3D Avatars of all the Moonbirds
- 50000
- Trademark requested
3D avatars of each of the 10,000 Moonbirds according to their traits, in the VRM file format to enable the holders and the brand to make content like never before. The 3D avatars will be optimized for web-based applications and fully rigged. Some ways to use them will be: videocalls, gaming, metaverse, vtubing and content creation in general.
About the project
3D avatars of each of the 10,000 Moonbirds according to their traits, in the VRM file format to enable the holders and the brand to make content like never before. The 3D avatars will be optimized for web-based applications and fully rigged. Some ways to use them will be: videocalls, gaming, metaverse, vtubing and content creation in general.
Mission alignment
- Create experiences or products which directly benefit holders
- Promote the Moonbirds and Mythics brand beyond web3
- Elevate Moonbirds and Mythics within the web3 community
Community backers
What is it?
We want to develop optimized and rigged 3D avatars in the VRM format (we can do FBX and GLB too) for all 10,000 Moonbirds, so that they can be used for anything from gaming and metaverse to content creation, vtubing and video calls. This would unlock so many content possibilities for the Moonbirds, using an interoperable avatar format and leveraging all the available platforms supporting it already, allowing for seamless transition from one to the other, bringing the digital identity of the Moonbirds everywhere. The VRM format is supported by most vtubing applications, many content creation applications and many metaverse platforms, you can find applications that support VRM on https://vrm.dev/en/vrm/vrm_applications.html and https://vipe.io/utilities. One of our avatar development teams, experienced with delivering 3D avatars for 2D PFPs will complete this project. An immediate integration that would be done as the Moonbirds 3D avatars are delivered is integrating with Nifty Island, an amazing web3 game where you’ll be able to play with your custom Moonbird avatar.
How does it benefit the Moonbirds and Mythics holder community?
Real immediate utility for the holders and the brand, 3D avatars unlock content creation and digital identity to a whole new level beyond what 2D PFPs can. The whole IP will get a push forward with the ability to do so many things that weren't possible before. The holders will be able to use their avatars in more ways they ever could with the original 2D.
About the team
We’re the teams at Polygonal Mind (https://www.polygonalmind.com/) and VIPE (https://vipe.io/). We’re a creative studio. We’ve been developing virtual worlds and avatars since 2015. We started getting into what is now called “metaverse” in 2018 with VRChat and Decentraland and since then we’ve delivered more than 200 projects for brands and companies in more than 15 different platforms, from web3-native ones like The Sandbox, OnCyber, Spatial or Hyperfy to web2 platforms like Roblox, Zepeto, Fortnite or VRChat. On the avatar development side, when we were doing avatars for individuals for VRChat in 2018 and 2019 we realized that combining 3d avatars and NFTs made a lot of sense to be able to verify things like who created an avatar or who is the actual owner of it. We started CryptoAvatars, a marketplace and minting tools for 3D avatars as NFTs, and in Sept 2020 we created the first 3D avatar collection in Ethereum, also called CryptoAvatars. Along the way we’ve delivered the 3D avatar version for each of the tokens of multiple 2D PFP projects like Broadside, Avastars, Omnimorphs or Bookers while also developing our own projects like VIPE Heroes. We started using the VRM format back in 2019 and have an in-house team in our offices with high expertise on developing full collections and assembling them together. We’re also the only non-Japanese member of the VRM Consortium, the org developing and promoting this standard that is widely used, see CryptoAvatars in the member list.
Product strategy
Assessing the Moonbirds collection, its complexity, number of avatars and number of traits, we’re confident we can produce it in 8 to 10 weeks. Our way of approaching these developments is always divided in these stages: get a couple of full avatars produced to verify aesthetics and feel, produce every single trait in 3D separately, assembly into the trait combinations of the collection, quality assurance and delivery/distribution. For collections that have upgradeable contracts we can offer support to update the metadata to include the new avatars, for collections where it’s not possible we still offer onboarding them into the VIPE platform so that holders can access their avatars. Since Moonbirds is cc0, we’d provide free access to them.
What are the risks?
If anything, it’s mainly about helping people understand all the different things having 3D avatars unlocks for a community. Immediately you upgrade from having the utility of using it as a profile picture to being able to use it in so many metaverse and gaming platforms, use it as yourself for vtubing and videocalls or making content in general with it. So making people aware of the possibilities is key, and the risk is not communicating this properly. For that, in our platform we try to make available as much knowledge as possible around the possibilities of 3D optimized+rigged avatars. We count with plenty of resources to help everyone realise the new things they'll be able to do with their avatars.
What will the money actually be spent on? Do you expect any other money to come in related to this project, e.g. revenues?
This would pay for the team involved in producing and delivering the 3D avatars. We’ll assign one of our character art teams, a rigger, an animator and a 3D programmer to the project. This is all in-house on-site. This is an experienced team that has done this type of delivery many times before, our internal processes are already created so we don’t need to figure out how to make the 10,000 avatars, we’ll simply do it. Additionally, if the community is interested, we’d like to make proposals for the Moonbirds: Mythics and also produce custom Moonbirds guides on their 3D avatars. The budget is pretty tight for the team that will be involved but we really want to see the 10k Moonbirds come to life as 3D avatars and unlock a million new possibilities.