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BrickChain

A LEGO NFT making app aims to encouraging people's creativity.

This application enable users to scan their physical LEGO creation into digital files and easily submit them to NFT market. From this project, I want to explore a new way to create NFT, which is easy for the people who are not familiar with digital work before. By doing so, I hope to encourage people's creativity and get more people involved in the NFT trend.
Individual Work
2022/8
3 months
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UI Design
Digital Prototyping
3D Modeling

Background | What is NFT

What does NFT mean

NFT means non-fungible tokens. It is basically a digital asset that represents Internet collectibles with an authentic certificate created by blockchain technology that underlies Cryptocurrency.

Net properties

1. Each token has a unique identifier
2. Each token has an owner and easily verifiable.
3. Run on Ethereum and can be bought and sold on any Ethereum-based NFT market.

When you own a NFT

1. No one can manipulate it in any way.
2. You can sell it, and in some cases, the original creator will earn resale royalties.
3. You can hold it and your assest is secured by your wallet on Ethereum.

When you create a NFT, you can

1. Easily prove you are the creator.
2. Determine the scarcity.
3. Earn royalties when it is sold.
4. Set how much resale royalties for every time it is sold.
5. Sell it on any NFT market or peer-to-peer.

NFT cases

Beeple's Human One

After creating The First 5,000 Days, Beeple is returning to Christie's, this time with a real sculpture—like, one you can actually touch or display in your home. The sculpture, called Human One, is expected to rake in a hearty $15 million.

Beeple's upcoming sale showcases a modern kind of mixed media, one in which tangible art or physical goods go on auction, but can only be purchased through NFTs

1. It has both digital and physical version works.
2. The physcial figure comes after the digital creation.This IOT app collects the data of the lights and visualizes the usage rate based on the geographical and chronological sequence. Users are able to see those in 'Light Map' and 'Light Track' pages.

Beeple's Human One

After creating The First 5,000 Days, Beeple is returning to Christie's, this time with a real sculpture—like, one you can actually touch or display in your home. The sculpture, called Human One, is expected to rake in a hearty $15 million.

Beeple's upcoming sale showcases a modern kind of mixed media, one in which tangible art or physical goods go on auction, but can only be purchased through NFTs

1. It has both digital and physical version works.
2. The physcial figure comes after the digital creation.

StockX NFT

StockX’s first is Vault, which uses tokens as a representation of authenticity and provenance for its sneaker resale market.

StockX is hoping to use NFTs as a tool to reward top-dollar spenders and collectors. For its first reward, StockX held a giveaway of eight Kaws figurines that only NFT holders could enter. The idea of using NFTs as a way of gating-off and rewarding super-fans has been a growing trend.

1. It has both digital and physical version works.
2. The digital figure comes after the physical product.

Beeple's Human One

The German sportswear giant dove head in into the the metaverse in 2021, putting out an NFT collab with Bored Apes Yacht Club, a project whose NFTs have sold for millions of dollars and are the crypto darling of celebrities like Jimmy Fallon, Eminem and Paris Hilton. Buyers of the Adidas Originals were able to claim exclusive physical merchandise including hoodies, tracksuits

1. It has both digital and physical version works.
2. The digital figure comes after the physical product.

Creating an NFT

The NFT work genre is becoming more and more inclusive, and anything can be a work of art, not only digital works created purely electronically, but also the type of merchandise that transforms physical works into digital works for sale.

Algorithm art

Use algorithm to create artworks. Artist usually uses a random process to produce variation based on external inputs.

Digital painting

Nfts can be normal digital painting, which is the process of painting on a tablet and creating artwork digitally on a computer.

Digital products

Artists can create any types of virtual products as nfts from clothes, houses, to furniture. This kind of nfts often combine with Mega universe.

Animation

Nfts can be animation or gif, such as the famous artwork of Nyan Cat.

Photographs

Photographers can just use their digital photographs as nfts.

The Insights

  • Viability

Since there is an increasing number of physical NFTs and the advanced technology to convery physical subjects into electronic ones, it has a high viability.

  • Advantage

1. The creating process will be easier due to the tangible experience.
2. The buyer can also get a physical version of the NFT they bought.

  • Value

1. More diverse types of NFT will exist, promoting the NFT market.
2. Further inspire creator with new ideas.
3. Enable more people to participate in creating NFT, including who are not familiar with creating the electronic artwork, or who are skilled at creating physical work.

Design Brief

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Design an app to transfer users' LEGO ideas into 3D digital models. It helps users publish the models as NFTs.

Lego’s aim is to stimulate people’s interestand encourage their creativity. In the process of LEGO learning, people will use their own talent to create unique work, which make them explore and discover in unknown fields. Both Lego and NFTs encourage us to release our personality and imagination,and this is why I choose Lego as the major basis. There will be a large space for people to create their own work and make diverse NFTs.

Concept Sketch

Final choice:

  • Step 1

Use smartphone to scan and save Lego artwork.

  • Step 2

The backend algorithm matches the scan results to each Lego brick one by one

  • Step 3

The Lego artwork rendering available to view on phone

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