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Angel Hour with Roly Poly
Recorded: April 3, 2025 Duration: 0:58:49Space Recording
Short Summary
Roly Poly is set to launch its innovative project this summer, blending K-pop culture with community-driven storytelling. The creators emphasize engagement through interactive experiences and partnerships, aiming to redefine user involvement in the Web3 space.
Full Transcription
Music Thank you. Thank you. Music Thank you. GM, GM, guys.
Roly Poly, I sent you an invitation to speak.
Don't know if that's going through.
Things are being a little wonky on X today.
GM, GM.
Let's see if we can fill this room up send this uh space to your friends your enemies uh yell out the window invite your neighbors um let's hang out and learn
about roly poly i'm actually really excited to learn more about roly poly because i like this
kind of like k-pop inspired art so i like to kind of like dive into it live with everybody and learn about it
um right on the space with everybody so um yeah we'll give a couple minutes and we'll get started
Daniel, can you hear me?
Daniel can you hear me
Hello?
Hello, hello.
GM, GM, how are you?
I can finally hear you.
Let's go.
Thanks for having me.
You're welcome.
I didn't know if the requests were going through.
I sent a couple out, and it's just like, yeah, I don't know if X is cooperating today.
It better not.
If my bags are going to be down today, at least it can't, like, rug me on spaces.
Like, give me something, Elon.
Give me something.
But hi! Just to introduce, this is Angel Hour with Abstract. Angel behind the account is
Dyla on Chain. So, you see the little bear on the other side? That's me in real life. That's
actually what I look like. I am literally just a little blank-faced bear with a red hoodie on.
Sorry to disappoint you if you think I'm anything else, but that's pretty much what it is. And Abstract Angels is the official women's community for Abstract. We have a couple different
spaces going on today, so trying to get some angels up in here. But until then, I'm really
interested to learn more about Roly Poly. And like, it's a really different art. It's unique
and something I haven't seen on chain. So
while we're waiting, can you give us
a quick TLDR on
the project before I ask you a bunch of questions
about it? Yes,
sure. And I can also...
Oh, there you are. Hey, how's it going?
I'm here, I'm here.
Yeah, I was actually
getting a bit rugged before.
I wasn't able to join as a speaker, but now I was.
Yeah, I'm Bob.
I'm the creative director of Roly Poly.
I work very closely together with Daniel.
Although I am from the Netherlands, but I live in Belgium.
And Daniel actually lives in Brazil.
So we're neighbors but only
the notion apart i would say right uh so i'm the creative director um so i i take care of all the
the things related to the nft collection the trades uh the digital experiences the the whitelist game
the social content like all that type of stuff. And Daniel is the mastermind creative that can basically create anything I want.
So I always talk about Daniel as some kind of secret AI agent robot guy
because I can just put a prompt in this guy and he can just create it, you know?
He's like your own DanGPT kind of situation.
Yeah, DanGPT, exactly.
Takes a little more time but yeah
yeah sometimes when he speaks i hear some bleeps and bloops and i know okay this guy is just a
robot you know so um but about about roly poly a lot of people yeah actually and anyone we speak
with uh always says that they love the art and uh i have to say that daniel is one of the most
creative and most talented people i've ever worked with um he has such a crazy portfolio he worked
for for puma mercedes mtv brazil he did a video clip with di dollar sign and conye west
he is an illustrator but also an animator like hand-drawn animation
and he directs other yeah uh yeah animation movies as well so like he is always like so humble about
what he does and has done but I always say that I'm like the cheerleader that has to jump like
take the the tutu and the pom-poms and have to jump in front of the crowd
and say, like, look at Daniel
because he's such a talented artist.
So again, Daniel, you're amazing.
And Rolly Polly is basically the latest world
he has been building.
It's actually been in development for a couple of years.
Back in 2018, there was actually a novel produced or published and sold in different stores across
us brazil and europe um and it's a novel about the first character in the volleyball universe
she's called fanta so she's the the girl that you see in my pfp and like the she has a special
uh yeah also an x account that talks from her perspective um and but that's just one person in
the roly-poly universe right and uh daniel was inspired and i'll give the mic to him as well but
he was inspired by working and traveling through Southeast Asia.
And when he overheard a K-pop song on the radio called actually called Roly Poly, you can look it up on YouTube.
He was inspired to tell a story about K-pop and about the girls in the group and, you know, the drama that goes on in the K-pop groups as well, because there are so many people in those groups that
something has to go wrong at some point. That's in life, but also in K-pop, I would say.
But yeah, inspired by Korean illustration, but also his Brazilian colorful sides. And that
created Roly Poly. And now we're creating this crazy universe with uh different characters
and untold stories and uh yeah we're creating this ip brand and see how far we can stretch it
you know um so yeah daniel if you want to say something like i i can also give it to you
sometimes i've just have to put like a sock in my mouth because i can't stop talking you know
no i love that and and love i would love to hear more about the whole mind behind this idea for, but awesome to,
what, I mean, not for nothing, what a hell of a creative director to be like, I am the ultimate
cheerleader for this project. I think that's the ideal situation. So GG's to you, Daniel,
for getting somebody who's like rooting behind you as an artist. Because if there's anything
I've learned about artists is for as creative as they
are and as amazing things as they can create sometimes they have trouble really being the
ones advocating for their own art so being able to have somebody close by who really gets it and
is like hey you don't have to be the one to sit here and glaze yourself I'll do that all day long
to make sure that talent is recognized like that's the dream so hey daniel nice to meet you nice to meet you too thanks
so yeah it's really really cool to to work with bob like he really inspires me he's he pushes me a
lot to keep working and uh he also like uh i'm the illustrator and he's a really good designer. So we can complement each other.
Thank you, Daniel, for being the cheerleader once.
Let's do a dance together after the stream.
What a love fest.
No, you're awesome.
No, you're awesome.
Cool.
So yeah, I worked a lot with animation and publicity and doing personal projects for mostly animation.
And then at some point I wanted to do like... I cheated myself when I thought that frame by frame animation is really, really a lot of work. So I kind of, I thought that doing a graphic novel would be like more chilling vibes,
but yeah, it's not like it took me three years to do the graphic novel.
And I was really inspired by, I mean, we always get inspired by our own story.
So I got like the feeling that have uh about the process of doing something
about the goal and uh i was learning that uh the goal itself like to do some project it's not like
when you get there it's like and it's kind of an illusion you know you get there and you see like
okay what what's next like uh you get some euphoria for for some moment
and then you okay what's next so i i was i was kind of learning to enjoy the process itself this
is like the the best part you know not the actual goal and that one example is like working with uh
bob it's really cool too we We do a lot of calls just sharing
when we are working together. And this call, for example,
is pretty cool to enjoy this
instead of just looking for the goal itself.
And this is something I learned from experience
being an artist, and I want to put this on a,
like I want to tell this into a story.
And then like, if I was going to do about myself,
like just drawing, it would not be so cool visually.
So I was really into K-pop at the time.
I was inspired by Tiara, a story as well in the music.
And I decided to put my experience
from being an artist to this environment that's more fashionable, it's more like
inviting people to see visually, you know. So I put this, Fanta is the first character of the novel
and she's a great fighter and she struggles to like, she just wants to be the best, you know,
her goal and then on this journey on the first chapter, she learns that, yeah,
the process is what makes more sense. You have to enjoy it, you know. And this is, I think it's a
very powerful message that I try to put this on the graphic novel in a really like, graphic and cool way.
Yeah, I love how you have some very distinct details in the art that make it feel very,
Yeah, I love how you have some very distinct details in the art that make it feel very, very acutely roly-poly, specifically like the lashes.
I don't know if you've noticed, but I have a habit of putting lashes on little green penguins for the little angels.
So I'm just like, oh, look, there's lashes everywhere.
But I really like that it is an art style that I haven't seen specifically on in the Web3 space.
I've seen a lot of, you know, anime inspired and, you know, even chibi, like kind of like or manga inspired.
But like I this is a very, very distinct style.
And I know you said you took it from K-pop.
Are there specific like artists that you've taken these details from
or is it just you messing with the process and being like,
oh, this is something that I'm just going to throw in there and see what works?
No, no.
It was actually, it took me, when I was writing the story,
because Fanta is just the first chapter.
I wrote like six chapters and it's not done yet
i hope i can do it in a near future but i it was like uh very conscious to create like a specific
art style uh one thing that i can mention is like for example uh if you see dragon ball you know uh
the shape of the eye the formula to do the eye is very specific and you can see like, okay, this is Dragon Ball.
There is not another anime that looks like it.
And if it looks, it's going to be like associated with the formula that he created, you know.
And it took me a lot of time to, for example, the shape of the eye, you can see like looks like a diamond, like a triangle. And this took me a lot of time to just to create the formula of the eye you can see looks like a diamond, like a triangle.
And this took me a lot of time to just to create the formula of the eye.
And then the colors took me a lot of work and the proportion and the environment.
It was a study for like six to eight months, just sketching on a sketchbook i kind of feel like a hundred pages of sketches
before starting to to really put on practice to do the graphic novel so it was really calculated
to to make something different you know and colorful and it it fits with the narrative to be
like psychedelic and kind of retro futuristic retro you know. So it took a lot of work just to find the right formula
to be something very genuine and recognizable.
Yeah, I mean, I really like the palette
because it's kind of, it's more, it's these bright colors,
but they have like kind of like this muting to them.
But then you have this heavy black line
that gives it that like very retro depth to
it i'm the kind of person who likes to like sit and like look at art and kind of figure out why
this art like distinguish itself from another different kind of art so i'm like sitting here
piecing like tearing it apart but um but it's such it's such a cool dynamic because it keeps that
it keeps that fresh like color palette without being too overly harsh
or overly goofy and i tend to kind of like lean towards the colors uh that is something that i
really learned from the process for example it took me like three years to to almost like uh
between some jobs and paying my bills right so uh if it's like almost three years but uh one thing about the
process is like i was learning to deal with colors and create a cool environment and the lighting so
uh imagine that um i did the the tracing the strokes and then i started to to to make the
color on the like the first year and then at the end of the year i noticed that i
involved with this so the colors of the like i don't know that the 30 page uh it was way better
than the first one so i had to keep going back like three or four times on the process to like
okay this looks better now because i'm involving i mean i'm learning from the process so i have to
redo a lot of like, redoing the first one
or the first, like, three or four times
to really get the color palette right.
Gotcha. Well, I do love it.
So tell me about the storyline with the characters.
So the main character is Fanta,
and we mentioned how it's inspired by kind of like the drama of these
different groups can you kind of like flesh out that story that story behind it for me because
i'm not too into the k-pop world myself so dumb it down for us who are not so familiar
uh the the thing is uh this this group called tiara i don't know Tiara, I don't know how to pronounce it.
It has a polemic that the music
is very cute and very
up vibes, you know.
And then you see there is a
dark story behind it.
There was a lot of bullying happening inside
the group with an individual.
And then
it was so huge in Korea
that they split up because of this
poland and I thought it was interesting concept that uh it's very like um it just on the surface
looks very bright and really like fun but that is a dark story and I think that's that happens a lot
on the process if you for example comparing to like doing some animation or something, you see the final result and, oh, this is pretty cool.
I want to be an animator.
But it's a lot of time, a lot of work,
a lot of pain to do this.
And I think it's comparable.
And then this is part of the whole story.
For Fanta itself, it's more about finding your star.
The star is like a metaphor for a goal, you know?
And she is very perfectionist.
She's very proud at the beginning of the graphic novel.
She's like, just want to be the best.
And she doesn't have much recognition for this
because she's too smug, you know?
She's always taking herself too seriously.
And then on this journey,
she has a rivalry relation with her brother
that keeps pushing her that he's more famous.
He's also a fighter, but he's an amateur.
And he has more recognition from the audience.
And she's really pissed off about this
because she wants to be a recognizer.
And then she wants to be more famous than him.
And to get into this, she tries to join on a K-pop group.
And to join it, she has to get into a drug code
to get some, like the, it's called wishing star,
the drug, which has a metaphor for like,
you take this drug and you pass through the
process of doing something you just like you trip in yourself like as you feel that you
accomplish some goal instantaneously and then this is a metaphor for like you can't
ignore the process you have to feel the process have You have to enjoy it. And then on this journey to get these drugs, she understands this.
And at the end, she learns a lesson like, okay, it was a pretty cool adventure.
I have to chill out. I have to enjoy the process. I have to live it.
I have to be more charismatic. I have to connect with people.
And that's what we are doing. It's not just making a graphic novel.
We want to connect with people.
We want to connect with you guys right now on the stream.
We want to connect with the community to help us to create more stories.
So this is kind of a summary of the message behind the graphic novel.
I love it.
So go ahead.
I'm it. Maybe one thing to add there is that there's already a creative novel out there with this
crazy psychedelic story of Fanta who enters a drug cult to go through the realization That, you know, the goal is not really the, it is the end goal, but, uh, it doesn't give you the satisfaction of, uh, actually enjoying the process and enjoying the small little incremental improvements that you make and becoming better and making connections with other people that and even the bad days like if you if you enjoy the entirety of it
that ultimately gives you more satisfaction than reaching the goal itself you know so
uh i think that's you know fanta is the first character in our roly poly universe
and what daniel also said is like we want to create stories with the community as well. So the people in our community, the holders of Roly Poly NFTs are actually citizens in our city.
We see it as a big buzzing city of NeoSeal where you can actually have a role in the city.
And if you want to be an influencer and post about us on X, like, then you are an
influencer in our universe. And there could be a story created around your process or your
little story in our universe. Or if you want to be a drug dealer, like, you know, you do you.
But there's a lot of stories inside of the city and not only around the K-pop group that it started off at,
but a lot more around the concept of these stars
and the people chasing that dream.
So that's just what I wanted to add, Daniel,
a little bit of context.
I love that.
So it feels like you're using the stars
or whatever they take as more of like a catalyst
for personal growth
and somebody kind of going through the stage
of evolving through their personal growth
to kind of like achieve what they were looking for.
That is so cute.
I mean, yeah, it's what Daniel said.
It's also a bit dark, right?
Because I think that it relates a lot to Web3 as well,
where we are in this space.
Like, we are now sitting in a space.
We are on Twitter every day.
People are grinding their asses off, right,
to get to a certain goal.
And if you don't like that process because
to other people it might even be a very painful experience to be on socials and be interacting
with people but if you if you love that process and if you love the interaction with like you
Dalia for now we speak for the first time like I love connecting with new people
and making the connection with the angels was for
for our team was really a fun experience because we shared our art with you and like with ac
we shared the first one-on-one and she was like yo let's hop on a space and on a stream let's
connect with these other people because we are all passionate right and we we want to share that
experience so i think that was that that represents the feeling of what we want to share that experience. So I think that represents the feeling
of what we want to communicate as well, right?
Where just enjoying what you do
and enjoying the process is really,
yeah, it gets you closer to your goal,
but also makes it just inevitably more fun, you know?
Yeah.
Love that.
You guys seemed like you have like this very,
I did not expect this more deeper
introspective story and I know you said there was a darker side to it but that's kind of like
personal growth right there is a there is a bit of dark you have to get to to kind of get to your
best self so that you can accomplish your goals so I like that it's not all sunshine and rainbows
and she's kind of got to go through a little friction and some some not so attractive things because that's the human experience but you guys both seem to have
like this this so much this deeper pensive perspective on on what you want the storyline
to be how did you two come to work together like this and and why launch a project in web3 why not like you know just kind of like
I don't know stay in like the the web2 circle that were you already in web3 communities like
how'd that grow uh I I worked in advertising for about a decade um so I I did a lot of motion design
uh yeah graphic design uh created campaigns for bigger brands.
And then I started working in Web3, first as a freelancer, then full time.
And I just enjoyed being in Web3 way more than in Web2.
And yeah, we actually, Daniel and I have a shared friend, Alexa, by the way, if you're in the space, shout out to Alexa.
And Alexa also worked in Web3 and he knew Daniel and actually brought us together.
And he was like, yo, you have to meet Daniel.
He's this crazy Brazilian illustrator who actually wants to grow something in Web3, but he doesn't know how to.
actually wants to grow something in Web3, but he doesn't know how to.
And yeah, I was actually a good fit to that because also as a designer myself,
I understood everything that Danny was going through and making.
And yeah, we just started talking, started creating stuff together
and decided to launch the NFT collection because I think that Web3 is really the only place where you can build something together with your community in a very easy way.
And in Web2, that's more difficult because it's difficult to connect with your consumers in a way that you can do in Web3.
And also, yeah, really reward people for being part of your project
directly right and i think daniel uh sorry that i always go before you but i think that is also for
you is also really important right that you really connect with your audience and uh that they
actually get something back instead of having that that gap you know yeah yeah i totally agree man i mean uh i always say
is that i i had the experience of publishing it it was pretty cool i was like the first brazilian
uh artist to make a solo publish on fontagraphics that was a huge like a
um a compliment and then when when i get there it's like it's at that end like you just see people
buying it and like giving some commentaries but it's not really connecting you know and i as i
was saying like the process is more important uh i was really stoked like to the okay it got
published but it was momentarily uh so i want to keep it moving forward and then doing another graphic novel
would be the same thing.
So doing in Web3, it's pretty cool to connect with like,
for example, like with another in Web3,
I met Bob and Alexa
and they become friends on the process.
This is what's really important.
Like the goal is important,
but the process is way more important.
The goal is just something that keeps you moving forward
and makes your life become enjoyable.
If you don't enjoy it, you're going to get on the go
and you're going to be frustrated because you spend a lot of time
on a hard time and not enjoying it.
So this is the main the main message that went
like i just try if that's possible try to enjoy it when we're doing this like the goal is another
thing but uh the process will be way more important yeah awesome uh merhev welcome to the stage i saw
you had your hand shoot up for a second i had some questions but wanted to go ahead and give you the
um give you the mic for a second how's it going no no please go ahead okie dokie cool uh gm gm um by the way if anybody has any questions feel
free to issue a hand up um you guys had mentioned uh you know in in speaking about it kind of like
how to reward the community so let's talk a little bit about, you know, the community build part
and the utility for the community.
What do you guys plan on building out for that?
And what kind of incentives do you have for your community?
Well, that's maybe a little bit of alpha.
I can share your...
This is a safe space. You can share it.
I won't tell anybody.
Everybody cover your ears.
So one of the things that we're actually building right now
and is launching pretty soon,
we're building a whitelist experience
that allows people to, yeah,
already step into the Roly Poly universe
in a fun and engaging way.
And it's actually part of our Play Store
Arcade. And in our
city, we have multiple buildings, right? We have
a cinema, and we have
a bookstore, and we have
a mall. But the
Arcade, the Play Store Arcade, is really
a place where we want to create fun
interactive, gamified experiences
that allow people to be part of the world of the universe.
And we can just give away whitelist spots
via collaborations and social posts.
But we were like, okay,
how do we tease a little bit of what we want to do
to our community and let them have some fun with
this whitelist experience, right?
So if you, in a couple of weeks, if you go to our whitelist experience and you enter
the arcade, you can actually play a grabber game.
And in this machine, there's multiple plushies, like a Fanta plushie, but also a bearish plushies like a fanta plushie but also a bearish plunge plushie uh maybe even an abstract angel
plushie or a gacha a gacha ball for example um and if you grab the plushie you actually get a
prize right and the prize for a fanta is obviously going to be a whitelist or guaranteed spot guarantee spots uh but if you get a bearish or if you get a uh yeah before it's just a little budgie
plushie then you win the plushie but also the nft itself right and we want to make like this
experience a fun way of connecting with different yeah collections and and apps and people in the
in the abstract ecosystem because we believe yeah, making connections with other people and the
community and other communities as well is key to really grow a fun, yeah,
a fun place for people to hang around with, but also interact with the IP, right?
And yeah, I can't spoil too much about what we want to do, but we have like you can tell Daniel and me can can I can go hours on brainstorming.
So we have a lot of ideas of how we want to execute things after Mint.
But this is just a little taste of that. Right. So that's what I can give to you.
That's awesome. That's exciting. I love the I love the intention behind collaborating with other projects and other
kind of images that are meaningful in the ecosystem. If there's one thing I love and
appreciate about the abstract ecosystem is it really does feel like its own little town in
Web3. The communities feel a lot more connected, I would say that i felt in in in other chains but um not only in you know
your your your digital experience but i've heard that you guys have been kind of like
involved in irl experiences already is that right oh damn yeah yeah yeah i mean We were a couple of days ago.
I mean, we weren't there physically, but Fanta was there for us, you know.
And we sponsored the Abstract Asia event.
And we actually did like a selfie contest in the event.
So we put like a life-size Fanta cut out there.
And we allow people to take selfies
with Fanta uh for them to have a chance to win some pengu and yeah that's actually yeah the pin
post that's uh that's Nat that's uh one of the abstract Asia Asia guys if he's in the in the
space hi Nat I don't think he is, but he took a selfie with Fanta.
And it was actually a fun way of
being there,
although we weren't there physically, but
Fanta was there for us,
our spirit animal.
That is fun, though, when she's holding the
Pengu token. I saw that, and I was like,
that's cool. To be honest,
I don't think we do enough of that with our IP
in Web3. I wish people had more of these cardboard cutouts at events. It gives that kind of like
comic con kind of vibe where you feel like you're actually hanging out with these characters and
things like that and get to take pictures with them in an IRL setting. Like, I feel like we don't
do that enough. So, um, yeah, keep sending Fanta all over the place because how cute would it be
to just like, kind of like have her just pop up at random Web3 events?
I mean, speaking of which, I mean, you,
we spoke to you in the chat
and we actually want to still make your one-on-one.
So yeah, if you can give us like the suggestions
and you don't have to do it now,
but the things that really
yeah make you you right then please let us know in the dms and yeah we'll uh we'll get it going
you know because i think you also deserve one oh thank you it's very easy pale girl with dark hair
bare ears and a red hoodie it's so easy um i literally am just my my my bare ears and red hoodie that's kind of my thing i in real
life i have a handful of red hoodies and like hats with bare ears i don't know what my problem is
and i don't look to um solve that problem anytime soon i mean that's not a problem it's only a
problem for the people that don't like that yeah i you You know what? Only because these were like, so a little background on me.
Like I'm like an OG sappy seal and I've had this seal with bear ears and a hoodie forever.
And I just end up getting so many like different honoraries and stuff.
Like these traits have just been something that I've just connected with.
And I feel like that's kind of like the special thing about IP in Web3 that you can take these little details in this PFP that meant something to you and, you know, the community.
And to me, it's more about just a project.
It's a community that helped me explore my creativity in the Web3 space.
I was not a content creator.
I was not even I didn't even have an X account for more than 48 hours before owning a seal.
So existing on X in the Web3 space is all I've ever known.
I even have like a little sappy seal tattoo.
Oh, damn.
That's actually funny.
Like Daniel also has a lot of tattoos.
And I, Daniel, I have to send you this video.
You have to post this after the space.
He actually has a tattoo on his on his hands, but it's basically a
the first drawing that he made when he was six and he felt that he was good at drawing.
Right. So it's it's a Power Ranger.
It's a very simple Power Ranger, it's it basically put that drawing on
his hand as a reminder of like oh shit you know I that's what I want to do you know so
post a pic in the comments so we could post it on the Jumbotron I want to see now
but uh it was like this uh everyone draws when we are kids, right? And then at some point, we can see that's not really good.
And you can keep working on this to become better.
Or you can just, like, most of people just, like, stop drawing.
And then this is very symbolic.
It was like, I remember when I was six, I did this.
And I was like, oh, this looks pretty cool.
And it's very sketchy.
It's very weird.
But I really, until now, like, I keep liking it.
And I, yeah, I tattoo it on my hand just to remind, like, this is what you choose to do.
Like, keep doing this, you know.
So I love this.
It's my favorite one.
That is so sweet to, like, to have this piece of art that kind of like,
is like, this is my starting point and to have it right on your hands,
you know, like being the tool that you use to kind of like continue to improve.
That is so like poetic. I love that.
Yeah. And it's also like, it's on the hand also because I said the tool that I use,
but also like if I want to be a lawyer or something,
I wouldn't be able anymore because I have one in my hand.
There are some professions that you can have like on your hand.
So I have to keep working with illustration for now on.
I love, oh, so you like, you just locked it in.
You were like, this is what I'm going to do no matter what,
no matter what my challenges are. This is what I it that's that's that's deep no wonder you developed a whole
comic of somebody going through this kind of like you know transformative experience do you think
like kind of life imitates art in that experience have you taken like bits of like your own growth
as an artist and put that into the story yeah yeah, yeah. I mean, I think that, I mean, if I have to say something, if I have something to say, like I was thinking about doing a graphic novel and I'm like, what do I have to say?
And I think it is my personal growth as an artist and how this applies to my life itself, you know.
So I learned a lot about this on the process, like to be morning like you have a goal specific goal
you have to believe in it so this is some it's a message that i i mean i think it's important to
like okay you made a decision and yeah yeah keep trying it because it took me a lot of i can't
read a lot of hard work to to be what i am right now that i can pay my bills with what i do it was really really hard
but uh it was yeah i try to to get like enjoy meanwhile yeah and you said you're from you're
from brazil yeah yeah okay so that's a that's a that's a latino a country like i myself i'm
puerto rican have you ever and this might this might just be me because I'm, uh, I do mixed media art and I do art. Do you ever find, have you ever
found yourself in life where like kind of like questioning whether you, your art is something
that's like, okay, this is going to be my career where you didn't go the traditional route. And
you're like, okay, how do I justify that? And how do I make sure that this is like really what I
want to do? And I insist on doing this well so that I'm not just like goofing off drawing in
the corner yeah I think that once I decided to go to this I had I mean I didn't actually have
any other choice because this is just the one thing that I know how to do and I want to be like
I'll do this very well because if i i can't
draw anymore if i lose my hand or something i'm pretty screwed because i don't know how to do
anything else you know and uh it's kind of cool to be like uh one thing that i noticed uh because
i work a lot in brazil but also working on for another countries like uh united states and europe
like the United States and Europe and also Japan and China.
I understood that it was kind of cool to be like in Brazil
because the industry here for illustration and animation,
it's very, it's pretty hard.
Like on, you know, take for example,
each artist is like specifically to do something
like the animation or the cleanup or the tie down
or the like composition and in brazil we don't have this um this structure you know to do this
so i had to learn every single part of the process like i had to how to do the style frames the
animation the tie down like everything and then it was kind of hard mode and and now i can feel that was like
a reading things training and now i'm more prepared it's like uh comparing with some other artists
that works on the uh on other countries like the united states for example that is more specific
it's kind of cool to have like the whole experience so know how to direct it. I know how to do every single part of the process.
It was really difficult to get there.
Yeah, for sure.
Merhab, you had your hand up.
Jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam.
Sorry.
When I first raised my hand, I don't know what happened.
I got robbed.
So good to see you everyone daila bob daniel everyone is like nancy
good to see you guys congrats for you to to i guess you sponsored yeah you sponsored the
abstract asia event so that's you more exposure. There is a missing point, I guess you forgot, Bob, to mention about the whitelist experience.
Do I have, as a user, do I have to pay anything to participate?
Because I have the opportunity to win an NFT, or what?
Oh, man.
Thank you, Marep, for reminding me.
I mean, you don't have to pay anything to
play the game yeah yeah i mean it's free but it's the only thing that you have to do is basically
engage with us on twitter and the people that are collaborating with us um and you know show
show them some love show the you know share the love on on and follow them, interact with their content
and that gives you some coins
to put in the machine
yeah, it's basically you pay with your
engagement
but yeah, it's fun because
if you're super lucky
then you actually
win a lot by just doing nothing
that's the best thing in life
i think i guess i guess i'll get lucky like i'll just engage with you guys and like play with that
machine pull first a little pudgy then maybe another bearish i mean maybe we should maybe
you should like my uh or i tweeted the by the way i put the video video up where Daniel shows his hand tattoo. So if you go to my Twitter, or I also reposted it from the VoliPoli account,
then you can pin it on the top of the Jumbotron.
All right.
Okay, I'm looking for it right now so I can pin that.
doing my hunting. Hold on a second.
Doing my hunting.
Hold on a second.
This is the video
four minutes ago?
Yes.
Okay, okay, okay. I want to see it.
Is that it? Oh my gosh!
That's...
The actual drawing is next to it, Oh my gosh.
The actual drawing is next to it.
So you see the... I love it.
It does look like a kid's kind of interpretation.
I was kind of like...
I don't know what I was waiting for.
But that is so sweet to just have that.
And be kind of like...
That's my first real foray into recognizing my own artistic ability that's that's super cute i don't think i have any of my
art for when i was growing up i wish i did more like even more specially like having it tattooed
where you can't ever lose it that's so cute. I have to thank my
grandmother because
she kept all my
drawings since I was like, since I
started drawing. So I have like when I
was three, when I was four, when I was five,
like all the way to
like doing Dragon Ball,
you know, doing Sensei, doing a lot of
anime, a lot of face, doing
like Lonely Toon's illustration. I have it all, like a lot of anime, a lot of faves, doing like Lonely Tunes illustration.
I have it all, like a lot of like paper.
I have like, she saved this.
So I really appreciate that she did it.
That's amazing.
How does she feel about your art now?
Yeah, I mean, she doesn't understand very much.
Actually, my parents, my parents and my whole family.
But they didn't give me a lot of like uh you didn't saw
it as a career but when i start doing for like huge brands for like publicity they now they are
really proud now that i'm getting money from this you know before that it was just like i'm the
the black sheep of the family yeah that's, that's what I was mentioning earlier.
It's just like, you know, being a, you know,
for it's amazing how, you know,
and this is, again, me speaking kind of personally,
you know, Latin culture is so rooted in art,
but being an artist sometimes
in a more traditional family setting
is not necessarily the biggest um biggest supported thing so sometimes you have to be that guy who's like
see i can't i've turned my art into something where it is into a living before somebody can
before the family unit can get to a point where they're supportive of it so um very glad for you
that you got to to that point so you could be like see it was it was worth it all these doodles everywhere yeah it was like uh one of my stars that i did like i already mentioned
like to prove to my family that i'm going to to to pay my bills with my art it was really painful
and sometimes that uh it was a journey to to like a but it was like as i said like an star is a goal to to
prove them that it was a good uh a good uh like uh option now uh so when i came uh when i started
to to pay my bills with it they were like okay now we are proud of you but before that it was
like just like you were like you're crazy like to to think that you can
pay your bills with your art that doesn't make sense on my family yeah i i totally get that um
you know even telling telling my family i pay bills with making content on the internet for
cartoons um is not a very easy thing to explain um But it's fun when you're successful at it
and you're like, yep, see?
I'm still doing it here.
But I finally could say,
look at this, look at now,
who is laughing now?
Right.
Good feeling.
So I wanted to move on. So let's talk about next steps for roly-poly you're talking about this um
this kind of claw machine game experience that you're you're going to be having do you guys have
an idea of what mint is going to be and i know that um you know pre-mint it's it's hard to mention
supply and amount especially in this market so i'm not going to sit here and badger you for that.
But I wanted to ask what details you have so far about when Mint's going to be happening and what that looks like.
Expect Mint this summer, at least.
But we can't put a date out yet.
Supply, the same.
Thanks for the understanding.
But things will be announced very soon
that's all I can say
we're doing the whitelist experience
so people get a whitelist for something
it's not that they just have a whitelist
for the rest of their lives
so expect something
very soon but we want to
first get the community
up and going, interact with
these people as well.
Yeah, me and Daniel will actually be in weekly community calls
with the people that have a whitelist already
and start doing like collaboration sessions
and actually having them, yeah, brainstorming with us
about certain traits in the collection
and parts of the story so you know if
you have a whitelist or you have like a ticket to our city then yeah come to our discord you know and
let's uh let's create something together with daniel well let's talk about that you guys do
have a discord live and that's where everybody can find out all the information. And that is that's in the bio of the account.
Yes.
So the Discord is still gated for the people that have a whitelist.
But we wanted to do that because we wanted to really allow people to be part of what we're creating, but not everyone.
So that's it's like, uh yeah we are really focusing on the
core community members right now or maybe i misspoke here yeah i think my nav will kill
our growth growth guy he will probably kill me for saying that so the discord is not closed and i'm
not sure if it's live yet so don't pin me me on that one, but it will be in the future.
And we want to just, like I said, we're going to create cool experiences for the people that support us early on and create stuff together.
Great.
So right now the best place to find information about Roly Poly and connect with the community would be the official Roly Poly account on X then, correct?
Yes, our x account and uh yeah obviously if you go to our website you find the links to our socials to uh also our personal socials as well so if you have a cool idea feel free to also drop
a dm in my personal or Daniel's personal account.
And the Discord will be, I will be on that right now, actually.
I will fix myself on how we are going to approach that very soon.
Yeah, I mean, there's nothing, I kind of like the slow cook approach by teams,
especially when it comes to Discord, because the minute you had like an open,
one, when a team kind of like launches and like the next day they have this open discord,
all it does is fill with bots and farmers and people saying,
you know,
when white list,
when men,
and you don't get an actual community experience.
Exactly.
Exactly.
so I,
I rock with the idea of saying,
Hey,
let's keep this kind of more tight knit.
Let's build our roots and foundation before we open this up to the masses,
to grow.
But, um, to grow. But,
but yeah.
So I guess everybody should be following roly poly should be fondling
Daniel.
And what's your handle,
Bob?
the,
the person that is linked to the Jumbotron,
the Bob chain,
not,
not the actual Bob chain,
because there's,
there's also an actual Bob chain that I always just interact with on X because they called Bob.
And I'm like, okay, I'm still the official Bob chain, you know, so.
Well, like, you know, you should get in on that.
You should be like, hey, you guys are using my name.
Cut my check.
What's going on?
I should start an L1 blockchain, like the side you know this is super easy do it in
your free time i mean now with gpt i can do anything i want right no we got dngpt he he
can build anything really damn oh man please daniel please do bleep bleep bleep bleep and give me L1 blockchain please
well we are coming
to the hour so I did want to
open it up so if anybody did have any final
questions please raise your hand if not
Daniel, Bob what final thoughts
do you want to leave with the community
today
Bob can go first this one today?
Bobby can go first in this one.
This is the
Bob cheerleader job.
I was opening it up
for the audience.
I think
that's
what I want to leave the audience with is that working with someone like Daniel really shows you that the sky is literally the limit as long as you have a sort of passion for something. very well seasoned team of different people with uh experience in marketing business uh arts design
storytelling um so the world that we're building like the the first novel is really just the the
start of a universe that we really want to expand upon you know and um like if you go to our website
the the roadmap and the vision map is still a lot of, there's a lot of question marks, but we're going to release our vision and the ideas very soon.
But the city we're building is really, yeah, there's buildings in a city, right?
And the city is not necessarily built by an individual but it's built by
the people within it because they decide like do we want to have a cinema do we want to have
a ice cream shop or do we want to have a mall you know to buy products from and i think that
mindset of not necessarily building without knowing what you want to build but really
interacting with the people in the city
and building a city from the ground up together. That is how we want to approach our community
and how we want to approach the projects because we want to listen to what people want to see in
our projects and in Roly Poly. And like I said, working with Daniel and the team has been just
amazing because we can create those
experiences and we can create those products so um yeah i just want to want to leave you with that
uh kind of motivation right
yeah and uh just like uh yeah we we have like, I think that mainly for people that aspire to be an artist, I
think we have a lot to say and a lot to connect with these people.
We want you to learn from the community and you want to create something really cool.
So I invite everyone to join the Discord that we are creating and the project to see, not just on the surface, it's not just like about K-pop,
you know, there is something behind this.
And I invite everyone to enjoy with us the process
and let's do something together that is pretty cool.
And we can learn from this.
Awesome.
Well, thank you guys so much for stopping by
and talking about your art
and talking about Roly Poly with us today.
Audience, make sure that you are following Roly Poly,
that you are following Bob,
that you are following Daniel
and make sure to turn on those noties
so that you can get more information
on their upcoming mint this summer
and to find out more details
on their claw machine experience.
And hopefully there's going to be like a little angel, abstract angel stuffy in there because that'd be so cute
guys make sure she has nice big fluffy lashes this is like your pfp right now is that like how
you want the blush to look like or yeah why not well usually we have we have our little um our
little pudgy angel so it's basically appster with little angel
wings and she has lashes on so if you guys want a roly-poly version of that yeah we we're already
90 there i think we have uh we have an appster roly-poly version already so uh yeah let's let's
do it yes let's do that that'd be so cute i need to see it now and it's on recorded space. So I got to peer pressure you to get that soon.
No pressure.
It's,
it's going to be,
it's going to be,
Daniel is already making it,
right?
Daniel,
I prompt you to make an,
an abstract angel pleasure right now.
Yeah,
bit,
bit.
Yeah,
sure.
Dan GPT has got it on lock.
All right. Thank you for having us and um yeah let's let's keep in contact and no for sure let's do i'd love to do another space you know like when you have more things going on with the claw machine
definitely want to learn more about that and especially when we're closer um to mint um looking
forward to learning more about the story and seeing it flesh out
more guys.
All right,
guys,
we'll catch you on the next one.
We'll be back here on Tuesday at noon.
Yeah.
12 PM EST with angel hour until then.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
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