I haven't been writing or releasing as much content over the last couple of months, and there is a BIZARRE reason for it! The BizarreBeasts ($BB) project is making a massive shift in business, creation, and upcoming content, and I have been HIGHLY focused on preparing for this next phase.
After two years of BIZARRE building in the early mornings, nights, and weekends, and with the validation and support of Decentralized Pictures (DCP), I’ve decided to go ALL-IN on creating BizarreBeasts.
At the end of February 2026, I left my senior business development role at a global data company to focus full-time on my creative vision! This year, my sole purpose will be to grow BizarreBeasts, scale the business, relocate the studio to a new city (more details to follow in my next update!), and produce the BizarreBeasts animated series.
I've been an artist my entire life, aspiring to create my own cartoons since I was a kid. Throughout my career, I've explored various creative pursuits across many disciplines. For the past two years, I've built BizarreBeasts in my available time in the early mornings and late nights: creating artwork, publishing content, learning how to leverage AI as my copilot to build miniapps and games, advancing my education through professional certifications in blockchain technology, and illustrating the BizarreBeasts characters and universe.
The project has a dedicated social community and token holder base, and in December 2025, DCP awarded BizarreBeasts the $100,000 Arts3 Startup Award. What started as ideas in my sketchbook has finally evolved past what I could build on the side and demands my full attention.
To meet the scale of this vision, the BIZARRE team is also expanding. I’m incredibly excited to share that Kate, my incredibly talented and beautiful wife, has joined the BizarreBeasts production team!
She is a core part of the studio’s operations and creating the series, handling sound design, music composition, directing, co-writing, and helping manage our aggressive production schedule and creative output as we transition into this next chapter.
I know... The markets are down, conflict is up, and the world seems to be getting more and more chaotic... But now more than ever, I am inspired to share creativity and joy through art, games, and animation. I have been compiling the skills and am highly motivated to take BizarreBeasts from where we are today to a globally recognized entertainment brand. I am purpose-driven and passionate about building THIS project, and I am EXCITED for the evolution ahead.
For the last three months, I've been inside the BizarreBeasts Animation Studio, building foundational tools and developing artwork for the upcoming BizarreBeasts series on DCP+.
The BizarreBeasts animated series is the most ambitious, rewarding, and BIZARRE thing I've built in my career, and a true demonstration of my mission as a CREATOR!
I keep a production log of everything Kate and I do for the project. In the last two months alone, we have logged over 1,100 total production hours creating, building, writing, and recording:
375 hours — Art & Design: Character rigging, environment builds, sprite sheets, and high-res assets.
323 hours — Custom Coding: Building the parallax systems, scene builders, weather engines, and workshop tools for scalable environment creation.
230 hours — Music & Sound Design: Theme songs, Learning Lab tracks, and custom SFX scoring.
166 hours — Production Planning: Pipelines, workflows, production documents, scene layouts, and library management.
128 hours — Writing: Scripts, beat sheets, storyboards, prop sheets, sound cue sheets, and character bios.
66 hours — Voice-Over: Recording sessions and character voice casting.
The BizarreBeasts animation studio is a custom-created platform that I've built to scale the business and content production in a whole new way.
When I say the studio is in Production BEAST Mode, I mean a fully functional, animation ecosystem:
Characters are alive. Jasper, Cecil, Hans, Angus, Cornelia, and Benny are rigged and ready, with more characters in process. They walk, dance, cook, and drink coffee. Seymour Sun is chatting it up with Monety Moon. We just wrapped a heavy recording session for Angus this weekend for Mini-Episode 2, getting a head start on the production pipeline while we finalize Mini-Episode 1.
The city is built. I’ve illustrated and created 2,100+ building sprites, 30 buses, and 22 city landmarks and special environments. All available for use in the custom BizarreBeasts Scene Builder. Bizarre City now features 12 parks, a central pond, a transit system, and a dynamic parallax weather engine that cycles through Seymour Sun and Monety Moon sequences across the skyline.
The tooling is custom. To scale BizarreBeasts this year, I built a full suite of custom creation tools:
The City Planner and Exterior/Interior Scene Builders.
The Workshops: Plants and Foliage, Sky, Building Customization, and Color Palettes.
The Environment Parallax System for HD animation. Everything runs on systems I built to ensure a unique visual style and scalable production.
Fully connected systems so that the workshops, asset libraries, color palettes, and the created content are consistent and replicable.
We’ve been compiling footage from inside the studio. Check out the first four installments of BizarreBeasts BTS:
Episode 1 — "Behind-the-Scenes" The framework. Character rigging, the first look at Bizarre City, and the weather engine going online.
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Episode 2 — "Bizarre City: Loading..." The shift from building pieces to producing scenes. Full script recordings and the Bizarre Buses rolling through the streets.
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Episode 3 — "Bizarre City: Expanding..." The world gets BIG. 12 parks, a locked theme song, and daily-life sequences (Hans sipping coffee, Cecil shredding guitar).
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Episode 4 — "Full-Scale Production BEAST Mode" Where we are right now. Dynamic parallax skies, final color palettes, and a raw look at the Bizarre Lab. Plus, a sneaky peaky of Hans and Cecil hanging in the kitchen. 😆
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In the coming weeks, (in addition to releasing animated content) I’ll be publishing deep dives into the BIZARRE tooling: the assets, the workflows, and the systems that I have built with my artwork and Claude AI to make this possible. Expect major updates to the BizarreBeasts miniapp alongside our animation drops on DCP+.
I am refining the business model to SCALE and GROW, building something that has never existed before, and I am excited to share the BIZARRE journey with you.
Make sure to follow Decentralized Pictures (DCP) for more exciting updates about BizarreBeasts animated content AND the future of independent entertainment.
Decentralized Pictures (DCP) is a nonprofit organization founded by Roman Coppola, Leo Matchett, and Michael Musante. DCP operates a community-powered, onchain platform that supports emerging filmmakers through transparent, community-voted funding and a circular creative economy. DCP+, the foundation's forthcoming streaming platform, is designed around fairness, transparency, and creative ownership for independent creators.
The A3 Startup Award is DCP's flagship creator grant, awarded in partnership with the Arts3 Foundation. BizarreBeasts is a 2025 recipient of the $100,000 A3 Startup Award.
Learn more at decentralized.pictures.
I'm the artist, animator, and builder behind BizarreBeasts ($BB), creating a universe where art and web3 technology converge. This is where everything I am intersects: a lifelong artist captivated by darkly humorous outsider art, a creative entrepreneur, a self-taught builder who coded 12 original games and a fully onchain miniapp from scratch, a musician performing original soundtracks, and a true BIZARRE believer in decentralized creativity.
This project was born from a vision of what's possible when an artist fully owns their creative universe, exploring the opportunities and economies that web3 enables to build a legacy of creativity and freedom for myself and the BizarreBeasts community.
In early 2026, I walked away from a six-figure corporate job to build BizarreBeasts full-time. BizarreBeasts is an Arts3 Foundation A3 Startup Award recipient, earning $100K in funding for an original animated series currently in production for release on DCP+, the streaming platform from Decentralized Pictures. That's BIZARRE!
BizarreBeasts is an original, art-powered ecosystem featuring hand-illustrated characters, animations, NFTs, and web3 games. With 12 games played over 183,000 times, hitting #1 trending on both Remix and The Base App, I've built a notorious community of 6,800+ token holders going BIZARRE.
Token info:
Ticker: $BB
CA: 0x0520bf1d3cEE163407aDA79109333aB1599b4004
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