Are NFT's a thing of Mythology?

Brokkr : Master Blacksmith

A couple of months ago a friend in the crypto and NFT space reached out to me after my wife mentioned I do art again. You know what, most of my work is by word of mouth and referrals. I think in that way I have a wonderful plan to unite such concepts with what I am currently doing, more on that later though.

Brokkr Finance, a simplified defi investing company, and needed an artist to do a collection of hand-drawn scenes of the character Brokkr. Brokkr is one of the two dwarfs that helped create Miljonir, Thor's hammer. They also created a golden boar that could be ridden across the universe and had bright light hair made of gold. Many more weapons were crafted, but the concept changed a few times.

First, it was Brokkr making the weapons, but because Brokkr was collaborating with TerraLuna, it needed to incorporate terraforming planets in it. You can see the first two concepts here, The First one was playful cartoon style and the second was more digital and shimmery gritty. 

In the second drawing, I went more green at their request. Their brand is based on neon green and pale yellow with fill colors of black and white. The same concept of Brokky hammering at Mjolnir. This time I went heavier on proportion control and clean linework. Also, the terraforming idea was implemented in 1/3 of the painting. I used Procreate for this and used a technique I created for my previous project of mine, Fragmentz the card game. 

The idea of creating 30-40 of these #NFTs within a thirty-day stretch, you can now see it would be quite ridiculous and may leave me incapable of drawing for weeks. The hammer he was using to make Mjolnir was oversized and obnoxious. I can't say I didn't like this one, but I felt they wanted something more PFP style. (Profile Picture)

My clients wanted something that represented the weapons and was simpler. So, just a weapon would do and maybe I could utilize some new tech.

The first weapon I decided to craft in #GravitySketch on the Oculus Quest 2. I imagined a jet blade, one that would thrust in great power once swung at its foe. The theme had to mainly be shades of green since Brokkr's branding was that. You can see in the video below the final .obj files that I colored in Procreate. Hrotti, the sword above has a navigation system, jet propulsion, and charged green mercury blade and yet still requires a life when drawn from its case. 

The sword to the right is Mistilteinn easily named after "Mistel toe" for its shape. I didn't want a couple of red balls dangling from the sword, so I reimagined red fuel exhausts and left that for a heat attack. Also, I made the end of it a spear so that when thrown, the exhaust act as jets to guide the Mistilteinn to its destination. A very powerful and cool weapon, super under-rated. 

Probably my all-time favorite sword is Tyrfing. It is this sword that is cursed and magical. It was said that each time it was drawn from its planet core, it must kill a king. ( My interpretation of it but, if you want a more accurate story, click on the names of each sword. )

I made this sword have three projectile missiles launching from the center of the blade. able to spin and rotate its mechanism to fire and retract back to a smooth blade, makes this one beastly sword.

(The cool thing about creating objects in VR, is that once the object is complete, you can duplicate it as many times as possible and rearrange them in multiple positions. Makes life that much easier.) 

I placed a few of my favorite weapons of the collection. Mjolnir, Thor's hammer is the lightning-charged battle hammer that Thor himself holds in the picture just to the right. Hofud is a great sword because it can call upon the Bifröst or Bilröst, a rainbow road that connects the nine realms. It wasn't easy thinking of a futuristic and stylistic weapon that is named for its "head" shaped blade tip. I was startled as I began to imagine it "ridiculous". 

Gullinbursti, the golden boar made to be glorious with immense light and the ability to travel anywhere. I enhanced it of course, to more of a tank-like ship. Ridill is a sword with double edges and a golden handle. It was said to have torn out the heart of a dragon called Fafnir.

This entire project could have been drawn in Procreate, but I wanted to learn VR and 3D modeling and using the Oculus Quest 2 made my life pretty easy. Now that I know how to design in VR, the possibilities are endless on what I can do.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to DM me or email me.