Meebits DAO: Community Update #003

19 June 2021

137’s Meebits collection from a photoshoot by LAIKA

Latest Announcements

The #Meelebrity Showdown Competition

We’re excited to start the #Meelebrity Showdown competition. Each week we’ll be announcing a new theme for the community to find the best celebrity lookalikes, and then we’ll have a tournament-style voting competition to find the best-in-class #Meelebrity.

We’re currently looking for your best Sports #Meelebrity — so if you’ve got one post it to twitter with the hashtag!

Community Growth

• Discord — 481 members, +83 this week
• Twitter — 1,870 followers, +239 this week
• Instagram — 94 followers
• YouTube — 130 followers
• Newsletter/Sign-ups — 669 sign-ups, +143 this week

Project Updates

Project Proposal: Talking Meebits

via Elsewhat

• Making the Meebits come to life in 3D unlocks a new potential for the collection. We should see this as a key differentiatior compared to other 2D based collectibles such as crypto punks or bored ape yacht club.
• Through the Vox-to-VRM project, we’ve unlocked controllable 3D Meebits and made this available as a service to all MeebitsDAO members. The next frontier is talking meebits.
• Talking Meebits is essential for a thriving ecosystem of Meebits video producers. Imagine a youtube channel where the latest NFT- and crypto-news are being presented by an elephant meebit, or an epic showdown between a pig meebit and an ape featuring monkey island like insults.
• Whilst this is possible for 3D artists today, it’s extremely time consuming and not transferable between meebits. We want to streamline this process so that in minutes you can have a animated talking meebit for any dialogue you have available.
• Of course, 3D video production is just the start of this. We want to use the same technology to bring talking meebits to the metaverse. We want to allow the user to choose between many different forms of talking depending on how they want to appear during the session.
• Talking 3D models, also known as lip sync, has seen a lot of research. The different sounds a character can make are known as phoneme, and for each sound we need to define the mouth shape and any deformation to the head. The Preston Blair phoneme series is commonly used and requires the following sounds to be defined for the character: AI, O, E, U, etc, L, WQ, MBP,FV and rest. Other alternatives may also need to be investigated.

We’re going to launch this as our next project, supported by bounties– Join the Discord to get involved!

3D Rendering

via Kerimbonia

• Working on updating the default MeebitsRig.blend (the one used with the Vox > Vrm plugin) file to allow users to quickly generate more eye-pleasing renders of their Meebits upon import. also working on a new DAO proposal and recruiting, preparing, animating and rendering meebits for a the same project to use as proof of concept.

3D Printing

• We’re looking into streamlining the 3D Printing process for the community!

Metaverse Communities

Somnium Space

via SuperMassive

• Started work on the build. First construction is up and viewable here: https://somniumspace.com/parcel/2711?elv=-0.84

CryptoVoxels

via Chillzone

• We put out a Minting and Wearing Meebit Wearables Guide.
• Investigating if the DAO can mint Meebit wearables as a service for DAO members

OVR

via FI5HY

• Hi all, here is a concept for an OVR Charity Event — would love to get feedback from everyone.

The Sandbox

via RantumBits

• Official Meebits integration is in the works and expect an update this summer
• Sandbox demonstrated how avatars can be used via a demo with BAYC
• Began testing animation templates in VoxEdit
• COMMUNITY REQUEST: Looking for help with those experienced with 3D animation and VoxEdit

Decentraland

via Trippyogi

• Troubleshooting the Wearables Editor for full body Meebits
• Tested per parcel Meebit avatars — There is currently a DCL bug waiting on a fix to correctly hide the default avatar when swapping for the Meebit
• Ture | studionouveau.eth reached out to DCL team, and said that they are working on a solution to keep avatar wearables connected to owners’ NFT across transfers
• COMMUNITY REQUEST: We’re looking for an additional Community Evangelist to support Trippyogi in working with Decentraland to help with bringing Meebits to Decentraland

Shout outs!

Amazing work by Funkyz who added the sound design to our animation preview for ROBOBIT

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