gMasked! 🌅
We’ve had way more questions about this collection than we expected (why so few, how to get WL, when collabs etc.), so wanted to answer them all in one place:
- Why 66? Hand-drawn art with this level of detail takes a long time to make. This single cyborg body trait took our artist over 4 hours to draw last night, and it’s still not quite finished. Given that holders will be able to brief trait/mask mutations in the future, this will be a significant ongoing time commitment until all 273 layers from our main collection are drawn. Multiplying that by 66 holders (including people’s unique traits when they hit max QP level) felt like our ceiling on a 100% free collection.
- How WL? The first 50% (33 spots) went to people holding REDACTED trait masks in our main collection - we shared this on X/Discord multiple times. Back then, the trait floor was under 0.02 $ETH. We also gave 14 of these masks away to holders and via X raffles. From there, the other 33 spots were given to people recommended by the first 33. We’ve onboarded anyone who wasn’t holding the main collection with free masks.
- When collabs? There was no collab phase, nor WL registration for Identity Protocol. We haven’t used this collection to farm engagement, we’ve pretty much stealth dropped it. Holders didn’t even know the mint date until we announced yesterday. We’ve built it to have some fun with freeform (non-pixel) artwork and reward holders, plus people they endorsed.
The Pen isn’t mightier than the sword. Pens don’t win battles, and swords don’t write poetry.
Mighty is the hand that knows when to pick the pen and when to pick the sword.
Thanks again @TheHollowGods for this wonderful collection.
Nameless, but not unknown.
When a highly anticipated collection was rugged, @TheHollowGods stepped up to the challenge and made a piece of history.
It is artists like these that truly make the NFT space great, and absolutely worth supporting.
2222 pieces of art, all unique. I am completely blown away by the quality of each one and can easily tell this was absolutely a labor of love.
3/ NEXT
Our Identity Protocol is not just for show. 66 people will get an identical hand-drawn, base-level mask for free.
From there, its identity is entirely up to them - holders can customise their mutable NFT according to Q Points. Each QP earned = 1 trait customisation.
Prompt Share 🚨
The alphabet understood the assignment.
Upload your character and let the letters build it.
Prompt 👇
Create a cinematic 3D typographic sculpture of the uploaded character’s exact likeness, standing in a neutral front-facing pose inside a minimal studio environment.
The character is built entirely from dense extruded 3D letters, numbers, and symbols. The typography forms the full body structure: head, eyes, limbs, outfit shapes, accessories, and silhouette. Each letter behaves like a physical sculptural block, stacked, curved, compressed, and layered to recreate the character’s exact proportions and recognizable design.
Likeness Integrity: Preserve the uploaded character’s exact head-to-body proportions, eye shape, eye spacing, silhouette, outfit structure, accessories, stylization, and original design language. Do not humanize. Do not alter anatomy. Do not modify facial structure. Do not add a mouth or nose if the original character does not have them.
Typography Material: Use bold extruded sans-serif letters with mixed scales. Large letters define the main silhouette, smaller letters fill surface details and contours. The typography should feel engineered and physical, not randomly scattered. Letters may bend around forms but must remain readable in places. The original character colors should influence the letter colors subtly, with controlled saturation.
Floor Detail: The floor is covered with loose fallen letters, type fragments, and oversized glyphs scattered around the character like construction debris. Some letters cast shadows and overlap naturally. The floor typography must support the scene without distracting from the character.
Camera & Composition: One-angle view only, clean 3/4 front perspective. Camera slightly low, using a 35mm lens. Character placed slightly off-center, occupying about 60% of the frame. No multiple angles, no turnaround sheet, no extra poses.
Depth of Field: Focus locked on the character’s face and upper torso. Foreground floor letters slightly blurred. Background falls into soft depth.
Lighting: Hard directional side light from screen-left, creating sculptural shadows between the extruded letters. Subtle rim light from behind to separate the typographic silhouette. No flat studio lighting.
Texture & Rendering: Premium 3D render, matte and satin letter surfaces, subtle bevels, micro scratches, fine dust between letters, realistic contact shadows, physically grounded typography construction.
Mood: Quiet identity reconstruction. The character feels assembled from language itself, like a living logo escaping from the alphabet.
Negative Constraints: No random word cloud effect, no flat printed text texture, no extra characters, no multiple poses, no full-body sharpness everywhere, no centered symmetry, no generic alphabet pile, no redesign, no typography replacing the eyes incorrectly.
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Collabs are a core utility for any NFT project - a way of creating ongoing opportunities & value for holders. They also pose a risk due to bad actors.
That’s why we now share an agentic pre-mint risk assessment ahead of every collab launch.
@lacertianseth = just mint it ✅