Some worlds begin with words on paper, a screenplay, a notes app... BizarreBeasts began with a sketch. What started as one artist's hand-drawn outsider creatures slowly turned into a full onchain universe: a community, a token, mini-games, comics, music, and now BizarreBeasts is the first place recipient of the DCP Award for Base Creators! A new chapter is on the horizon: short animated films bringing BIZARRE worlds to life. BizarreBeasts is one of the strongest examples of what creator-own...

As a creator, inspiration often strikes at the most random of times... sometimes, it manifests as one isolated sentence you leave in your notes app, waiting to be contextualized into existence. That's how Dana Never Had a Brother began."Since college, I’ve kept a notes tab on my phone for stray inspiration— dreams I remembered, out-of-context sentences, random visuals I wanted to recreate someday," said Destinee McCaster, writer and director of Dana Never Had a Brother. "One of those half-sen...