Decentralized Pictures

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...

The Arts3 Foundation Web3 Startup Award #2 (in partnership with CV Summit) is currently live and will be closing soon! This award is intended to accelerate Web3 startups that aim to advance & promote the Arts & Entertainment Industry. The award recipient will receive a $100,000 USD award from the Arts3 Foundation. Let's take a beat and revisit the last award and the top 3 voted projects.1st Place: The Coders RoomThe Coders Room is an international collective of filmmakers and writers with its...

Every so often, a film arrives already humming with its own internal language— a story that feels less written and more remembered. In the Night I Dream is one of those works. Created by British-Nigerian multi-layered artist and director Isioma Idehen, this story was born from dualities it refuses to separate: between England and Nigeria, dreamworld and waking life, fear and faith. What first pulled Isioma into Àdá’s journey wasn't a plot or an image. It was a return. "Àdá’s journey began wit...

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...