it s a town that revels in the new, and right now, that town seems to be talking about nfts. now, as a reminder, nfts are a way of recording who owns what mainly digital art and music. frankly, the mind still boggles every time i remember that this image by beeple sold for almost $17 million at auction. so, i thought i d jump on the bandwagon. now, anyone can create, or mint an nft. in fact, i havejust minted myself, which was refreshing! that means that this mini animation now has a unique identifier which has been recorded on. ..the blockchain! an indisputable record of who owns it and who buys it afterwards. 2022 looks like being the year that hollywood sits up, takes notice and decides, yeah, i wouldn t mind a bit of all that!
and whether you like it or not, you are also your father. music builds. we did the final battle with the good versus evil, the demons versus the humans. it s got everything that you really want to work on as a cg artist. it has, you know, dragons and beasts and massive effects, and kung fu fighting. i mean, it s pretty much everything you could possibly want. you know, it s this insane action, it s this crazy action beats going on, dragons, and then it s like, oh yeah, but make it try and make it realistic at the same time . and so, that was sort of our challenge is to always try and, you know, as fantastical as it is, try and ground it a little bit as well and not not, yeah, not not push it too far in either direction and, you know, from an emotion standpoint, just trying to keep it that movement somewhat grounded in reality. and, you know, if you have got, you know, these two huge beasts
to spending years trying to get films made. and despite the rise of streamers like netflix and apple, he believes it s getting more and more difficult to secure money for independent and mid budget films. a movie like kramer v5 kramer, for instance, or any big, great 05car movies that we all love and cherish, today or at least in the last six years would never have been made in this climate, because it s simply not possible to raise the money for it. and if you do, it s an average time of 5 6 years to get it financed, because it s a complex operation and it s complex how it works. his next film, though, won t be financed through traditional means. with several other investors, niels has started nft studios a studio he believes can democratise film financing with tokens being minted and bought by an online community. when i heard about this, there was two aspects of it that was really, really interesting. one is that these are communities that very engaged in art and music and, yo
new york, i gave it tojim steinman, who wrote all those wonderful songs. i know that pearl, his daughter. the sadness of this is notjust to the fans who love the music and the stage shows and all that, but through the years, i have found meat loaf, or meat as he referred to himself, when you met him, he was very informal and very sort of how are you doing, nice guy, he was a kind, kind soul, and the saddest part of all is that the world has lost a kind man, part of all is that the world has losta kind man, and if part of all is that the world has lost a kind man, and if you asked him, hey, what you want is to call you, meat loaf? he would say, no, just call me meat. it was just a very sad thing, and i sent my present condolences to his family, pearl, his daughter, who is happily married, i know this has got to be devastating. we all wish them the best. , ,., , ., , devastating. we all wish them the best. , , ., , .,, best. absolutely. i mean, why was he our
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