September 11, 2022

R.O.D.R.160-ABHS

ABHS

NFT, Web-3

A collection commissioned by the ABHS cross-chain project. It depicts a winged R.O.D.R.160, rising up as a cluster of wire hung lightbulbs fall behind him.

A piece in this series was accepted to be shown at NFT.NYC – 2024

supply: 2000 
type: Frames 
storage: IPFS 
chain:  Cardano 
mint price: Free 
status: Sold Out 
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About ABHS

ABHS is an cross-chain project built on Etherium with the intent of introducing the Cardano ecosystem to the existing NFT market (primarily on ETH). 

One of the ways they approached this was by partnering with Cardano artists/projects and releasing custom work for free to ABHS supporters. The collections were typically released as 5-8 Edition artworks of varying rarity (with higher rarity pieces going to the biggest supporters).

This drop was handled a little differently.

Frames

This series (like my other R.O.D.R.160 collections) was released as “frames”. Each of the 2000 NFTs is a unique still-image frame, and put together they create a full animation. 

‘Rarity’ (one of the conditions of the commission) was built into the set with the animations starting simple, and gradually becoming more active as the sequence progresses. The final frames show a golden halo floating down onto R.O.D.R.160’s head and the scattered camera effects also increase towards the end.

“Framed” sets is something I have been exploring since 2021, and I think this series is my best execution so far. Excluding the halo and camera effects, rarity is very subjective. The scene changes linearly, so no frame is actually rarer than any other. 

Additional Media

These pieces obviously make a pretty good phone wallpaper, so I included two additional images in each NFT (main piece on the lock screen and these on the home).