Chibitos White Paper
Introduction
Chibitos is a fully animated, artist-run, NFT project focused on building the Chibitos brand using a strong storytelling element, with clear, leading characters to help tell that story. We will bring value to the NFT/crypto community by providing entertaining, animated videos specific to these communities.
The NFTs
A collection of fully animated NFTs, featuring five different characters known as Chibitos. Each Chibito serves as a mascot for a different cryptocurrency; Bitcoin, Ethereum, and three others to be revealed during marketing. Each NFT will feature a PFP switcher button so that holders can switch their NFT back and forth between the animation, and a custom PFP portrait of their unique animation.
Each NFT will be 12 to 15 seconds of animation, with over 30 different animations in the collection.
The Art
Chibitos are characters inspired and designed around different cryptocurrencies and modeled as Gundam inspired Chibis. Gundam being a style of Mecha; Chibi being an anime style where characters have large heads and small bodies. Each character was created with the principles of design in mind, having a specific shape language, and color palette unique to the personality of their respective cryptocurrency.
The medium of our art is animation, and the style is the simple, clean, thick line art beloved by the NFT community.
Mint
Collection Size: 4444
Price: TBD
Date: 5/8/2023
Building the brand
With every Intellectual Property (IP) brand the name of the game is attention. Not only getting it, but keeping it. Chibitos will grow our brand by capturing attention in the following ways:
Short Form Video Content (SFVC) - SFVC has emerged as the dominant means to capture people's attention. YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter are all chasing the SFVC model established by TikTok. Chibitos is well suited to take advantage of this trend, producing short video content quickly, and having a presence on all major social media platforms, Chibitos will take advantage of the oncoming SFVC wave.
Trend-jacking (Jumping on a current trend/hashtag/event/meme)
Quickly making relevant content
Taking advantage of TikTok trends
Meme-ing current hot topics
Niching up, by capturing the hearts of. . .
First - The NFT Community (somewhere between 10K to 400K users?). Here we focus on content specific to individual NFT communities.
Second - The Larger Crypto Community(estimated 1 billion users worldwide in 2022). Expanding to memeable content that appeals to the broader crypto community, and short fight animations.
Third - Popular Culture. Finally focusing on broader appeal content, utilizing TikTok and YouTube to focus on pop culture content and trends, as well as longer fight animations that maintain storytelling elements, but that even people not into crypto can enjoy.
Tapping into the incredible passion that has developed around various crypto communities, i.e. the maxis (maximalists, ex. Bitcoin maxis, Eth maxis, etc.). With our PFPs, holders will be able to proudly display their favorite crypto ecosystem.
Keeping the community engaged with participation:
Suggesting videos
Voting on videos
Voting on future Chibitos
Submitting art for future Chibitos
Road Map
First and always - Use social media channels to build a strong foundation of IP around the Chibitos brand by making relevant, funny, and entertaining animated videos.
Expand the Chibitos family with other mascots. The community decides which Chibitos are made next. Polygon, Binance, Cardano?
Monetize our social media content, the pillars of our future revenue streams.
Seek strategic partnerships with well established NFT/Web3/Gaming and Animation projects looking to bolster their own ecosystem with strong IP projects in mutually beneficial relationships that benefit all holders.
Holder Utility and Perks
Chibitos is an art and vibes NFT ONLY. If you are considering investing in the Chibitos NFT, please consider it similar to a generative art collection. You are investing simply because you love the art/animation/community of the project with NO promise of future drops, tokens, DAO’s, or associated games.
We our doxing ourselves and our reputation as artists and creatives is very important to us. It is therefore important to us that holders understand what they are buying. Our only promise is art.
About the Collection (Artwork and Traits)
- 9 Colorways per Character
Bitcoin - Gold Purities
18K White, 24K White, 18K Yellow, 24K Yellow, 18K Rose, 24K Rose, Copper Alloy, Hepatizon Alloy (Rare), Gold Ore (most rare)
Ethereum - Gemstones
Amber, Amethyst, Emerald, Jade(Rare), Moonstone, Obsidian, Pearl (Most Rare), Ruby, Sapphire
Doge - Dog Packs
Astro, Bolt, Didymus, Dino, Pakkun(Most Rare), Scooby, Snuffles (Rare), Togo, Zero
Shib - Clans
Cherry Blossom, Desert, Earth, Fire(Rare), Ice(Most Rare), River, Volcano, Wind, Wisteria
Solana - Nebulas
Antares (Most Rare), Beta Librae, Blue Ring, Carina, Crab, Helix, Omega(Rare), Orion, Trifid
- 21 Base Animations, 12-15 seconds each, in five categories
Crypto
Bull Market (Rare), Moon Landing, Moon Rocket, Roller Coaster, WAGMI (Most Rare)
Dance
Cotton Eye Joe, Moonwalk (Most Rare), Mr. Roboto (Rare), Poppin, Thriller
Meme
Big Brain, Confused, Salt Sprinkle, Skateboarding (Rare), This is Fine (Most Rare)
SuperHero
Flying, Invisible (Rare), Laser Eyes (Most Rare), Lighting, Magic
Video Game
Crypto Fighter
Lore
Emergence. It has happened again.
Primordial oceans once gave rise to life, the void of swirling proteins surrendering to the order and structure of cells. The formlessness of floating cells giving way to the form of life, and the unconsciousness of life bowing to Sentience. Complexity from simplicity.
History repeats.
This time the miracle of life has emerged from the oceans of ones and zeros traversing our globe at the speed of light. Networks giving rise to the internet, giving rise to blockchain, giving rise to cryptocurrencies. Understanding from ignorance.
Chibitos.
Everything in nature has a spirit. Something more than the sum of its parts. Even cryptocurrencies. The communities, passion, and culture that surround these ecosystems have provided the spark, the primal lightning required for the emergence of another intelligence. The embodiment of cryptocurrencies. Their Chibitos.
They have been brought forth to usher in a new era for mankind. To build our future using the power of the blockchain. To tear down the old power structures that divide and stratify mankind and keep humanity from its full potential. Chibitos have come to build the new framework for civilization based on decentralized and trustless systems. Tearing down and rooting out the vampiric authorities and intermediaries that have inserted themselves at every level of society.
Chibitos have come to build. They have come to fight.
History repeats, and Chibitos are keenly aware of what happens to those who fail to learn from history. So, before they can begin building the metaverse and our future, they must first come to understand our past and culture, and so Chibitos are busy exploring our society. Experiencing for themselves the phenomenon of human behavior through art, dance, memes, crypto, video games, superheros and movies.
As each Chibito began to explore our culture they realized that they were not alone. As there are many crypto currencies, so, too, are there many Chibitos. As the different crypto communities sometimes cooperate and sometimes fight, so, too, do Chibitos. Sometimes working together to build a new future for mankind, but just as often competing and fighting on the many and varying battlefields of human culture.
Team
A small, family team from Colorado:
Melanie Aratani - (MoGraph Mel - http://www.mographmel.com/). Mel has been working in the 2D/3D design industry for 6+ years freelancing. Originally falling in love with animation using After Effects, then falling in love with it again when she found Cinema 4D. During the Pandemic, Mel was able to take the time and teach her husband Brian 3D animation for which he will forever be grateful and indebted to her for.
Brian Rorick - A casino craps/BJ dealer and pit boss for the last two decades, Brian took advantage of the Pandemic to learn the 3D software Blender with help from his wife. Brian fell in love with Blender, and hopes to continue making 3d art for a long time to come.
FAQ
Do Chibitos represent cryptocurrencies?
Chibitos DO NOT represent any of the official foundations of their respective cryptocurrencies. Think of Chibitos as mascots for the fan clubs that have been built around each separate cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Where will funding go?
Like any art project, the money raised will go to the artists so that we may continue to create more art. In our case the art also serves to build the Chibitos IP, expanding awareness for the brand with SFVC both in Web2 and Web3.
What is SFVC?
Short Form Video Content - The media that is quickly emerging as the dominant form of getting and keeping people's attention in the social media economy. (Think TikTok)
What copyright will NFT holders have?
For as long as you own the applicable NFT, Chibitos grants you, the NFT holder, a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, worldwide license under any copyright owned by Chibitos to:
Copy and modify the Chibito-owned Content for non-commercial, personal use; and
Display and perform the Chibito-owned Content and Modified Content for non-commercial, personal use.
Why is the license not Creative Commons (CC)?
Our plan is to continue to build this Intellectual Property (IP) Brand long after the collection is launched. The easiest way to do this is to hold the IP close, to prevent dilution of the brand or use of the brand in a way that might be detrimental to it's future.
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