Skunkworks Awards

Skunkworks Awards

Skunkworks Awards

A compact visual system around dimensional tokens, awards, and motion-led identity.

A compact visual system around dimensional tokens, awards, and motion-led identity.

A compact visual system around dimensional tokens, awards, and motion-led identity.

CLIENT

OpenSea

ROLE

Motion / Collectible Design

YEAR

2024

CATEGORY

Launch Worlds

What mattered.

What mattered.

What mattered.

Built a collectible visual language for internal recognition and community energy. The brief was to take an 8-bit skunk avatar and create a commemorative NFT for the company's internal awards. There were minimal rules, so I took it into the 3d/motion space.

Built a collectible visual language for internal recognition and community energy. The brief was to take an 8-bit skunk avatar and create a commemorative NFT for the company's internal awards. There were minimal rules, so I took it into the 3d/motion space.

Built a collectible visual language for internal recognition and community energy. The brief was to take an 8-bit skunk avatar and create a commemorative NFT for the company's internal awards. There were minimal rules, so I took it into the 3d/motion space.

Tools used.

Tools used.

Tools used.

Blender • Voxel Editor • Adobe After Effects • Adobe Illustrator

Blender • Voxel Editor • Adobe After Effects • Adobe Illustrator

Blender • Voxel Editor • Adobe After Effects • Adobe Illustrator

Rebuilding the 2D skunk head in a voxel editor and then skinning and rendering the model in Blender.

Lock-up using different families of Druk with an example of the glitched scrolling banners for use on the multitudes of screens located within the OpenSea offices.

Stills from the glitch-frames on each unique award; using analog-like TV effects, data-moshing, slitscanning, and displacement filters.

Detail page view of the Skunkworks NFTs with banner art from the lobby typography. Eventhough this was only meant to be for digital redemption, the IT guy hired a vendor to create physical awards to dispense to attendees.