinices'. J. J. Aniorte was recently featured on Curious Archive's channel, and the first article of issue 3 highlights his project containing a plethora of bizarre, colonial animals. Three colorful spreads were illustrated by the artist Michal Sadowski (aka Ycyprid online), who has composed elaborate scenes representing the spirit of each magazine section. There is even more hiding inside, so take a peak!
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CAPTIVATING WORLDS | PLANET POLINICES
PLANET POLINICES
The World of Marine Wonders
BY J. J. Aniorte
INSTAGRAM: @nature_from_polinices
TWITTER: @jjaniorte
Polinices is an ongoing worldbuilding
project that has been six years in the
making. Illustrated by the artist, J. J.
Aniorte, the project intricately depicts
aspects of organisms living on Polinices
like their anatomy, behaviors, ecology,
and taxonomy. The end goal for the
project is the publication of an extensive
encyclopedia—one that contains illustrations
and descriptions of all the marine
life living in the seas of the ictional
planet.
The project is strongly inspired by the
early periods of the Paleozoic era—
whose silent landscapes and biological
oddities have been the criteria on which
all the work sometimes draws reference
from. Polinices is a world endowed with
a warm atmosphere and surface, bathed
by a blinding sun during the day, and
covered by a salty and shallow global
ocean. This ocean is interrupted by a
single arid and bleak landmass in the
center of the planet. In the middle of
these waters—growing on the shore of a
now sunken continent—Kýanos Metropolis
rises as a long barrier reef comparable
to that of the American continent.
Here the ocean is home to many countless
and bizarre sea creatures. J. J. Aniorte
and his project invites you to embark on
a journey to explore the vibrant reefs of
this paradisiacal realm, where neither
ish nor corals exist.
The Kingdom Polyzoa. The primary
inhabitants of this world. At irst glance
their forms may appear familiar to us, but
upon further study of their anatomy, physiology,
and behavior, their true strangeness
and complicated evolutionary history
is revealed. They are the polizoans, a kingdom
of multicellular and tetrablastic organisms
divided into seven great phyla
which over eons of evolution have given
rise to a plethora of creatures that could
rival our animal kingdom in diversity.
Dipterognatha. The three body regions of
this polizoan swim independently. The head
swims from movement of the ins, while the
two digestive lobes swim by jet propulsion.
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