Dear Nouners,
Our first proposal! I’ve been digging in here and in Discord (Matto#1231) and very much appreciate the warm welcome so far. Thank you for taking a look at this and sharing your feedback, tips for iteration or anything else you care to!
Best,
Matto
“WTF are Nouns?” Nouns overview explainer animation
Created by: Thousand Ant v1 - 4/28/2022
TLDR: We’re asking for 20 ETH to create a 3-5 minute animated video which provides a fun, concise and stylish overview of the Nouns protocol to help people quickly understand the core ideas.
Proposal Objective
- To provide a framework that details the scope of work and commercial terms to be submitted to the Nouns DAO proposal process
Goal
Nouns DAO seeks to proliferate the Nouns meme. One challenge to proliferation is understanding. By creating a concise, stylish and informative animation we can give interested folks a quick way to understand the project.
About The Team: Thousand Ant
Thousand Ant is an agency with a focus on realtime 3D and game development. We work with clients like Unity Technologies, Google, Microsoft and JuiceboxDAO to help them create games, animations and educational content to inspire developers and creators.
Matto (aka Matt Schell) is the Managing Director of Thousand Ant and a generative artist working with code, real-time visuals and procedural audio. He’s released music for respected labels like Warp Records and also formerly served as the global head of online evangelism for Unity Technologies. He is a member of the Friends With Benefits DAO and is a community contributor to web3 projects including Crypts and Caverns, Terraforms by Mathcastles. Thousand Ant has recently released our own first NFT collection Hypercastle Explorers, a project which is building a game engine SDK for Terraforms.
Suspicious Seaweed (aka Tom Schell) is the head of operations for Thousand Ant and the Chief JPEG Officer at OfferbotDAO.
Some of our relevant video and animation work can be found here.
Project Phases
Phase 1: Briefing, Proposal and Voting
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Initial discussions to explore proposal viability in Nouns Discord #proposal-ideas channel by Matto#1231
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Thousand Ant shares proposal on Discourse for feedback
- Nouns community reviews, feeds back and votes on proposal
- Proposal is approved
- Scope of work signed
Phase 2: Art Production
- Script brief
- Thousand Ant team gathers script reference materials from Nouns DAO members
- Existing script drafts
- Other marketing materials explaining the project
- Thousand Ant team gathers script reference materials from Nouns DAO members
- Script writing
- Thousand Ant creates a first draft of the video script and shares for feedback
- Nouns community provide comments and edits on script document
- Thousand Ant finalize script draft based on input
- Gather art assets
- Thousand Ant sources existing art assets from Nouns community
- Nouns NFT pixel art images
- 3D noun models from various extension projects
- 2D derivative noun images
- Existing nounish animations and drawings
- Storyboard
- Thousand Ant to provide storyboard which will convey basic beats of the video, shot framings and an idea of camera movement based on script and approved concepts
- Nouns community to provide feedback on storyboard
- Thousand Ant revises storyboard based on input
- Storyboard finalized
- Voice over recording
- Thousand Ant suggest voiceover artists, gather community input
- Record finalized script voiceover
- Music creation
- Thousand Ant provides a musical mood board / playlist of stylistic references for community input
- Thousand Ant composer creates 3 original musical sketches and shares for community input
- One musical sketch selected for final arrangement, mixing and video scoring
- Animatic creation
- Thousand Ant provides rough blockout / animatic with voiceover and rough music for review
- Nouns community provides feedback on animatic
- Thousand Ant revises based on feedback
- Animatic finalized
- Final Animation Creation
- Thousand Ant creates final animation and music based on finalized animatic
Phase 4: Review and Delivery
- Complete draft of animation shared for Nouns community review
- Thousand Ant incorporates community feedback into final animation
- Final animation video render delivered for publishing
- Assets open sourced
- All video source materials made available under CC0 license for creation of future Nouns related projects including:
- Video footage
- musical parts
- animation files
- All video source materials made available under CC0 license for creation of future Nouns related projects including:
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Final project delivered
Revisions
- Up to 2 revisions per asset
Timeline
- Approximately 9 Weeks from signing of SOW
Payment Terms
- 50% at signing of SOW and 50% on delivery and approval of final deliverable.
- 20 ETH
Next Step
- Thousand Ant to post proposal for voting via Discourse