Project title: NEARCH4N (using a 4 for now because I’m planning to upgrade to sputnik v2 soon) One-liner: Bring NEARCH4N to life through community input and artist commissions. Inspired by the crypto-currency-girls.com (inactive) and somethingchans.fandom.com Project DAO: nearch4n.sputnikdao.near Challenge area or bounty: NFT Onboarding! NEARCHAN will give everyone a friendly welcome Slides: TBD
Project members
staRpauSe (starpause.near)
shep (sheepgod.near)
Maybe YOU?!
Project summary
NEARCH4N DAO will help with character design choices to ensure NEARCHAN is 100% authentic to the community (even if she’s not an official mascot).
DAO will also finalize commission choices and payout artists.
Commissions to bring NEARCHAN to life will be drawings, 3d models, voice actors, cosplayers, and even game developers.
DAO will gain funds from selling NFTs and merch featuring NEARCHAN.
When we move to sputnik v2 we will implement a social token and probably change the name to an A instead of 4.
Other attachments
I’ll be including a mood board and some preliminary character designs. If you have ideas or would like to join please comment below ≧◡≦
Prefer the nightshade visual. BTW, I have an idea: when talking of NEAR, I usually thought about NieR, so maybe NEAR Chan can take some elements from this game. black & white is also NEAR style.
Buster, thanks for your feedback! I’ll add a slide referencing NieR to the character design deck.
Funny you bring NIER up, I created a misspelled NEIR token when tkn.farm launched
Waifutoken.io has taken interest and is leading the charge on an initial character design. They’re a strong partner, out of the the anime projects in the NFT space they are doing things right (original art commissions, keeping things sfw, frequent dev updates). They focus on quality before trends and bandwagon hopping, reminds me of NEAR
We officially welcomed Juanna to the guild this week! She brings a critical eye with deep background in both art and anime. Sitting on the DAO council.
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Updated the deck with more mascot context, leaning into the quirky and kawaii:
I wouldn’t want NEAR-chan to always be chibbi, but thinking about what characteristics would remain if she was reduced down to that simplified form may help focus her design. Special care that when she’s drawn small it’s chibi and not loli.
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Thinking about how the new site design direction could play into her character
Color scheme could go into hair (combined with a no-fuss style, cause NEAR-chan is practicle). It could also tie into some prismatic accessories, I was thinking since she is so friendly to other chains she could wear snap bracelets to give away. Glow stick bracelets could work (and be fun to draw) but going to candy raver bracelets is probably over the naughty edge.
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Rollerblades (so hacker and fast, lines up with near GTM GTD speed)… yah or nah?
In a public taste test GARRID was the preferred choice (17 to 13). This follows our idea of doing wide open public votes on selections of “only good choices” curated by the DAO.
Here are GARRID’s terms and what will be produced:
Artwork Terms:
Front, side, back view of character.
Include some faces/expressions.
No shading is needed, color sketch style.
Non-commercial price for development of a character to inspire the NEAR community and other artists.
Payment Terms:
The payment will be half before and half after
You dont get refunds of the first payment if you want to cancel in the middle
You have refunds of the first payment if GARRID cancel the work
You have free of charge 6 changes chances at sketch phase, before approving the sketch we cant go back
Payment in NEAR at the current cost of NEAR<>USD
Requesting funds for the first half of payment - 52,6 NEAR:
We know that in general DAO do not approve proposals for “creating an NFT.” In this case we are not creating an NFT, but an inspiring character for the community.
