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Hello! I've made over forty Flash films since 2000 for Fark, CampChaos, National Lampoon, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and of course, you fine folks right here on Newgrounds.

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Retarded Animal Babies NFTs?!

Posted by Dave - March 26th, 2021


Hello!


Are any other Newgrounds creators making NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) for their properties? Just curious. I've extremely new to crypto-anything and thought it might be worth looking into, what with that Beeple fellow doing so well and all. It might behoove many a digital artist to get on this gravy train, or it might be a stupendous waste of time and money! Hooray!


I started a collection page at OpenSea here: https://opensea.io/collection/retarded-animal-babies-the-definitive-episode-nft


If you or anyone you know is interested in NFTs, check it out. My plan is to create massive JPG files featuring 666 screenshots (of course) from each episode, measuring 666x420 each (of course), and assemble them into 18x37 mosaics for a 666 DPI (of course) file. It took a bit of programming assistance from a buddy of mine, but the result is definitely... something.


Anyway, just looking for some opinions about this bonkers bullshit, and to see if anyone else here has looked into it themselves. Cheers!!


--Dave

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Very strange, decided to boot up my old newgrounds account that I haven't properly looked at in at least a decade and see that one of my favourite animators at the time posted only a few hours ago, hope everything is going great for you Dave! Apologies, I know this is a bit off topic from the NFTs but I had to just pop in and say hello lol

Cheers! Things are pretty good. Still broke but feeling happy overall.

Holy crap... Your old series was a guilty pleasure of mine a few years ago. Kinda cool to see an old legend(?) pop back in here.
On the topic of NFT's, I'm hopeful but skeptical about their potential.
I'm all for any methods, technologies, and tools that can give more power to the artists (places like YouTube and Spotify are severely lacking in that regard...). I don't want to be a complete cynic about the prospect of NFT's, but I also wanna be careful with my expectations (tempered optimism, essentially).

This when the right to retribute original flash animation cell containing Weird Al form an authorized song comes in handy. Seriously you should be talking to your equally famous past clients about these kinds of opportunities while think of way to cross promote your own characters.
Personally I find the idea absurd that rare pepe memes can actually be, well, sold as rare digital art; however, youtube was gold mine for some till it started demonetizing, so if you've got the fan base then do it. Make your money before the retards try to stop you.