Hi...
Today I am going to show you a little behind the scenes of how I made the Quest For Stoken NFT that we gave away to the top ten participants in our OCD contest.
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The gif is 9.2 MB so let me try to include a smaller version for this post.

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We issued 15 of them.
This NFT made Skatehive's first NFT listed in the NFT showroom.
We plan to make a lot more.

the process

So, I use adobe after effects.

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And what I do is basically drag in all the assets that I want to collage together.

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I just have a big folder on my desktop with tons of screen shots and little bits from the game that I have blogged about before.

But for the NFT I needed a cool border.
So I searched online for Cool High Tech Card Border.
And modified it a bit.

But the coolest part is the LightSweep effect.
It makes my GIFs look like shiny Cards.
Ill show you how to do that in AE.

in the upper right go to effects and presets.

type in Light Sweep and select CC light sweep.

drag the light sweep effect onto the layer you want
in this case the card border... and the picasso statue.

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click the little timer icon thing to make a keyframe on the "Center" parameter, and move the center with your mouse where you want it to go... in the viewport of the NFT you might need to zoom in to see it, the center, its like a white circle thing you can drag.

then move the time line to the end and make another keyframe and move the center for its path.

I use light sweep on all my NFTs because it makes them look like a fake physical object.

After effects is not cheap though. its $250 a year to use.

So i gotta try to sell some NFTs to pay for it.

But in the meantime hopefully make the NFT ecosystem more cool-lookin!

Im happy to make NFTs like this for other people too!

Let me know if you want to commission an animated NFT like this for you or your community.

Cheers!

-Web-gnar

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go to the nft showroom and check it out!

https://nftshowroom.com/gallery/skatehive_quest-for-stoken_quest-for-stoken-drop-1?collection=true

BEHIND THE ART - Quest For Stoken OCD Contest NFT - how to use CC Light Sweep in Adobe After Effects

the process

go to the nft showroom and check it out!