November Recap: Big Updates and Bold Collaborations

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Daniel Volkov
December 03, 2024

TL;DR: 

  • Product Updates: New Dynamic Art Engine recipes include Mouse-Mapped Opacity, Video Toggle, and Adaptive Aspect Ratios. The Lab updates make minting and managing your art smoother than ever with Batch Uploads, a streamlined Action Bar, and an improved Mint Page creation flow.

  • Collaborations include ClownVamp’s “The Junk Machine” (sold out!), Joe Pease’s “everything vs nothing” (373.71 ETH auction), DeeKay’s DeePles Halloween Items & 1/1 Suits, Rich Caldwell’s “Canvas” (available now), EgoDead’s “The Collective Consciousness” (available now), and Jeremy Booth’s “Lost in Moffat County” (only one 1/1 left).

  • Postino: Updated features include hiding unminted stamps, prompt reuse, and better postmark clarity.

  • Media: Watch our livestream recordings on YouTube, explore the Come Together exhibition, and check out our interview with TrueDrew.

Product Updates: 

We’re always working to enhance your creative journey with new tools and seamless workflows. This month, we’re excited to share the latest updates to The Dynamic Art Engine and The Lab—designed to make creating and managing your art easier, faster, and more inspiring than ever.

The Dynamic Art Engine 🌈

Imagine art that evolves, reacts, or tells a story in real time—that’s the magic of the Dynamic Art Engine (DAE). As a no-code platform, DAE lets creators design artworks that shift over time, respond to user interactions, or even adapt to real-world environments, all without needing technical expertise. The possibilities are endless; get started with one of the twelve customizable "Recipes" (templates). 

What’s New This Month?
We've added exciting new Recipes to expand your creative toolkit:

  • Mouse-Mapped Opacity: Create pieces where two artworks respond to your mouse's or touch's position, offering viewers a playful, dynamic interaction.

  • Click Toggle for Videos: Toggle seamlessly between multiple videos within a single artwork.

  • Utility Dynamic Concept for HTML: Are you struggling to ensure your art is displayed as you intended? This Recipe allows your artwork to adapt dynamically to various aspect ratios. The piece will assess its display environment and load the most visually fitting version, ensuring a perfect presentation every time—all in one artwork.

Ready to Get Started? DM us for personalized guidance or to schedule a call for tailored support on your next project.

The Lab: Smarter, Faster, Simpler 🧪

We’ve added new features to make The Lab more intuitive. Here’s what’s new:

  • Streamlined Action Bar: Everything you need, all in one place. Whether you’re minting tokens, creating Mint Pages, or managing collections, we’ve centralized the tools so you can focus on your art, not on navigation.

  • 50MB Upload Limit: Say goodbye to long loading times and clunky uploads. With a new 50MB limit for images and GIFs, your assets will upload faster, ensuring a smoother experience for you and your collectors. This also guarantees optimal display quality, showcasing your art as it’s meant to be seen.

  • Simplified Mint Page Flow for Editions: We’ve removed confusing steps from the process—creating an edition mint page is now easier than ever.

  • Batch Uploads: Upload multiple assets in one go, saving you time and effort.

Sneak Peeks:

Auction Pages are coming soon!

Something Special is Coming...

The season of giving is upon us, and we’re working on something extraordinary with TLx. While we can’t reveal all the details yet, let’s say it’s our way of giving back to the incredible community that fuels our creativity. Stay tuned—you won’t want to miss this.

Collaborations:

ClownVamp’s “The Junk Machine” brought a playful yet critical lens to AI’s role in advertising. This quirky, pink robot generated live, one-of-a-kind “junk mail” ads, blending surreal humor with sharp commentary on the biases embedded in AI-generated content. Debuting at a solo show in Marfa, TX (Nov 14-17 at Do Right Hall), the project featured 222 curated pieces at stunning 12K resolution. We collaborated with ClownVamp to design a custom mint experience, ensuring a seamless launch for the collection, which quickly sold out!

Joe Pease’s “everything vs nothing” explored the depths of introspection through a stunning collection of 30 1/1/X video artworks. Presented in collaboration with Glitch Gallery, the exhibition broke away from traditional platform models, focusing on storytelling that elevates digital art and crypto culture. The auctions, hosted on a custom-built site we created, featured 30 simultaneous auctions and attracted 131 unique bidders who placed 469 bids. The collection closed with a remarkable 373.71 ETH ($1,150,000 USD).

Rich Caldwell’s “Canvas” transforms his love for aerial photography into a stunning generative art collection of 500 pieces. Rich captured hidden patterns in everyday landscapes and used the Dynamic Art Engine to create fully responsive artworks that automatically adapt to any screen. Launched on November 7, “Canvas” celebrates the world's beauty from above, blending vibrant palettes, geometric themes, and years of creative vision into a new perspective. Collect a piece today!

EgoDead’s “The Collective Consciousness” bridges the digital and physical realms, exploring the profound themes of ego death and interconnectedness. Each NFT corresponds to a unique physical tile from a 102 x 82-inch abstract canvas, offering collectors a tangible connection to the artwork’s greater whole. Using the Dynamic Art Engine, the collection delivers an interactive experience for the digital works: typing “dead” reveals the entire canvas as one unified piece. At the same time, “ego” shifts the view back to an individual tile, mirroring the movement between collective awareness and personal identity. The physical tiles are embedded with T.R.A.C.E. chips, adding a provenance layer and seamlessly bringing the physicals onchain. Collect a piece today!

Postino transforms stamps into creative, AI-generated collectibles that tell stories and spark connections. Simply type a prompt, and Postino brings it to life as a digital stamp with a unique location-based postmark. Mint, trade, and share these endlessly customizable keepsakes.
We’ve rolled out exciting updates to make your Postino experience even better:

  • Hide Unminted Stamps: Keep your workspace tidy by hiding unminted stamps, which you can unhide later.

  • Prompt Reuse: Easily reuse prompts from past stamp generations for new creations.

  • Generation Count and Postmark Clarity: Now, you can see how many generations you have left before minting is required, as well as the postmark date in UTC, to understand your time zone better.

Jeremy Booth’s “Lost in Moffat County” captures the rugged beauty of the American West, blending stunning landscapes with dynamic storytelling. Released on MakersPlace, this groundbreaking series features four 1/1 HTML tokens created with the Dynamic Art Engine. Each artwork transitions seamlessly between day and night palettes, synced to the collector’s local timezone, and includes hidden easter eggs unlocked by tapping the artwork. Debuted during a solo exhibition in Marfa, TX, the collection celebrates Booth’s first use of dynamic tokens. Only one 1/1 piece, “Cowboy Luck,” remains available.

DeeKay’s Deeple’s Halloween Items + 1/1 Suits: This Halloween, DeeKay brought spooky fun to the DeePleVerse with limited-time items available for just 24 hours on October 31st. Adding to the excitement, DeeKay introduced 1/1 Suits—legendary transformations with unique names and lore. The first wave was airdropped to top collectors, celebrating their support and making them standout legends in the DeePleVerse. 

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