Animation concept art: Cacao with parachute

Cacao pod with parachute

One of the fun things about a story set in a fantasy setting, is that you get to do a lot of world-building, creating all the elements that make up the environment of the characters.

This goes beyond just the houses and streets they walk around in of course, and can go as far as you want. Here, I've created a cacao bean the way they exist in the world of "Robots and Chocolates". The cacao farmers of Farine have grown a kind of cacao tree where the pods fall down with a natural kind of parachute, made of leave-like material. This is necessary in Farine, because of the steep mountainous terrain. Sometimes the cacao beans will float down for a long time, past people's windows as their houses in Farine are built on steep cliffs.

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