You, Too can Sell Your 3D Digital Art for Millions! Maybe!
Sevrin
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So this happened. Some language
https://cryptobriefing.com/digital-art-auction-raises-record-million/
Some people have been making LOTS of money in crypto recently, and some of them decided to burn a little on NFTs for digital artwork.
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That guy servered his time, and had given a lot to the community beforehand: fair dos.
I don't even understand what this is... is it like a small digital picture frame that only displays one picture? Is it just "traditional" (static) digital art, it does it do something (like move or something)?
Im gonna have to Google this... his packaging looked top notch haha
It's a digital frame that can be static or moving/animated. But what makes the thing unique is that all "drops" on website are limited editions, they ship with their own unique number/barcode/blockchain and some goodies where you can prove you have the "original copy" with your phone app and such, and packaging is super nice. It makes it a collectible and value as such rises overtime, as what you have gets harder and harder to get (think collecting pops or similar products, after a while they're pricey because certain models don't get made anymore).
Further on, far as the crypto idea goes on the particular site where this is happening, you can buy your limited copy for say $100, and then you can put it back on sale/auction for a bigger price. It changes hands and every time it's sold again the original artist still gets % of sales, so it's alive as long as it sells and bids keep coming.
I've been following this lately and I'm fascinated with the success of the project and it truly seems like the future of collecting digital art with all the proper rights attached to it. Of course marketing success can completely be assigned to beeple himself, as he's been doing these everyday renders for many years now and he's taking on himself to advertise this which had it blow up beyond any expectation overnight.
Fun stuff.
Another of my favorite 3D artists, Blake Kathryn, auctions some exclusive stuff through SuperRare. One really interesting one was an untextured clay version of her Seven Sirens piece.
I'm always kind of stoked to see beeple's work blow up because his attitude toward producing 3D art helped convince me I could do it. TBH everyone should get a cool million bucks to learn how to make whatever's in their head for as long as they want to.
What happened to that guy that sold ads by the pixel on a banner ad in the mid to late 90s (I think, maybe early 2000s before 2003) that made millions on that ad?
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Anyone remember back in the 70's (?) the guy who became a millionaire by selling "Pet Rocks"? At some point you gotta wonder how many people wake up the next day and look in the mirror and say "I paid how much for this??"
Nowadays stuff gets viral and this happens more and more often. I suspect a lot of people will be learning some very hard lessons.
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I think it is all about the personality of the creator, mostly.
I was not aware of that, very interesting.
Pet rocks sold for USD 3.95, not thousands of dollars.
Whee NFT tokens for art. pointless and apparently use as much engergy for running my laptop for the next two thousand years
Well that's certainly eye-opening. Thanks for the link.
That is quite the video thumbnail, lol. Looks like he got a little too close to an overheating cryptomining rig.
I still don't understand how crypto-art works. With stuff like bitcoin it's easy to grasp because a bitcoin only exists on the blockchain. But digital art can't possibly exist only a blockchian because the creator still has all their assets used for production on their computer. What's stopping Beeple from hitting "Render" and recreating the same 100 000$ piece all over again?
It's like a lot of crypto, and fiat currency, for that matter, not to mention tupip bulbs in another era. Faith. People agree to believe that the thing has value, and there you go. The value of a U.S.Dollar is based on the "full faith and credit" of the U.S. Government, and crypto-whatever isn't different. I mean you get a nice thing with an NFT thing, but yeah, you gotta believe. And you gotta not care that it's killing the planet, I guess.
Maybe Disney? Not only did he use Buzz Light Year, Mickey Mouse etc. but he used them in what Disney might consider offensive and degrading to their product (porn violence etc). He did it to make people laugh but Disney may not be smiling. But, the packaging & box-branding of the product was absolutely amazing. If disney does sue it won't be just Mike Winkleman.
i dont think theres a million waiting for me for my art.
my art cant even get a vote in the carrara challenges.
tho one my scribbles made a couple thousand on amazon. did the cover with poser 7
It's not about "good". It's about viral hype and excitement. Nothing rational about it.
Anyone remember Andy Warhol?
But now it happens on a global scale, in seconds.
Yea, when the Nyan Cat sells for over $450,000 dollars, and there are like billions of that image across the internet...I think it's sad people really have nothing better to do with their money.
Nyan Cat is being sold as a one-of-a-kind piece of crypto art - The Verge
It's what makes the world go 'round...
New and different is fun and exciting. People will pay anything for fun and exciting.
Grimes is also sellimg digital art on Blockchain
The collector is buying the fact that he won't, basically. They're not purchasing a render of the art, they're purchasing "this is now in your collection and I won't recreate it." Artists participating in this are often doing it as an experimental statement against the disposability of digital art; everybody knows you can just reproduce a file of whatever they've made and torrent it. So it's an agreement between the collector and the artist to treat this digital art as having the same individual value as a physical sculpture or painting. I just wish they'd exchange real cash instead of dystopian monopoly money. :P There has been a recent call by people in that community to stop selling art that way until crypto cleans up its act, but I'm not sure that's actually possible for it to do.
Character adopts in fandom-adjacent art circles are a similar deal in a lot of ways, actually. Within that culture there is an agreement to treat the transaction as the purchase of a bespoke character design, with certain rights to use the included images. And in much the same way, it took off because artists got tired of having their work stolen and came up with a legitimate channel for selling it. This attracted collectors, who love the idea of being able to own a one-of-a-kind design from a character artist. Then those people often commission more art of the character from other artists, which can increase the value of the character on resale.
Anyone at any time can just go and take character art from someone's Toyhou.se account and use it--but they'd risk being blacklisted by the community they want to engage with.
How is this a "fact"? It might be possible that he "can't", if all work files and their backups have been deleted, which is impossible to verify, and if he did he'd get in some kind of trouble, I guess, maybe, unless he calls it performance art, but there are no "facts" what someone "will" or "won't" do in the future, other than the dying part. It's a matter of faith, like everything else in cryptoland.
I'll rephrase it to "buying the promise that he won't." :D And yeah, it's a matter of faith. The artist is staking their reputation, but also there's no value for a second collector if it's just a copy of the original. Whenever someone buys one of these things it seems like there's a social song and dance around it, like "Wow, look at the turntable render of this rad 3D widget I just bought! It was made by @artistname!" and the artist retweets it and goes, "Yay! Thank you for buying my work!" (Honestly, a lot of the smaller transactions look like friends buying each other's stuff.) If you got a secret second version, you don't get to show it off and you don't get to claim ownership. Or at least if you did, the existence of two copies would become obvious pretty fast.
A person buying a second version of the exact same thing gets nothing, because the entire thing falls apart if both parties don't agree that the value rests in having exclusive ownership.
u no doze NFT? pplz r steeling dem!
Hackers stole NFTs from Nifty Gateway users - The Verge