jackmaschkaAnatomy of a Bean
Let’s breakdown the anatomy of a Bean. There are no ‘if’ statements or other rules governing Bean trait scarcity, which makes all Beans equally rare.Class TypeEach Bean is assigned two classes. Class 1 Class 2 These are determined by the color that they generate. (There are a total of 18 colors). Classes also determine the placement of the colors on the bean and on the background.All 324 possible class combinationsTraitsEach Bean generates two traits. 1 Helmet (126) 1 Gear (86) These traits a...
jackmaschkaBeans DAO FAQ & Development Update
Wtf is Beans?Our shared mission is to proliferate everything Beans although most importantly it’s about having fun. We aim to build a universe where everything is built and discovered with the community in addition to the core team. In a technical sense, Beans is an experimental DAO focused on decentralized IP building utilizing CC0 and open-source software. To do this, we’re forking the original Nouns protocol which was the first attempt at bootstrapping identity, community, governance, and ...
jackmaschkaHopes, Dreams, Beans
Welcome to the BeaniverseA spawn of the Nouniverse. I believe the future of crypto will increasingly look and feel nounish. Nouns have helped pave the way for public goods and pioneered all kinds of new infra for creators to explore their own ecosystems. At this point, I’m sure there is a bit of nouns fork fatigue but truthfully I am surprised there aren’t more forks exploring their own characters, brand, and missions. It’s our goal at BEANSDAO to do exactly that while following our own north...
artist | building www.beans.wtf
jackmaschkaAnatomy of a Bean
Let’s breakdown the anatomy of a Bean. There are no ‘if’ statements or other rules governing Bean trait scarcity, which makes all Beans equally rare.Class TypeEach Bean is assigned two classes. Class 1 Class 2 These are determined by the color that they generate. (There are a total of 18 colors). Classes also determine the placement of the colors on the bean and on the background.All 324 possible class combinationsTraitsEach Bean generates two traits. 1 Helmet (126) 1 Gear (86) These traits a...
jackmaschkaBeans DAO FAQ & Development Update
Wtf is Beans?Our shared mission is to proliferate everything Beans although most importantly it’s about having fun. We aim to build a universe where everything is built and discovered with the community in addition to the core team. In a technical sense, Beans is an experimental DAO focused on decentralized IP building utilizing CC0 and open-source software. To do this, we’re forking the original Nouns protocol which was the first attempt at bootstrapping identity, community, governance, and ...
jackmaschkaHopes, Dreams, Beans
Welcome to the BeaniverseA spawn of the Nouniverse. I believe the future of crypto will increasingly look and feel nounish. Nouns have helped pave the way for public goods and pioneered all kinds of new infra for creators to explore their own ecosystems. At this point, I’m sure there is a bit of nouns fork fatigue but truthfully I am surprised there aren’t more forks exploring their own characters, brand, and missions. It’s our goal at BEANSDAO to do exactly that while following our own north...
artist | building www.beans.wtf
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In 2018, before he knew that Beans were Beans, Jack Maschka illustrated a character he couldn’t stop thinking about.
For the next year he continued to explore this character in the margins of his sketchbook between client calls. The style was always changing but the character remained more or less the same.
Sketches, sculptures, and hundreds of storyboards began to be built around this character and the world this character resides in.
From there Jack went on to write, produce, direct, and animate a short film (SEED SUPREME, 2019) starring this character. That production lasted about a year (on and off) between paying gigs.
All the while he began to experiment with other tech like AR in order to further explore this character.
In 2020 Jack began to focus more on short-form work and started to play with other little creatures within that world (Fun fact: this piece was a prototype piece for a collection on Nifty Gateway that never ended up happening).
Early 2021 Jack decided to try his hand at creating an animated collectible around these little creatures in a collection he called Cryptobeanz. All of which were generated by hand with accompanying music. At the time, this was a new thing in the digital collectible space.
The NFT landscape began to change and Jack went back to the drawing board.
What is the best way to carry this character’s legacy on forever?
Then Cryptoadz and Nouns happened and everything clicked. This brings us to 2024. His most ambitious project yet. On-chain. CC0. One a day. It was all a happy accident that Bean eyes are the circular complimentary to Noun eyes.
Stories are the most powerful tools we have as humans. Myths, legends, memes, whatever you want to call them. They’re stories. Characters help move those stories.
Pepe, Bored Apes, Giga Chad, Punks, etc. they’re all characters in society’s story.
This is why proliferation of the character is so important in order to help support the mission.
In 2018, before he knew that Beans were Beans, Jack Maschka illustrated a character he couldn’t stop thinking about.
For the next year he continued to explore this character in the margins of his sketchbook between client calls. The style was always changing but the character remained more or less the same.
Sketches, sculptures, and hundreds of storyboards began to be built around this character and the world this character resides in.
From there Jack went on to write, produce, direct, and animate a short film (SEED SUPREME, 2019) starring this character. That production lasted about a year (on and off) between paying gigs.
All the while he began to experiment with other tech like AR in order to further explore this character.
In 2020 Jack began to focus more on short-form work and started to play with other little creatures within that world (Fun fact: this piece was a prototype piece for a collection on Nifty Gateway that never ended up happening).
Early 2021 Jack decided to try his hand at creating an animated collectible around these little creatures in a collection he called Cryptobeanz. All of which were generated by hand with accompanying music. At the time, this was a new thing in the digital collectible space.
The NFT landscape began to change and Jack went back to the drawing board.
What is the best way to carry this character’s legacy on forever?
Then Cryptoadz and Nouns happened and everything clicked. This brings us to 2024. His most ambitious project yet. On-chain. CC0. One a day. It was all a happy accident that Bean eyes are the circular complimentary to Noun eyes.
Stories are the most powerful tools we have as humans. Myths, legends, memes, whatever you want to call them. They’re stories. Characters help move those stories.
Pepe, Bored Apes, Giga Chad, Punks, etc. they’re all characters in society’s story.
This is why proliferation of the character is so important in order to help support the mission.
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