We are at the verge of a new era. An opportunity for new ideas, activities and solutions. All combined on a networking platform: METAHIVE. Driven by the urge to create a space for creative exchange, METAHIVE will become the birth-place of a new league of web3 creators. The platform starts as an NFT project with two OG drops consisting of 33 and 333 original NFTs.
With METAHIVE, Moby Diggs mission is to create a network of builders, which enables the next 10.000 creatives to both participate in and create novel web3 experiences in order to fully reflect and enable exchange in this diverse ecosystem. In collaboration with Metadibs and Encase, the project is continuously evolving. The Munich based team consists of well experienced 3D artists, developers and project managers and creatives.
Developing a metaverse presents a team with multiple challenges. What is the overarching vision? What story do you tell? What are the unique selling points? And of course, how can these manifold ideas be implemented?
What will become an interactive platform, initially starts as an NFT project depicting the basis for everything which is yet to come. Planning an NFT concept with digital artworks that are as diverse and unique as possible, as well as optimizing a 3D building process, are problems to be solved. Also in a final step, when the large amount of complex 3D elements is rendered, a corresponding time planning has to be taken into account.
The Leitmotif behind the NFT concept and the upcoming metaverse platform is transhumanism. The philosophical thinking aims to extend the limits of human capabilities through the use of technological processes. So, like the idea of a diverse ecosystem where creative exchange takes place, the human mind and consciousness is to be transferred into the digital space. Through technology and exchange, creativity itself will also to be elevated to a new level.
The METAHIVE NFTs offer the key to this process: the artworks, in the form of futuristic plants, are seen as the incarnation of the soul. Like a plant, the soul is deeply rooted in the human body and can blossom and grow beyond itself under particularly favorable conditions. METAHIVE will provide this environment for creativity and diversity. Protected by the Soulseeker, a device that encases the natural organism, the spirits will be able to make a transition into the digital world.
Moreover, from the beginning, the Moby Digg team had the ambition to create handmade and unique works of art. The studio’s expertise in 3D modeling with the graphics suite Blender was to find its way into the creation process.
Within 24 hours, the two successive NFT drops were sold out. 33 and 333 NFTs were hand-sculpted with Blender, uniquely textured with flamboyant materials, and depicted statically as well as in motion.
In total, the Moby team developed three different plant species: Holy Solis, Mecha Sentinel, and Night Crawler. All of the organisms with their own special conceptual feature. Whilst due to the high solar energy, Holy Solis plants have increased their complexity so that new shoots developed in almost every direction , the Mecha Sentinels adapt to the digitalized living conditions and develop cables, nodes and other technical expressions instead of aerial roots. Also Night Crawlers have adapted to the changed environment: They are especially active when the world around them darkens. Only then does their beauty come to light, as they emit extraordinary, translucent spectra of color and light.
Each of these plant species is protected by a soulseeker. For this purpose, the Moby Digg team has developed four different devices with different rarity values. Based on hand-drawn sketches, a 3D model was created in Blender. All of the 33 NFTs were located in the same kind of case, the mythical soulseekers. For the larger drop, four additional rarities were designed, which were divided accordingly among the 333 NFTs. This created common, uncommon, rare and legendary pieces, which all follow the same structure, but also have differences when it comes to both look and extras.