I appreciate the sentiment, but artists should be responsible for absolutely nothing further than making art, or we end up in a position of "why should I buy your art? what you offering, what's your roadmap?"
Art, not shitcoin.
I think NFT artists should find ways to benefit existing holders. Stronger bond with the collectors, strengthening the community, and probably better for your future work.
@TsukamotoHideki
is one example of that. Bullish on his newest work, Cypher.
I thought it was probably time I shared a preview of my next drop on ArtBlocks. No date for this one yet, but this is the second part of the 'Origins' series. The follow up to Singularity. It's called 'Fusion'.
Minting some Fusion tests on Rinkeby over at
@artblocks_io
and there's some nice stuff coming back - needs some tweaks to colour variants, saturation and post-effects, but overall I'm pleased.
You lot are amazing, I've never really cared much for social media, but the enthusiasm and support from you all is encouraging and motivating.
As a thank you, I'm going to be air-dropping a new generative series to Singularity holders. Details below.
Happy and excited to have acquired Meridian
#508
by
@mattdesl
- I've wanted a Meridian since mint, and finally decided to pull the trigger. Cannot wait to get it on the wall - the colour in this one is incredible.
During some 'down time' I thought I'd have a crack at some of the
#Genuary2022
prompts but got no further than Day 4 - "The Next Fidenza".
Spent a day down the Houdini rabbit hole. Result below. Even more respect for
@tylerxhobbs
after doing this, Fidenza is so elegant.
More work on Singularity. Refined the depth of field and tone-mapping (from Fusion), and added some volume which I like a lot. I wanted to see how cinematic I could make it look as original Sing (unlike Fusion) was entirely without post-effects - the buffer was just left raw.
Hard to know what to say today. I'm overwhelmed. I have a bazillion tweets and DMs, all of which I'll get to, but a couple of points important points: [THREAD]
One of those tests where it's kind of bittersweet. Pleased that the system can produce something like this, but wish it could have happened after I pressed GENERATE on the 15th.
Final thread on CYPHER.
-Block number will be now be chosen on the day.
-Please consider the launch to be 1PM UTC 15/08.
Short thread on sale logistics below:
This one is
@punk6529
's Level 2.
For the record,
@gmoneyNFT
has convinced me to add these as additional functionality. It's now just a case of working out the process.
I've written this about 5 times now, and every time it comes out like soppy nonsense, so just:
THANKYOU all so much - 2021 completely changed the course of my life. I am absolutely humbled by your endless support for my work.
I assure you 2022 will be MASSIVE.
Apologies for extended radio silence.
I've been off-radar working on a couple of new projects which I'm looking forward to sharing with you in the coming weeks. Stay tuned, and thanks for all your ongoing support and enthusiasm for my work.
A low resolution output of the animation update, paired with the visual update for Singularity. It's doing all kinds of weird shit, but the effect is quite promising, I like the way the 'volume' sort of scans around. Comp and post aren't there yet, but it's decent start I reckon.
I'm excited to announce my latest generative collection 'MONUMENT'
-
A very small collection of very large physical pieces.
Details at the Medium article below.
Maybe vaguely of interest:
Left: Singularity
#263
In its original form.
Right Singularity
#263
rendered by the 'Fusion' code.
Dunno which I prefer to be honest.
I'm excited to announce my latest generative collection!
'IMMORTAL'
-
Exhibited at the
@DigitalArtFair
in Hong Kong, and my first collection through
@MakersPlace
- IMMORTAL is a collection of only 8 generative NFTs available via auction over the course of the event. You can
Amazing work from
@lclmachine
here training a generative model using the entire FUSION collection as input then animating the interpolated output. Keen for a collaboration!
Try this at the FUSION Contract:
1. Go here
2. Paste any hash you like into func. 22 and click 'query'
3. Copy/Paste result into browser address bar.
4. Fusion!
More to come on this.
IMMORTAL SOLD OUT!
—
Thanks to all at
@MakersPlace
for their efforts, to
@DavidAriew
for sharing the ride and extra thanks to
@jmarinaro220
and for setting the whole thing up.
I'm getting asked a lot about the options for some kind of pre-mint for Fusion. auction? priority minting for Singularity holders? pre-mint? That kind of thing, so here's a short thread with my thoughts, inviting yours...
Yep. 10 was me - An adventure into the Apex universe with additive compositing and isometric projection.
Special thanks to
@ricgalbraith
for his words and to
@eli_schein
and all at
@proof_xyz
I shit you not. Filigree is completely astonishing.
On all levels. The light, controlled use of AI, the fleetingly recognisable environments, composition. There is absolutely nothing like this out there.
Thank you for putting this together
@punk6529
I'm honoured to have my work in this space (and at such scale!) Can't wait to see where the community takes OM and to make my contribution.
Some nice test renders coming back, metadata is all in place. We're up on Rinkeby too. Singularity is all falling into place on
@artblocks_io
. Watch this space.
Regarding the TOTALITY drop which was pencilled to take a second snapshot for tomorrow [01.09]. The drawing code is all but done, the distribution tech is almost there, so I hope you can bear with me while we get it finalised and I'll give proper notice before snapshot and drop.
You lot are amazing, I've never really cared much for social media, but the enthusiasm and support from you all is encouraging and motivating.
As a thank you, I'm going to be air-dropping a new generative series to Singularity holders. Details below.
Still here. Bears or no bears.
Apex 2 is now ten months in with a crew of up to half a dozen working hard every day.
I'm convinced this is the most ambitious procedural project of its nature to date. My apologies if that means an absence from socials and Discord.