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The project to be shared in the 19th issue of "WaTell's NFT Research" is: KATATONIK.

🎪 Project Twitter:

KATATONIK @Katatonik_nft

https://twitter.com/Katatonik_nft

🎊Total amount of NFTs: 9999

🎊MINT Date: Not yet announced

🎊MINT price: 0.15ETH (WL); 0.25ETH (public sale)

🎊Number of followers on official Twitter: 107k

🎊Discord number: 14k

🎃Project introduction:

In the beginning, the Kats roamed the earth like any other cat. Scratching posts, snorting catnip, and watching apes never really evolve to be much more than boring. The world made SERO ZENSE to them, but they knew their time would come.

But where? After wandering aimlessly for centuries, the Kats finally found serenity in the Metaverse, the only place that makes sense! Their goal? Create a totally pawsome community unlike anything the digital world has ever seen. Now they seek to share the wonders of the metaverse with the entire world.

If this makes sense to you, then you just might have what it takes to hang with the kool Kats. But only if you’re interested in building a powerful, silly, adventurous, and NEW community for generations to come.

KATATONIK is a 3D PFP NFT project on the Ethereum chain. This is a 3D NFT project that requires very high quality and precision, as the project party said: "Since we started this project, our focus has always been It's quality. We're never going to be just a shoddy 3D project that just wants to make a quick buck."

KATATONIK's goal is to become the best 3D/animation project in the NFT world, providing holders with the best artistic experience and enjoyment of rights. The reason why the goal is so ambitious is because KATATONIK has a very strong behind-the-scenes team.

The core team of KATATONIK consists of two people, Liron & JP Sans, who are both co-founders and Lead Artist and Creative Director of KATATONIK. The following is their personal introduction:

Liron is a Director, Supervising Animator and the Animation Department Chair for Dreamworks Animation, one of Hollywood’s biggest studios responsible for movies like Shrek, Madagascar, Megamind, Kung Fu Panda and many others cultural icons. He is also overseeing the animation department's long term technological goals.

Liron, 39, knew since childhood that he wanted to be an animator when he grew up. "At the age of six I asked the kindergarten teacher - What do you call the person who makes cartoons? Since then everything has been very purposeful. I just wanted to know where animated films are made and how I get there," he says.

He graduated with honors from the world renowned Ringling School of Art + Design in Florida, winning the presidents' Award for his thesis film. He was chosen by the American Film Academy to be one of three students sent to intern at Sony Studios, another major player in animation.

Liron started his career at Sony Imageworks as a Character Animator on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. He later moved to DreamWorks Animation where he worked on various franchise projects including Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon and The Croods. He was Character Lead/Supervisor for Master Oogway the turtle, the vicious Deathgrippers dragons, and an adorably quirky prehistoric girl named Dawn.

"Bilby", a short animated film that Liron wrote and directed along with JP Sans and Pierre Perifel, two friends from DreamWorks, was chosen to be the closing film at the highly prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France. The film won the Jury Award at Siggraph Electronic Theater, and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards.

JP Sans is Head of Animation / Animation Director at DreamWorks Animation. He started his career at Blue Sky Studios where he worked on the ‘Ice Age’ franchise and on ‘Rio' where he was one of the leads on Luiz, the bulldog. He then continued his work as an animator at DreamWorks Animation on ‘Rise of the Guardians’ and 'Trolls 2'. He was a Writer/Director on the short film ‘Bilby’ alongside Liron, and is now Head of Character animation on Dreamworks’ upcoming movie, Bad Guys.

“For me, it definitely started with drawing at a very early age, from the moment I picked up a crayon. I was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and like every other kid, I watched a lot of cartoons and animated movies, but I always thought it was "magic" rather than something that was made. It was when I was seven that I realized, thanks to my mom, that the credits were the names of artists who worked on the movies. Since then I knew I wanted to be part of that world, somehow. As I grew older, I took as many drawing classes as I could. In high school, I continued to take all the drawing classes available as well as some acting classes. I doubt I was any good at acting, but I really liked the idea of performing and becoming a new personality and character, which only strengthened my pursuit of animation. I continued my studies at the Miami International University of Art and Design. Once I began my studies there, I only fell more deeply in love with animation. As I started creating life and making characters think, I knew it was the stamp of approval indicating how I never wanted to do anything else with my life.”

In addition to these two core members, KATATONIK's team has more than 30 team members including design and painting, animation production, 3D modeling production, fur texture and optical processing departments. Compared with other NFT projects of the same period, This lineup can be said to be extremely luxurious.

In terms of roadmap, KATATONIK hopes to create a star-quality NFT character based on the production level of Hollywood animation films. With this role as the leader, to create a harmonious, equal communication and mutual trust community, KATATONIK will actively Carry out offline IRL Pawsome activities to provide a broad dating platform for every KATATONIK holder. KATATONIK also intends to launch an exclusive collection of Katatonik merchandise, including unique clothing and cool items for holders only, but there is a lack of coverage in that regard.

In addition, the KATATONIK team will also introduce a token system - $KAT token, which will open up a whole new world for the community. The project party hopes to build a complete ecosystem around $KAT. Regarding the content of this part, The team at KATATONIK will soon publish a white paper for detailed reference.

It is worth mentioning that KATATONIK's publicity matrix is ​​very mature. It is not only limited to common Twitter, but also video platforms such as youtube and tiktok. More animation content related to KATATONIK will be released in the future. Seeing a complete set of KATATONIK animations on the Internet is really exciting.

🎨 Art style introduction:

As an NFT project with rich origins from Hollywood DreamWorks, KATATONIK's artistic attainments are at the top level in the industry, as detailed as the 3D modeling of each hair, plus the refined design of more than 350 features. A lot of introductions, just look at it with your eyes, you can feel the care and level of KATATONIK's production.

The long-eared kitten who tilted its head to kill is full of cute smiles at the same time, which makes people want to take a second look.

In addition to ordinary models, KATATONIK has also designed a variety of 1/1 NFTs, most of which are based on famous Hollywood movie masterpieces, which are very vivid and have KATATONIK's personal characteristics.

🎏 Summary:

KATATONIK's production level, behind-the-scenes team, and artistic level are all worth looking forward to, but the NFT market has always been indifferent towards 3D works. Whether KATATONIK can recast the glory of 3D NFTs may still need to be questioned.

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