Tron Producer Donald Kushner Creates Web3-Inspired Cryptosaurs NFT Collection
"NFTs can help documentation of the creator community through smart contracts," Kushner said.
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It's been 40 years since the classic sci-fi adventure film Tron hit screens around the world. Produced by Donald Kushner and published by Walt Disney Productions, his highly original futuristic concept made history by revolutionizing the use of computer animation in filmmaking while presenting audiences with one of the first interpretations of a digital metaverse.
Reflecting on the film's success, Donald Kushner sat down with Cointelegraph reporter Sean Moore to discuss the film's success, his new Cryptosaurs non-fungible token project, and his thoughts on the future of the metaverse.< /p>
Cointelegraph: How do current Metaverse implementations compare to what you may have imagined when creating the original Tron movie?
Donald Kushner: That's exactly what we envisioned: the personal computer would overtake the mainframe. Games and intellectual property would become engines of wealth in a global community of creators, and we would see a battle between centralized and decentralized control of intellectual property, between an economy of ownership and an economy of creators.
But Kushner also kept abreast of navigating the next wave of the digital revolution. "My colleague Mike Bonifer and I invested in crypto in 2018 as a learning experience. It was his idea. Mike is a quantum storyteller who started out as a publicist on Tron and has wrote the book The Art of Tron."
As Kushner said, Bonifer believed that movies and streaming content could be funded by crypto and “pre-collectible NFTs.” So in 2021, Kushner and Bonifer, along with industry veteran John Scheele, came together to form Gumbotron, a Web3 studio dedicated to Metaverse storytelling.
The company's newest NFT project, Cryptosaurs, developed in conjunction with brands Forj and Animoca, features collectible digital dinosaur NFT characters, starting with an egg drop in fall 2022. Each egg is a mystery box containing one line of code. A "gene randomizer" determines a sequence of "freeze or hatch" events in early 2023, during which the egg-holders will be assigned a particular species of Cryptosaur with different uses in the metaverse. The objective of the production team is...
"NFTs can help documentation of the creator community through smart contracts," Kushner said.
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It's been 40 years since the classic sci-fi adventure film Tron hit screens around the world. Produced by Donald Kushner and published by Walt Disney Productions, his highly original futuristic concept made history by revolutionizing the use of computer animation in filmmaking while presenting audiences with one of the first interpretations of a digital metaverse.
Reflecting on the film's success, Donald Kushner sat down with Cointelegraph reporter Sean Moore to discuss the film's success, his new Cryptosaurs non-fungible token project, and his thoughts on the future of the metaverse.< /p>
Cointelegraph: How do current Metaverse implementations compare to what you may have imagined when creating the original Tron movie?
Donald Kushner: That's exactly what we envisioned: the personal computer would overtake the mainframe. Games and intellectual property would become engines of wealth in a global community of creators, and we would see a battle between centralized and decentralized control of intellectual property, between an economy of ownership and an economy of creators.
But Kushner also kept abreast of navigating the next wave of the digital revolution. "My colleague Mike Bonifer and I invested in crypto in 2018 as a learning experience. It was his idea. Mike is a quantum storyteller who started out as a publicist on Tron and has wrote the book The Art of Tron."
As Kushner said, Bonifer believed that movies and streaming content could be funded by crypto and “pre-collectible NFTs.” So in 2021, Kushner and Bonifer, along with industry veteran John Scheele, came together to form Gumbotron, a Web3 studio dedicated to Metaverse storytelling.
The company's newest NFT project, Cryptosaurs, developed in conjunction with brands Forj and Animoca, features collectible digital dinosaur NFT characters, starting with an egg drop in fall 2022. Each egg is a mystery box containing one line of code. A "gene randomizer" determines a sequence of "freeze or hatch" events in early 2023, during which the egg-holders will be assigned a particular species of Cryptosaur with different uses in the metaverse. The objective of the production team is...
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